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Boeing Boeing at Barrington Stage
Comedy Takes Flight
By: - Jul 25th, 2024Now retired Julianne Boyd returns to Barrington Stage Company to direct the comedy/ farce Boeing Boeing. She has selected a dream team of BSC frequent flyers, Christopher Innvar as the scheming bachelor, Bernard, the nubile Mark H. Dold a visiting long lost friend Robert, and Debra Jo Rupp, a comedic national treasure as Bernard’s maid, Berthe.
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The Great American Mousical
The Legacy Theatre
By: - Jul 24th, 2024The plot is simple; a Broadway theater is about to be demolished while in the basement, a company of mice rehearses their own “musical.”
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A Streetcar Named Desire
New City Players near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jul 23rd, 2024New City Players' current professional production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" sizzles. The production runs through Aug. 4 in Island City Stage's blackbox theater. The company uses space and budget limitations to the production's advantage.
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Film at Lincoln Center Presents Mexican Films
A Spectacle Every Day
By: - Jul 21st, 2024Film at Lincoln Center and the Locarno Film Festival present “Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema,” a retrospective of Mexican cinema from the 1940s through the 1960s, to be from July 26 through August 8. With new restorations of many works rarely screened or some never before seen theatrically in the United States, and standout performances from the biggest stars.
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The Best of The Second City
Residency at Berkeley Rep for Storied Improv Troupe
By: - Jul 19th, 2024The vaunted Chicago-based troupe performs sketches, quick-hitters, and enough improvisation to display their fast reaction chops. Old skits are updated, and enough local references are integrated for the production to feel home grown. The cast of six operates black-box fashion, effectively and entertainingly employing mime to represent invisible props.
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Flamenco at Jacob's Pillow
Week Eight August 14 Through 18
By: - Jul 19th, 2024Week 8 of this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will feature beloved New York-based flamenco artists Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, who will perform at the Festival for the first time since 2002. Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca will appear for five days in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, from Wednesday, August 14 through Sunday, August 18. The program is a showcase for the work of Martín Santangelo and Bessie-award winning dancer and choreographer Soledad Barrio, and will feature their newest work, Searching for Goya (2023).
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Bert Stern Family Collection “Marylin Uncovered"
Exhibition at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox
By: - Jul 16th, 2024Bert Stern’s children, Trista and Bret, comment on the exhibition, “We are thrilled to bring our father’s iconic 1962 shoot with Marilyn Monroe back to vivid life at the beautiful Sohn Fine Art Gallery. Marilyn was our dad’s dream girl, a unique mix of actress, model and ‘American goddess’ (as he called her) that he never encountered before or after. He told us, ‘Stars die, but light goes on forever.’ Through the magic of photography, Marilyn Monroe is still reaching us with her light today.”
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An Adventure Story About My Temple Life
Memoir of a North Adams Based Daoist Monk
By: - Jul 16th, 2024At the age of 65,MIchael McGrath ascended a mountain China with a request to study Daoism at an ancient temple. The Abbott accepted him with skepticism predicting that he wold wash out in a month. He stuck it out for a year and after holidays with his family on Cape Cod, returned to the mountain several times. He has published 'An Adventure Story About My Temple Life What I learned, and What I Now Live.' It's a life affirming page turner.
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Accused!
The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective Trilogy is Complete With a Case Involving Terrorism
By: - Jul 15th, 2024London is under threat. One woman has been murdered and another killed in a bombing, with anarchists being implicated. Three intrepid female sleuths find evidence that suggests otherwise. Patricia Milton's script is literate and replete with revelations about social and political issues of the day.
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Grand Théâtre de Genève at Jacob's Pillow
Improvising Plan B
By: - Jul 15th, 2024Grand Théâtre de Genève arrived for the scheduled third week of the Jacob’s Pillow season. Sets for Noetic, which was to have its North American premiere, however, did not. With just two days to adjust the company pursued Plan B,
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Elevator Repair Service Creates a New Ulysses
Summerscape at Bard Presents Staged Novel
By: - Jul 15th, 2024Elevator Repair Service, an innovative theater producing group, presented a staged version of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Luma Theater at the Fisher Center as part of Bard’s Summerscape 2024 whuich commissioned the work.
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La Voix Humaine and Dido & Aeneas
Festival Opera Fine Production of Divergent Works
By: - Jul 14th, 2024Carrie Hennessey gives a sterling performance in the Francis Poulenc work, "La Voix Humaine," as a woman who talks to her lover on the phone while learning that she is losing him. Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is given a fine treatment as well, led by the chorus and orchestra.
