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Playbill announced that Nicky Martin will be stepping down as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival after the 2010 season.
photo: Charles Giuliano
That’s certainly a disappointment. Only three seasons?
He’s quoted as saying his schedule has gotten too busy to continue. I wonder who will replace him. A woman, perhaps? Another regional artistic director? A young, freelance director?
Hmm.
Berkshire Eagle announced next year’s Tanglewood highlights on Friday:
July 3-4: James Taylor and Carole King perform as part of their world tour.
July 9: The eight-week BSO season opens with James Levine conducting Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
July 18: At the Shed, Arlo Guthrie and the Boston Pops under Keith Lockhart. At Ozawa Hall, Audra McDonald’s recital “The New American Songbook.”
June 26: Garrison Keillor and the “Prairie Home Companion” radio show.
July 16: Levine conducts a pairing of Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms.”
July 23: The BSO and guest singers perform Mozart’s comic opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio” in concert form under Levine.
July 24: Seiji Ozawa returns to the BSO podium in a Brahms program.
Aug. 8: Yo-Yo Ma presents a program of Asian music with his Silk Road Project.
Aug. 15: Oliver Knussen’s “Where the Wild Things Are” opera given in concert form by TMC students.
Aug. 29: The BSO season closes with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Kurt Masur.
We’re wondering if there will be any pop music this year…more programs to be announced in a few months.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 14. Information: www.tanglewood.org.
Thanks to The 12534 for posting this video and this video on art + antiques destination Hudson, New York.
Pottery Barn ’style expert’ Jeffrey Moss made a recent trip to Hudson to explore its farms, architecture, antique and curio shops, and watering holes.
We haven’t been to Hudson since the summer, but I’ll be there next Friday picking up Anuj at the Amtrak station. These pieces have inspired me to pop into some of my favorite shops like Foley & Cox for some browsing and fantasizing about my two-hundred-year-old Dutch colonial on fifty rolling acres…
Photo with Havens article on Hudson, The New York Times
Here’s a quick tour inside the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, Mass. led by general manager John Valente. The Beacon opens tonight with a midnight showing of Twilight: New Moon.
Unless we somehow get sucked into the Twilight mania in the next week, I’m guessing our first film at the Beacon will be Fantasic Mr. Fox or The Yes Men Fix the World.
The Berkshire Eagle’s got some video footage of Pittsfield’s new Beacon Cinema.
Now that the opening’s only a few weeks away, I can start guessing what our first movie will be….that new Nancy Meyers film starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin as exes who fall back in love? (update: that comes out Christmas Day. Damn.) The Road? Precious?
What will we do if all they offer are movies like that John Cusack end-of-the-world thing? Or Twilight: New Moon? Go and enjoy our pastries regardless?
This weekend is the 10th annual FilmColumbia Festival. The festival is one of the most highly anticipated cultural events of the county (that’s county, folks, not country). It was started in 2000 by the Chatham Film Club and is currently run by journalist and cinephile Peter Biskind. This year they’ve got over 30 screenings, panels, readings and parties.
Here’s a peak at some of the lineup:
- Precious, early Oscar buzz, starring Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. Look for a HUGE feature on it in this week’s NYTimes Magazine.
- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s last (half-completed) film, directed by Terry Gilliam. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law complete Heath’s role in the second half of the film.
- The Men Who Stare At Goats, starring George Clooney. What is this film? Is anyone as confused as I am?
- The Maid, this year’s Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance.
- The White Ribbon, the latest from Michael Haneke, one of my favorite foreign filmmakers.
- An Education, Dogme 95 meets Nick Hornby. Literally.
There’s also the Coen Brothers, Barack Obama, Queen Victoria and Doctors Without Borders.
Anuj and I had a great time last year – we saw a few films, including The Class, one of our favorites of the year.
Screenings for this year’s festival start tomorrow night. Go! (Or should I say, “Come!”)
