Copake Theatre Company (temporarily inactive) celebrated it's 5th year as a cutting-edge, professional theatre in the heart of Copake. Fiona Hutchison and John Viscardi founded the company in December of 2003 quickly establishing The CTC in the words of the Independent News theater critic, Bruce Hallenbeck, "as one of the most professional theatres to come along these parts in a long while!". The 2008/2009 season kicks off the Fall as the theatre's most ambitious season yet with 4 main productions - all comedies! - monthly staged readings and a playwriting competition for local high school students! So, please come out and see what everyone is talking about!

was originally the Ancram Grange Hall built in 1929.  It was transformed in 1972 by two opera lovers into a lovely small theatre with excellent acoustics.
Joan Arnold purchased the building in 2002 and started offering yoga classes, Alexander Technique workshops and theatrical events.  With the addition of Jim Paul as house manager in 2005, reading, workshops and dance have been offered.

Stage Works Theatre is in Hudson close to the Amtrak Train Station. The theatre opened in 1994 and offers plays throughout its May-October season, including a one-act play festival.

Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham features classic and contemporary American musicals in a 350 seat theatre in-the-round. During their May through Labor Day season, musicals for children are performed also.

Berkshire Theatre Festival is 78 years old, one of the first regional theatres in the United States and the longest running cultural organization in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Both the Main Stage and the Unicorn Theatre present quality productions, witnessed by the number of plays that moved to Broadway, the international list of playwrights and actors from Eve Le Gallienne and Buster Keaton to Calista Flockhart and Gene Hackman. Located in Stockbridge, MA, the Festival will more than repay your attention in the midst of 40,000 others present annually. During your visit look for the symmetry and lines of the Festival's 1888 Stanford White building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Shakespeare & Company was founded in 1978 by Tina Packer, its current artistic director and President, and is one of the larger Shakespeare Festivals in the country. The company purchased its 63-acre home with 23 buildings, one mile from Edith Wharton's The Mount, in Lenox in the early 1970s. Plans are under way to build a copy of the Rose Playhouse, Shakespeare's first theatre. During their 28 year history the company has produced almost all of Shakespeare's plays and, in addition, a host of contemporary plays. Its more than 50000 annual patrons also have enjoyed world premiers of William Gibson' Golda's Balcony and Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage. The Boston Globe has observed that the company "...continues to be one of the best troupes in Massachusetts".

Clarion Concerts of Columbia County resulted from the founding of the Clarion Music Society in 1957 by Thomas N. Morgan, philanthropist, and Newell Jenkins, conductor and musicologist. The Society was the first period instrument orchestra with regular performances in New York City. In 1981 Jenkins founded the Clarion Concerts which annually presents in the fall a series of Leaf Peeper Concerts. Sanford Allen, the current Music Director, continues to present early chamber music but also commissions a new work for each season.

Tannery Pond Concerts were founded in 1991 by Christian Steiner, one of the world's foremost photographers of musicians and a concert pianist. Six to seven chamber concerts are presented each season May and October in the 290 seat Tannery built by the Shakers in 1834. Tannery Hall is in Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, about 1.5 miles east of New Lebanon at Route 20 and Darrow Road. In previous years, concerts have featured Ben Heppner, Susan Graham, Jessye Norman, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic Octet.

Music Mountain founded by Jacques Gordon in 1930, seeks to provide excellent teaching and performance of chamber music, especially the string quartet literature. Its past programs have included the best new and established chamber musicians in the world. Performances are Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in Gordon Hall throughout the summer just outside Lakeville, Connecticut.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, designed by Frank Gehry, presents outstanding music, dance, theatre, cinema and lectures year round. Especially noteworthy are Summerscape, the Bard Music Festival (focusing on Edward Elgar in 2007) and the American Symphony Orchestra concerts under the direction of Leon Botstein.

Tanqlewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts was initiated from the Boston Symphony Orchestra's first performance in the Berkshires in 1936 and is the BSO's summer home. With the opening of The Shed two years later this summer festival has been continuous except for 1942-1945. The festival includes performance by and teaching for orchestra, composers, conductors and singers for ten weeks initiated annually by all singing Randall Thompson's Alleluia and concluded by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In between the world's best make chamber, symphonic, film, operatic, contemporary and jazz music of the highest quality.

Spencertown Academy Arts Center is located in Spencertown, a small village just north of Copake in Columbia County. The Academy presents concerts, film, performance art and readings in its 110 seat auditorium. Fine art and crafts are exhibited in two galleries. All is housed in a Greek revival building constructed in 1847 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Be sure to check the Academy's Calendar of Events.

Grey Fox Blue Grass Festival ... celebrates thirty-five years of Bluegrass for four days in the middle of July on the Walsh Farm in Oak Hill, New York. It has been nominated three times for the IBMA Event of the year. A full-length documentary about the festival entitled Bluegrass Journey has been shown on public television. Grey Fox introduces the best in Bluegrass on four stages: Main Stage, Masters Stage - top artists in an intimate setting, Family Stage and Dance Stage. Tent and RV camping are available on site. Motels, B&Bs and campgrounds are in the area.