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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
A Catalogue Review
By: - Aug 22nd, 2026This summer the Cape Ann Museum reopened after extensive renovation. The occasion is marked by the blockbuster exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea curated by Eliza Phillips who serves as editor of a handsomely illustrated, scholarly catalogue.
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Hamlet at Shakespeare & Company
Best of the Bard
By: - Aug 20th, 2026The character of Hamlet, the tragic Prince of Denmark represents one of the great roles in the canon. Brooding, melancholy, unhinged and bent on revenge for the murder of his father he is both sympathetic and not. He’s an early prototype of the modern anti-hero.
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Summer Theatre Reading
Including New Sondheim Bio
By: - Aug 21st, 2026Florida Theater On Stage’s summer reading list worth for a few evenings encompasses three looks at our venerated Stephen Sondheim including a fresh off the press biography. Plus we dissect a detailed look at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s evolution from play to film, plus a look at the bloodiest plays of the early 20th Century, plus a newly prefaced edition of Raisin in the Sun with post-script analysis, and a collection of in-depth interviews with theater critics of the 20th and 21st Century.
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Other Desert Cities
Bridge Across the Pond Theatre in South Florida
By: - Aug 20th, 2026In its third mounting, Bridge Across the Pond Theatre presents a strong production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, Other Desert Cities. The production runs through Aug. 30 at Empire Stage's intimate black box theater in Ft. Lauderdale. The play takes place in 2004 in Palm Springs, Calif. and an epilogue is set in Seattle several years later.
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Martha Graham at Jacob's Pillow
Centennial Tour of Her Company
By: - Aug 17th, 2026The centennial tour of the Martha Graham Company reached Jacob's Pillow where it has deep roots. The company is custodian and curator of the 181 works she created. The program in four parts presented vintage and new works created recently for the company. Graham is remembered today as the greatest master of modern dance.
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Bibliomania Plays Film at Linbcoln Center
Award-winning Chronovisor Crowns the Festival
By: - Aug 19th, 2026Film at Lincoln Center presents Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor, a 15-film repertory series running from August 28 through September 3, 2026. The festival preludes the release of Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s thriller Chronovisor with a program exploring cinema centered on the texts stored in reading rooms, research facilities, and libraries.
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Come From Away at Ivortyton
Reminder of Bssic Humanity
By: - Aug 19th, 2026Twenty-five years ago next month, the unimaginable happened. Two passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Towers, another into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Ohio.The world stood still for days in shock and horror. We learned many people demonstrated enormous acts of courage and kindness. One of those acts of kindness occurred after 28 jumbo jets enroute to the US from Europe were told to land at the airport in Gander, Newfoundland. US air space was closed.
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Cannibals of McGower County at Theatreworks
Well Acted but Tough to Watch
By: - Aug 19th, 2026The acting is terrific; the production values are great and yet The Cannibals of McCower County is a play I probably will never see again. Why? I find it difficult to watch a character who relishes in manipulation of people as well as emotional and physical cruelty. A character with no redeeming qualities.
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Lili Elbe
Winning Opera of Early Transsexual Surgery
By: - Aug 16th, 2026Santa Fe Opera offers an imposing American premiere of Tobias Picker's powerful statement about an oppressed group through the biography of Lili Elbe, who underwent sex reassignment surgery a century ago.
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Death of an Eagle
What Two Bald Eagles Showed Us About Human Evolution
By: - Aug 18th, 2026The death of the bald eagle known as Jackie has left millions of people grieving. Very few of them ever caught a glimpse of her in-person soaring over Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino mountains of California, but they feel they know her personally. She and her mate Shadow were YouTube stars, influencers, you might say, of an audience that followed the lifestyles of the feathered and famous.
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From Call It in the Air
Inorganic Psychology
By: - Aug 20th, 2026'I was joking.' Joanna's voice was soft. It sounded far away. He visualized the miles of phone line his voice was crawling along to reach her. It bothered him that he couldn't touch her. His words were not enough; he didn't trust the line with the nuance he was giving his words. Or would give them. If he ever made sense again. 'It doesn't matter,' Joanna added after a pause.
