Tickets on Sale Now for the Adams Theater’s 2024 Season

ADAMS, Mass. — Tickets are available now for most upcoming shows, with more to be added in the coming weeks.

As usual, the Adams Theater strives to make tickets affordable, and most shows are in the $25 range, with some shows as low as $10. 

A special pre-season event to appreciate donors to the theater's first Annual Fund will kick off at the DiMenna Center in NYC on April 20; then, all the action is back in Adams, with Willi Carlisle, a folk singer who has performed at Freshgrass in past years, opening the season. 

Get more information and purchase tickets at adamstheater.org/present.

2024 Season

Two Piano Journey Benefit Concert

Saturday, April 20, 7 PM

Two Piano Journey, who performed at the 2022 fundraiser, join us again for a New York City concert and reception.

Willi Carlisle - Critterland

Friday, May 24, 7:30 PM

Willi Carlisle is a poet and a folk singer for the people, but his extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn't about high falutin' pontificatin'; it's about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. 

Liz Glazer Comedy

Sunday, May 26, 7:30 PM

Liz Glazer began her career as most standup comedians do: as a tenured law professor. Then, she gave it all up to do comedy, where her material draws from her own life as a lesbian, a rabbi's wife, and a former lawyer.

The Majesty of the Berkshires Drag Pageant

Friday, May 31, 7 PM

Drag is BACK at the Adams Theater on May 31! We're proud to present the return of the Majesty of the Berkshires Pride Pageant, a colorful celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community with a face-off to become the Berkshires' reigning queen. 

Robert Frost: This Verse Business

Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2

For nearly fifty years, Robert Frost "barded" around the country charming audiences with his celebrated verse and rascally sense of humor. Played by Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue's Detective Medavoy and a 1971 grad of nearby Williams College), Frost's great wit and poetry are heard afresh in the award-winning one-man play Robert Frost: This Verse Business.

Tiny Glass Tavern

Workshop & Concert - Friday, June 7, Workshop at 5 PM, Concert at 7 PM

Tiny Glass Tavern is a cross-genre music ensemble that offers tastes of different styles of music to curious audiences in an intimate concert setting. 

Harvest and Rust - A Neil Young Experience

Saturday, June 8, 7:30 PM

It's hard to represent the wide-array of Neil Young's influential material in one show, but that's exactly what Harvest & Rust does. The beloved local cover band makes its official Adams Theater debut with a special unplugged show!

Misty Blues Roadhouse Revival Gospel Blues

Saturday, June 15, 7:30 PM.

Gina Coleman's legendary blues band returns for 2024! Critically acclaimed, Misty Blues plays original and traditional blues with hints of jazz, soul, funk and tent revival gospel.

Marty & Charlie Nadler

Father-son Duo Comedy (Special Father's Day Event) - Sunday, June 16

A Father's Day show with longtime comedy writer Marty and touring comedian Charlie Nadler, father-and-son funny men who often perform together. Call it a family business, if you will. 

Cheshire Opens Tree Festival, Clarksburg Children Sing

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
12:28PM / Monday, December 02, 2024

Santa arrives in Cheshire to lead the parade to the tree lighting. 

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The town center was alive with holiday cheer on Sunday evening as Santa Claus led a brigade of hay rides from the Festival of Trees to the Christmas tree lighting.

Cheshire was one of three North Berkshire communities on Sunday that marked the beginning of the holiday season with tree lightings and events.

The third annual festival, which opened on Sunday, showcases more than 70 decorated trees from local businesses and town departments. It has grown yearly, with 32 trees in the first year and 53 in the second year.

DPW Director Corey McGrath said the event exceeded expectations and the camaraderie between town departments made it easy to plan.

"It falls into place," he said. "… you put it out there, you build it, and they come."

McGrath sais when he started the event, there were going to be 13 town committee trees to match the windows of the Cheshire Community House's main room "and they said 'No, go big.'"

"That's what we've got now," he said. "Through the whole month, it will just be endless people all day."

The evening began at the tree show with live holiday music and adorned greenery around every corner.  Santa arrived in a firetruck and attendees were transported to the Old Town Hall for the Christmas tree lighting, later returning to the Community House for refreshments.

Town Administrator Jennifer Morse said businesses and departments called to reserve trees donated by Whitney's Farm and voters will choose a winner by the end of the festival. The best in show will get a free tree from the farm next year.

There was also a raffle to benefit the Recreation Committee.

"It’s open all the way until the 29th," Morse said. "So people are welcome to come in at any point [during open hours] and look at it."

Selectwoman Michelle Francesconi said planning has been "really smooth."

"I think that the town employees and volunteers have all kind of settled in now that it is the third year of the event and the festive atmosphere starts the week of Thanksgiving when all of the trees start getting set up and Christmas music is playing in town offices," she explained.

"There is so much interest that we have more interest than we have space for the trees so, at some point in time we'll be pretty full but I think that the community is anticipating the event now every year and the word is spreading."

She added that there is a lot of interest in tree theming and that volunteers and businesses are enthusiastic about creating something new and exciting.

The tree at Old Town Hall was donated by Youth Center Inc. and a child was selected to help Santa light it.

"Differences are always put aside when it comes to something like this," McGrath said.

Adams also hosted carriage rides around the downtown, a visit with Santa Claus in the Town Common's gazebo and hot cocoa and candy from the Adams Lions Club. The tree was lighted about 4:30.

Santa, or one of his helpers, was also in Clarksburg, above, and in Adams.

In Clarksburg, preschoolers and kindergartners from school serenaded the crowd at annual Christmas tree lighting at Peter Cooke Memorial Town Field.

More than 100 people turned out to welcome Santa Claus as he arrived by fire engine and cheer as he threw the switch to illuminate the tannenbaum and get the season going in the town of 1,600.

 

The scene then shifted to the park's gazebo, where the youngest pupils from the town school — joined by a few first-graders — sang "Must Be Santa" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."

 

Then it was time for the main purpose of the season: giving to others.

 

The Clarksburg Veterans of Foreign Wars once again distributed checks to local non-profits.

 

The VFW chapter distributed $10,250 that it raised over the past year from a mail campaign and its annual golf tournament.

 

The biggest beneficiary was the Parent-Teacher Group at the elementary school, which received $4,000. Other groups benefiting from the VFW program included the cancer support groups AYJ Fund and PopCares, the Drury High School band, the St. Elizabeth's Rosary Society, the Clarksburg Historical Commission, town library and Council on Aging.