West Stockbridge – Escape the ordinary and dive into the groove of the summer at The Foundry, the Berkshires leading multi-disciplinary arts venue/ listening room! A sneak peak of what awaits you: underground tropical punk, bilingual circus clowns, a 71st generation kora player, multi award-winning international physical theatre, and an undefinable gender-bending creative explosion sing-a-long! June leads the way with…

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West Stockbridge’s performing arts venue, The Foundry, has spent the start of 2024 plotting out a season of unmissable music, comedy and theatrical performances very different from the lineup of any other Berkshire theater. From drag shows to jazz fusion, from stand up to powerful plays, catch all the highlights below. Tipsy Carol’s Valentine Massacre…

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West Stockbridge – The Foundry is thrilled to announce a wide variety of events for the month of October. Coming up on the 15th is Gypsy Layne & Co., a local burlesque company that combines dynamic dancing with live singing and bawdy humor, keeping the legacy of burlesque and vaudeville alive. Berkshire-based storyteller Mary Jo Maichack…

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West Stockbridge, MA –  Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik and collaborative pianist Max Levinson will play a recital of music at The Foundry Sunday, March 6th at 3:00pm. With a “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique” (The New York Times), Yevgeny Kutik has captivated audiences worldwide with an old-world sound that communicates a modern intellect. Praised for his technical precision…

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West Stockbridge – In January, The Foundry in West Stockbridge temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution amidst the rise of the Omicron Variant. Shutting down was a huge financial hardship, but a responsible move to action for everyone’s safety. The dire moment made it necessary to launch a GoFundMe for the venue to keep from…

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West Stockbridge, MA – Old friends, Cady Huffman (Tony Award winning actress for The Producers) and Mary Ann McSweeney (award winning jazz Bassist, who recently made her onstage Broadway debut in Girl From the North Country) come together in It Was A Very Good Year to investigate music during a pandemic. Combining voice with bass, and whatever else strikes their fancy, the…

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West Stockbridge, MA – After a successful 2020 summer/fall season pivoting to socially distanced outdoor programming, The Foundry in West Stockbridge has lined up open-air performance every weekend of June through August on The Foundry Green. Music, theater, and dance every weekend fulfills the venue’s mission to offer a platform of diverse, unique artists. Over…

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West Stockbridge, MA – The Foundry is delighted to announce that in January 2021 it welcomes community centered artmaker, dramaturg, playwright, poet and performer Micah Rosegrant for a month-long residency at its performing arts space and incubator for new work in the center of West Stockbridge, MA. Listed as one of “13 Theater Workers You…

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West Stockbridge, MA – During the entire month of March, The Foundry welcomes a multi-media exhibition featuring 30 visual and performing artists all under the age of 30 for the fourth annual Berkshire 30under30 Festival, 30under30:4. A wide variety of visual artists will provide a spread of work that will be on display in the gallery…

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West Stockbridge, MA – Diana Weymar’s Tiny Pricks Project is set to come to The Foundry in West Stockbridge this winter season. The Tiny Pricks exhibit, “Tiny Pricks Project: Empower and Reclaim.” will run at The Foundry from December 7, 2019-January 21, 2020. (Martin Luther King weekend.) During the holiday weekend The Foundry will create a…

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Writing & Performing the Monologue Friday mornings nine to noon September 6 – October 4 Accessing an interior life, and giving voice to that life in a way an audience can believe it it, is the art of the monologue. In this workshop, you will listen to and practice writing the kind of monologues that…

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