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Carew Travel invites you to join our cultural excursion to the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. For 18 years we have partnered with the Theatre Development Fund in offering theatre- rich tours around the world and Tdf has endorsed our annual trip to the Berkshires. This trip includes reserved seats for three performances, coach transportation from New York city, daily breakfast, 3 dinners, 4 lunches, museum admissions and 3 nights accommodations in Williamstown.
INTRODUCTION
Visit the picture-perfect Berkshire towns where you will have tickets for Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. At the Williamstown Festival you will have a backstage tour, and see a performance, followed by a “talk back” discussion. Tour The Clark Institute, The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Gilded Age Museum, and FDR’s Hudson Valley home and Presidential Library.
$50 discount if you book by June 15th
CALL 1-800-621-1113 for brochures and reservations.
1. Tuesday, August 18
Meet our guide in midtown Manhattan (30th Street @ 7th Avenue) at 9:30am and depart aboard a private motor coach to Williamstown, the quintessential Berkshire village. After lunch, we settle in at the Williams Inn. This evening our welcome dinner is at our hotel. We have tickets at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, for Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms. Tony-nominated director Maria Aitken directs a cast including Tony-nominee Mary Beth Hurt, Simon Jones and Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays in this charming and heart-felt 1960s comedy about an endearingly eccentric group of English teachers in Cambridge whose insatiable quest for knowledge has masked their secret longings for passion, romance, and true happiness. British playwright Simon Gray wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television. (Lunch) (Dinner)
2. Wednesday, August 19
After breakfast at the hotel visit the renowned Clark Institute to see the special summer exhibit, Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, which explores the visual and thematic interests shared by these two pioneers of twentieth-century painting. The exhibit examines Arthur Dove's role in Georgia O'Keeffe's early practice and O'Keeffe's subsequent impact on Dove's work. You’ll have time to enjoy the extensive permanent collection best known for the many examples of Renoir, Monet, Degas, and American artists, including Frederick Remington and Winslow Homer. In the afternoon visit the Norman Rockwell Museum, one of the trip’s perennial favorites, to see original art from the Museum’s noted collections displayed for the 40th anniversary celebration. We have dinner before our second included performance at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Seiji Ozawa Hall. The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater . (B/L/D)
3. Thursday, August 20
This morning we go backstage at the Williamstown Theatre, to learn more about the history and productions of the theatre. The first season of WFT in 1955 was an immediate success, playing nightly to packed houses. Since then, it has met with non-stop critical acclaim. After the tour we visit the featured exhibit, Prendergast in Italy at the Williams College Museum of Art, one of the finest college art museums in the country. The exhibit, which will travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, traces the footsteps of Maurice Prendergast as he painted his way through Italy in 1898-1899 and through Venice again in 1911.
After lunch we tour the Gilded Age Museum at Ventfort Hall. This imposing Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1893, built for the sister of J. P. Morgan, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ventfort Hall was one of the approximately seventy-five so-called “Cottages” built in Lenox in the last century when the village became a popular Gilded Age resort. The Museum interprets the great changes that occurred in American life, industry, and society during the nineteenth century. On display is an extraordinary exhibit, featuring 59 stunningly beautiful miniature “fashion models” that portray the history of women’s fashion from 1855 to 1914.
After dinner, we go to Jacob’s Pillow for our third performance. Nestled in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow, widely recognized as the "mecca" of dance. More than 50 dance companies from all over the world perform at the annual Festival on the 163-acre National Historic Landmark site. We have tickets for a performance of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. In this exclusive Pillow engagement, the superb dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet perform a passionate varied program. A post show talk will enhance the performance. (B/L/D)
4. Friday, August 21
We check out of the hotel and travel to Rhinebeck where we have lunch before our tour of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum. Designed by FDR himself, it is the first presidential library and the only one ever used by a sitting president. The Museum offers permanent and changing exhibitions. We will have a guided tour of the Homewood, the FDR’s birthplace where he lived and entertained royalty as a President and returned to rest in the Rose Garden. After the tour we continue to New York City and anticipate arriving at approximately 6:30pm. (B) (L)
This engaging experience includes:
- Coach transportation from New York
- Coach at disposal throughout tour
- 3 nights accommodations at Williams Inn in Williamstown, MA
- Breakfast daily; 3 dinners; 4 lunches
- Tickets for three performances:
- Tanglewood; Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Jacob’s Pillow
- Backstage tour and performance talks
- Admissions to: Clark Art Institute, Norman Rockwell Museum,
- Gilded Age Museum, Williams College Museum, FDR Home and Library
- On site services of Carew Travel tour escort
PROGRAM PRICES
Per person (double occupancy) from New York: $1499
Single Supplement: $185.00 (based on a minimum of 15 people)
$50 discount if booked by June 15th
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