Bay State Winter Games Returning to Berkshires

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The 2024 Bay State Winter Games Figure Skating Competition will return to the Berkshires for the 37th year Jan. 26-28 at the Williams College Lansing Champman Skating Rink in Williamstown.
 
Figure Skating
The competition will include over 400 performances from skaters representing the United States Figure skating Association and the Ice Sports Industry Skating program. All events will be held at the Williams College Lansing Chapman Skating Rink. These skaters will range in age from 5 to over 60 and represent communities from throughout Massachusetts as well as Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire & Rhode Island 
 
Skating Show
The show will feature skating performances from athletes who won a gold medal during competition events held earlier in the day on Saturday. The show will also include a performance by Berkshire County resident, John Michal Harden who is a New England Championship medalist. The show is open to the general public. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets will be available for sale on Friday evening from 7pm-9pm, all day Saturday an before the show at the Lansing Champman Skating rink located on the campus of Williams College.
 
Schedule:
 
Friday, Jan. 26
Competition 7pm-9pm
Practice Ice 9pm – 9:40pm
 
Saturday, Jan. 27
Practice Ice 6:30am-7:30am
Competition 8am – 6:30pm
Bay State Skate Show 7:30pm – 9pm
 
Sunday, Jan. 28
Practice Ice 6:30am-7:30am
Competition 8am – 8pm
 
Local participants include:
 
LAST FIRST US / IS TOWN STATE CLUB
Anderson Samantha USFS Lanesborough MA Christmas Brook FSC
Art Amelia USFS Williamstown MA Christmas Brook FSC
Benson Lukas USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Benson Madalyn USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Blair Rachael USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Boillat Emma USFS Clarksburg MA Christmas Brook FSC
Gabriel Emily USFS Pittsfield MA Christmas Brook FSC
Johnson Alaina USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Jones Bailey USFS Pittsfield MA Pittsfield Figure Skating Club
Juras Michela USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Marlee USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Colton USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Mila USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Kemp Anna USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Kopiec Ashley USFS Pittsfield MA Charter Oak FSC
Malone-Smith Katie USFS & ISI Hinsdale MA Christmas Brook FSC / Bay State Games SC
Merchant Aliza USFS Clarksburg MA Christmas Brook FSC
Miller Kayla USFS Williamstown MA Christmas Brook FSC
Moore Avery USFS Pittsfield MA Pittsfield Figure Skating Club
O'Leary Elliana USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Perry Morgan USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Piechowski Marcy USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Pinheiro Nicole USFS Winthrop MA North Shore SC
Robbins Sophia USFS Cheshire MA Pittsfield FSC
Shapiro-Van Dusen Penelope USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Shore-Sheppard Lara ISI Pownal VT Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink
Thurston Anna USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Wells-Vidal Ava USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
 
 

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Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2026 Absence Said Not to Cause 'Panic'

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — News this week that the Williamstown Theatre Festival will go dark again this summer has not yet engendered widespread concern in the town's business community.
 
"None of the members have reached out in panic," Williamstown Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sue Briggs said on Wednesday afternoon. "I'm really pleased.
 
"The rumor on the street has been this is what they need in order to come back and be a viable festival. … With that said, I have not had any real one-on-one conversations with business owners about it yet."
 
"It" was the announcement Tuesday, in the form of interviews reported in the Washington Post and Berkshire Eagle, that the WTF would not be staging any theatrical events in Williamstown in the summer of 2026 — just the second time since the Tony Award-winning festival has been absent from the summer scene since it was founded in 1955.
 
The first time was the summer of 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival returned for a scaled down 2021 season and staged four straight seasons that de-emphasized the kind of fully-staged productions of standards and new works that characterized the festival's first 65 years.
 
In 2021, the WTF's return from the COVID shutdown was marred by allegations of "dangerous working conditions."
 
Last summer, the festival hosted its most ambitious program since before the pandemic, including a Tennessee Williams play featuring Hollywood star Pamela Anderson, the world premiere of a drama written by a Tony-nominated playwright, and two events in North Adams, one of which was performed on the ice sheet at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink.
 
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