Shakespeare & Company presents Celebrating Jewish Plays, an immersive weekend of staged readings held over the holiday weekend today through Sunday at its Lenox, Mass., campus.

Each fall, the Hudson Valley Dance Festival transforms the Historic Catskill Point warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River into a theater, where dancers perform in support of those living with HIV and AIDS.

Finnish power-fiddle duo Teho brings its blend of traditional Finnish fiddling, Norwegian halling, Swedish polska, bebop, western swing, and contemporary folk music to the Foundry in West Stockbridge, Mass., tonight at 7:30pm.

Experience the heat, energy, and passion of flamenco without leaving New York State at the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival. Now in its eighth year, the festival brings world-class dancers and musicians to the area for a celebration of this living art form.

New York singer and producer Jamie Krasner aka james K and Irish musician Maria Somerville bring their dreamy, ambient sounds to the Clark in Williamstown, Mass., tonight at 7pm.

To fully appreciate “A Beautiful Noise - the Neil Diamond Musical,” playing at Proctors through Sunday, you have to create a no-judgment zone.

If you want to experience a good play written by a potentially great playwright rush to Cohoes Music Hall before “The Comeuppance” closes on Sunday.

Paula Vogel’s newest work “Mother Play: a play in five evictions” confirms the theory that if American playwrights did not suffer childhood family dysfunction there would be no drama on our stages.

Directors Beatrice Minger, who also is the writer, and co-director Christoph Schaub share credits on the prize-winning feature E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea. Using an unusually low-emotion approach to storytelling, the film recounts several decades in the life of a special house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the south of France.

As predicted, a lack of funding at the state and federal levels are hurting local not-for-profit organizations. Just as problematic are the increases for material needed for theatrical productions and the much higher costs for utilities.