The Berkshire Playwrights Lab is the area's only theater dedicated exclusively to encouraging, developing, and presenting new plays. Join them as they celebrate their fifth season

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Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.
The Audience breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.

From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.

The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries.

"★★★★★! Funny and truthful, goodhearted, spiky, full of suprises. I loved every minute." The Times

A global revolution bringing the world's greatest art exhibitions to downtown Great Barrington!

EXHIBITION will feature the world's foremost upcoming art exhibitions, creatively captured in HD. This major new cinema event series will capture and explore major world exhibitions bringing a wealth of artistic masterpieces to a broader audience than ever before via high-tech digital cinema technology. The event films won't just cover the exhibition's paintings: important questions will be also asked and answered.

What lies behind the exhibition creatively and technically?

What does this particular collection of paintings and objects reveal about the artist or the particular historical period?

What do we learn about the presenting institution?

These will be wonderful records of extraordinary exhibitions and first-rate biographies of artists. The event films will combine sensitively shot material about the artist and period, filmed both at the exhibition and on location.

Each one runs between 90 and 120 minutes.

EXHIBITION is a new theatrical series of events, bringing the worlds greatest art exhibitions to cinema screens worldwide. EXHIBITION will feature the worlds foremost upcoming art exhibitions, creatively captured especially for the big screen. The EXHIBITION series begins with a career-encompassing collection of the works of Edouard Manet on exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in April.

This second event film is a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest number of Edvard Munch's works ever, co-hosted by the National Museum and the Munch Museum in Oslo in June.

Each Event Film, hosted by art historian Tim Marlow, will go beyond the gallery with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

A fun and lively evening co-produced and hosted by Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson (Criminal Minds). A panel including Karen Allen (Indiana Jones), Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Michel Gill (House of Cards), Marin Mazzie (Tony Nominee), Debra Jo Rupp (That 70's Show) and Linus Roache (Law & Order) will share their stories, observations and thoughts about the challenges women face in the entertainment industry. Plus a sneak peak of WAM's November Main Stage Production and, in keeping with WAM's double philanthropic mission, the announcement of the women's organization that will be the beneficiary for their November production.

WAM Theatre is a theatre company based in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and the Capital Region of New York State. Inspired by the book 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide' by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM Theatre was founded in 2009 by professional theatre artists Kristen van Ginhoven and Leigh Strimbeck. WAM's philanthropic mission is two-fold; first, producing theatrical events for everyone, with a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and girls; second, to donate a portion of the proceeds from those events to organizations that benefit women and girls. WAM has donated over $7000 to its beneficiaries by creating professional theatre for everyone that benefits women and girls.

* Panel participants subject to availability

The Berkshire Playwrights Lab is the area's only theater dedicated exclusively to developing new plays. The Lab offers audiences the unique and provocative opportunity to share in the dramatic evolution of premiere works. This summer at the Mahaiwe the Lab will present one of its strongest seasons yet of plays in development.

Four women at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious musical parody set to classic tunes from the '60s, '70s and '80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles! See what millions of women worldwide have been laughing about for over 10 years!

It's the Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change! ¨

One of the country's top comedians and a New York Times bestselling author, Rita Rudner is also an award-winning television personality, screenwriter, playwright, Broadway dancer, and actress. A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a 2,000-plus show run in Las Vegas, she has sold more than 1 million tickets and become the longest-running solo show in the history of Sin City. She was named Las Vegas Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row.

A global revolution bringing the world's greatest art exhibitions to downtown Great Barrington!

EXHIBITION will feature the world's foremost upcoming art exhibitions, creatively captured in HD. This major new cinema event series will capture and explore major world exhibitions bringing a wealth of artistic masterpieces to a broader audience than ever before via high-tech digital cinema technology. The event films won't just cover the exhibition's paintings: important questions will be also asked and answered.

What lies behind the exhibition creatively and technically?

What does this particular collection of paintings and objects reveal about the artist or the particular historical period?

What do we learn about the presenting institution?

These will be wonderful records of extraordinary exhibitions and first-rate biographies of artists. The event films will combine sensitively shot material about the artist and period, filmed both at the exhibition and on location.

Each one runs between 90 and 120 minutes.

EXHIBITION is a new theatrical series of events, bringing the worlds greatest art exhibitions to cinema screens worldwide. EXHIBITION will feature the worlds foremost upcoming art exhibitions, creatively captured especially for the big screen. The EXHIBITION series begins with a career-encompassing collection of the works of Edouard Manet on exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in April.

The second event film is a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest number of Edvard Munch's works ever, co-hosted by the National Museum and the Munch Museum in Oslo in June.

This third exhibition takes place at the National Gallery in London where audiences will see a unique perspective on the masterpieces of Johannes Vermeer.

Each Event Film, hosted by art historian Tim Marlow, will go beyond the gallery with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare's celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC's Hustle) takes the title role.

Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre's recent production of Hamlet.