• Performance: ReWritten

    Melville's Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives, work, and remaining letters, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance, live music, visual art, projection, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams…

  • Performance: ReWritten

    Melville's Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives, work, and remaining letters, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story…

  • Lecture and Film Screening: Professor Michael Hoberman and the film “Call Us Ishmael,” directed by Dr. David Shaerf

    Melville's Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Sunday, September 5, 3 to 6 pm Michael Hoberman, an American literature professor at Fitchburg State University, will make his case that Melville is an ideal writer for people who describe themselves as skeptical romantics. His talk highlights his own path to Melville’s writing, and it will also offer a brief discussion of how he teaches…

  • ReWritten Returns to Arrowhead

    Melville's Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Friday through Sunday, July 22, 23, 24 and July 29, 30, 31 7:30 pm ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives, work, and remaining letters, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance, live music, visual art,…

  • ReWritten Returns to Arrowhead

    Melville's Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Friday through Sunday, July 22, 23, 24 and July 29, 30, 31 7:30 pm ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives, work, and remaining letters, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance, live music, visual art,…

  • paper chairs and The Berkshire County Historical Society present “Poor Herman”

    Herman Melville’s Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure in us all. Doss originally came to Arrowhead in 2017 to perform the play as a staged reading. Seven years later she presents a fully staged performance with an all female…

  • paper chairs and The Berkshire County Historical Society present “Poor Herman”

    Herman Melville’s Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure in us all. Doss originally came to Arrowhead in 2017 to perform the play as a staged reading. Seven years later she presents a fully staged performance with an all female…