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    Tanglewood - Very clean restrooms - 8/31/2025

    Tanglewood

    4.4(152 reviews)
    3.2 mi
    $$

    Lenox, MA - the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a top destination in the…read moreBerkshires, Tanglewood is a must-do experience in the area IMO. The grounds are beautiful to explore, and you get to hear performances by world class musicians, while enjoying a picnic, if you wish! They always have a great lineup of classical as well as popular artists. I go regularly in the summers for concerts, and usually sit in the hall, but this time I enjoyed a wonderful concert on the lawn with my extended family. People really go all out setting up their picnics! Definitely get there a couple of hours early if you want to snag a prime and shady spot, especially if it's a popular artist. (Lawn tix are free for kids under 18!) You can bring your own food and drinks, or there are dining options on premises, and you can even order a picnic-to-go in advance online. Bring all the accoutrements to make your setup as comfy as possible - lawn chairs, picnic blankets, cooler, shade umbrella, misting fan, maybe a candelabra lol. The lawn is beautifully kept and lush & green. On this occasion we saw the powerhouse quartet of Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, and Antoine Tamestit performing an all-Beethoven program. The music was transcendent and the weather was luckily perfect, and it was a pleasurable way to spend an afternoon. Again, I stipulate arriving 1-2 hours early, more if you want time to tour the sprawling grounds properly. There will be a traffic jam leading up to the parking lot, and parking can take a while (though very organized). If the main lot is full, it might take another 5-7 minutes to walk to the gate from the parking field across the street.

    This morning we arrived early for the Saturday rehearsal of the Sunday concert. It was magnificent,…read morehearing Berlioz' "Symphonique Fantastique" and the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2. The shed is a comfy, brilliantly resonant arena to enjoy the musical experience. The rehearsal, of course, may include repetition, incomplete performance and some starting ands stopping. That said, it nonetheless offers glorious insight into the making of classical music. And importantly, if it's raining, it's where you stay dry. The Tanglewood lawn is famous, and justly so. It is beautifully kept, it's a lot of giant shade trees under which you'll find hundreds of people enjoying pic pics as they watch and listen to the music on good screens with terrific outdoor speakers. The Saturday morning rehearsals are not nearly as crowded as the concerts, so our photos show how much room there for everyone (little ones are welcome outdoors, too). Bring your own picnic or buy snacks on site (you can also purchase rather expensive seated meals as well). There's a beer garden if you prefer alcoholic beverages like beer, wine and cocktails. Finally there's a cute gift shop on premises for Tanglewood-logo items. Lastly, our small complaint. Tanglewood is not inexpensive. It's not necessarily out of line compared to other summer musical events, but concert tickets can run well over $100 (less for the lawn, of course). Our three rehearsal tickets in the shed were $56 each with as $27 handling fee (what that is). That seems a bit excessive and may keep some people away, though again lawn seats are less pricey. That's our opinion, anyway.

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    Tanglewood - Before the concert

    Before the concert

    Tanglewood - Funky seats off to the side.

    Funky seats off to the side.

    Tanglewood - End of summer fest - 8/27/2025

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    End of summer fest - 8/27/2025

    Shakespeare & Company

    Shakespeare & Company

    3.9(22 reviews)
    4.4 mi

    Sense and Sensibility was THE worst production I have ever seen in my 52 years of theatre!…read more Atrocious! Shame - always have had marvelous experiences here. Producer/director failure. Only one actor in drag? Confusing half ( almost ) funny; half serious. Two roles per actor! And no scenery changes- apart from the imaginary piano forté. Utter disaster.

    First time attending this unique & beautiful outdoor theatre. And maybe my last time too…read more Though I haven't read or attended any Shakespeare plays since 12th grade I am fairly certain Shakespeare would be rolling over in his grave had he witnessed the butchering of this Classic! What the He** was that? This director turned a classic into garbage by inserting his view of modernizing the story, the costumes, the music - everything. I can tell you it was difficult to not walk out before the end of this performance. With respect to the hard working professional actors we did not until 3-5 minutes left in the show when it further fell apart and we just said NO MAS! I would to try this again but it will have to be a non Shakespeare play. Oh and BTW, the ticket seller said that this play was really good & funny. Really? Maybe if your CBD was laced with something. Overall not an enjoyable evening and surely a waste of $90. Too bad. You win some & you lose some. I put this one in the loss column.

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    Shakespeare & Company - Outside theatre

    Outside theatre

    Shakespeare & Company - A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Dell at The Mount

    A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Dell at The Mount

    Shakespeare & Company - The Tempest in The Roman Garden Theatre

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    The Tempest in The Roman Garden Theatre

    The Fitzpatrick Main Stage & The Unicorn Theatre

    The Fitzpatrick Main Stage & The Unicorn Theatre

    2.0(1 review)
    4.9 mi

    The Skin of Our Teeth left me wondering what Thornton Wilder, the playwright was smoking or…read moretripping on. It is inconceivable to me that this play, which begins with the Ice Age and forwards 5000 years could have won the Pulitzer Prize (the pullet surprise) for literature in 1943. We meet the Maggie Antrobus (Harriet Harris) and George Antrobus (Danny Johnson) and their maid Sabina (Ariana Venuri). References to the Rape of the Sabine Women and Lilith, the eternal temptress, are there to tempt Mr. Antrobus. The play includes sexual politics and Oedipal confrontations. The first act seems most relevant to our time with climate change when in August, the inhabitants of Excelsior, NJ experience the effects of an advancing glacier. Mrs. Antrobus castigates Sabina for allowing the fire to go out. (Does this sound similar to scientists' reactions to our current government officials?) The family including their son Henry (Marcus Gladney, Jr.), originally named Cain complete with a mark on his forehead, and their daughter Gladys (Claire Saunders) survive freezing temperatures in Act I, a flood of Biblical proportions in Act II along with the animals in an ark, and a devastating war in Act III. Perhaps in the last scene, which repeats the beginning of the play, Wilder is trying to say that these cataclysmic cycles go on and somehow mankind survives. However, this screwy plot with Mr. George Antrobus inventing the wheel and lever as a dinosaur and woolly mammoth take the stage with them in Act I set the tone for a totally improbable evening. Casting ignores race, I guess as a nod to the continuance of mankind.

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    The Fitzpatrick Main Stage & The Unicorn Theatre
    The Fitzpatrick Main Stage & The Unicorn Theatre

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