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Video Master Bill Viola at 73
Early Work in Boston
By: - Jul 14th, 2024Bill Viola is remembered by Bostonians for his early installation "Room for Saint John of the Cross" at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He also created a video triptych for the Fulller Museum of Art. A champion was David Ross who hired him as an assistant at the Everson Museum in 1971. Ross later showed him at the ICA and Whitney Museum.
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Death, Let Me Do My Show
Rachel Bloom at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 12th, 2024Standup comedian, Rachel Bloom, is a really big deal. Her rom-com “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ran for four seasons on The CW with poor ratings but a solid fan base. She brought a standup piece “Death, Let Me Do My Show” to Williamstown Theatre Festival. The routine was filmed for future release on Netflix.
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Parsons Dance at Jacob's Pillow
Returns 25 Years Later
By: - Jul 12th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival welcomes the internationally- touring modern dance company Parsons Dance back to the Ted Shawn Theatre, 25 years after their last engagement with the festival in 1999.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith on Katherine Porter
An Appreciation from a Renowned Artist to Another
By: - Jul 11th, 2024Jaune Quick to See Smith responded to my posthumous interview with Katherine Porter. It was too long and detailed to post as a comment. It's a remarkable tribute from a renowned woman artist to another. Recently Jaune was given a retrospective by the Whitney Museum. I have had a long involvement with both of these artists.
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Artist Katherine Porter Broke Out in Boston
A Posthumous Interview
By: - Jul 11th, 2024In the late 1960s a new generation of artists revitalized the Boston art world. They created Studio Coalition the nation's first open studios event. Katherine Porter emerged with immediate recognition and success. She was shown twice in Whitney Biennials and exhibited in major galleries. Social concerns informed her work. She moved a number of times seeking a like minded community. We reconnected when for several years she lived in Vermont. In her final recent move she settled in Santa Fe.
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Dragon Mama at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Sara Porkalob in Solo Performance
By: - Jul 10th, 2024“Dragon Mama,” a one-woman show by Sara Porkalob, is but one of three staged productions in this season of the venerable Williamstown Theatre Festival. With a brief run it is presented on the black box Center Stage. It has been used only once preciously.
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South Pacific at Goodspeed Musicals
An Audience Favorite
By: - Jul 11th, 2024South Pacific is a show for romantics. It is one of my favorite shows and the audience’s cheers on opening night showed that they, too, loved it.
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Royal Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
First Visit to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 08th, 2024Both the Royal Ballet and Jacob’s Pillow were formed in 1931. There have been many interactions but in the current season the renowned company has visited the Berkshires for the first time. It is their only North American stop. Some five years of planning, fund raising, and logistics were entailed for this historic event.
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Mongolia Travelog
Distant, Exotic, and Exciting
By: - Jul 07th, 2024A nine-day tour reveals a complex and contrasting country geographically and politically. Diet, weather, and many cultural norms are extreme. Although on-the-ground costs can be quite reasonable, organized tours which tend to be expensive are highly recommended. It is a rewarding journey for the experienced and inquisitive traveler.
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Mystic Pizza
Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 10th, 2024You will recognize the tunes that are well integrated into the plot – “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Addicted to Love,” “I’m the Only One,” “Into the Mystic,” “Lost in Your Eyes,” “Smalltown” and “Never Gonna Give You Up,” among others.
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The Lifespan of a Fact
Do Facts Constitute Truth? Is Truth Objective and Unassailable?
By: - Jul 06th, 2024In this account of a true story, essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece about the suicide of Levi Pressley who jumped from the top of Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. Fact checking showed that D'Agata fabricated numerous but inconsequential details for the sake of style. The philosophical differences between the author and the fact checker provoke a thoughtful consideration of what constitutes truth. It's more complex than you might think.
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Evita
Rags to Riches and Glamor Foreshortened
By: - Jul 04th, 2024In this Weber/Rice musical biography, the charismatic and adulated Eva Peron insinuates herself into the highest level of Argentinian politics while in her 20s. Deploying an unusual device, an activist narrator, Che, skulks about and cynically undermines the public face of the title character.
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Experiments in Opera at HERE
New York Gets Four Delicious Mini Operas
By: - Jul 05th, 2024The world premiere of “Five Ways to Die” took place at HERE in New York. If the subject is “death,” it must be an opera. Tosa jumps to her death from the walls of Castel Sant'Angelo. Aida and her lover die in an airless Egyptian tomb. La Traviata coughs herself to death in a Parisian garret. Defying death, all these women sing marvelously. We suspend disbelief, carried away by gorgeous tunes. Experiments in Opera, a successful and innovative company, takes a different approach.
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