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The Magic Flute
Santa Fe Opera's Visual and Vocal Kaleidoscope
By: - Aug 15th, 2026Mozart's popular fable-like singspiel is given a scintillating, near comic-like treatment. The hero wins the girl and passes the tests of the brotherhood
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Rafael Mahdavi Paintings
A Published Retrospectuve of 100 Images
By: - Aug 14th, 2026Most artists fret over their legacy. Rafael Mahdavi has taken the matter into his own hands. In a new book with 100 color images he surveys his output from 1972-2026.
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Theater for the New City Dreams Up
Edgy Theater for New Yorkers
By: - Aug 17th, 2026With Theater for the New City's 14th Dream Up Festival fast approaching (August 23 through September 13), The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.
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The Architecture of a Moment
Illnesss, Impermanence and the Mundane
By: - Aug 11th, 2026When you’re this sick, the present moment doesn’t feel like a sanctuary. It feels more like a heavy, itchy wool coat that you’re stuck in and can’t unzip. In the middle of all this, I’ve found myself clinging to one simple, almost silly thought. It’s become my anchor: “This moment is my life with shingles; the next moment will be my life without shingles.”
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Orpheus Descending
Flawed but Worthy Play with Strong Treatment
By: - Aug 11th, 2026Oakland Theater Project takes on Tennessee Williams' Southern Gothic tale and adds another dimension by making Val, the Orpheus figure, black. Drifting into a Southern town and becoming intimate with a white woman in the early 1950s is not likely to have a positive outcome.
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Great Elephant Migration
On Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall
By: - Aug 12th, 2026In Back Bay’s elegant nineteenth-century Commonwealth Avenue Mall, a surprising summertime apparition has arrived: a herd of elephants. They do not thunder past, but stand in a quiet procession, projecting an uncannily elephantine presence. The Great Elephant Migration, a free, traveling public-art exhibition, brings 100 life-size sculptures of Asian elephants to the Mall between Arlington and Fairfield Streets through September 13. Installed as though moving east toward Boston Common, the herd is at once an environmental warning, an occasion for wonder and curiosity, and a persuasive instance of art made genuinely public.
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The Evolution of Music
From Stone Age to Rolling Stones
By: - Aug 01st, 2026The author posits that music arose from the rhythms of everyday life, later joined with dancing and flutes. By the classical music era rhythm was no longer prominent, but it arose again with the invention of electric music, which enabled musicians to create new sounds never before encountered by human ears or brains.
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Dark Side of the Moon
Sohn Fine Arts in Lenox
By: - Aug 13th, 2026Sohn Fine Art presents Dark Side of the Moon, a compelling group exhibition featuring photography and unconventional materials by Marieken Cochius, Chuck Kelton, Regina Durante Jestrow, and Jonathan Prince. The exhibition explores expansive territory where art intersects with material experimentation, revealing practices that move beyond the expected limits of each medium.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
Accidemts are Preventable
By: - Aug 12th, 2026Best Friends! Until they were twenty-one. This was the pact they had struck in their boyhood. A unique understanding. A covenant that Joey had kept and preserved. For ten years it had jogged quietly with him, the stride indelibly paced by the sustained and persistent flipping of his Canadian penny. Gary and him. He and Gary. As intrinsically bound together as the two sides of the coin.
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Tanglewood Learning Institute
Fifty Events September to May
By: - Aug 07th, 2026The Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) is pleased to announce the 2026–27 fall/winter/spring season, the most expansive yet, with over 50 events at the Linde Center for Music and Learning on Tanglewood's campus and in the Berkshires community. Marking the third year of year-round TLI programming, the upcoming season offers a wide-ranging performance lineup of exciting classical, jazz, Broadway, and dance talent as well as the TLI Cinematics film series, new TLI Focal Point photography classes, and community engagement events.
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Carmen in Salzburg
Asmik Grigorian Shines in Her Role Debut
By: - Aug 09th, 2026Carmen arrived in a new production at Salzburg this summer, featuring Asmik Grigorian in her role debut as the title character. Everything we have come to expect from this glorious singer. is alive on stage at the Grosses Festspielhaus.. Her acting fully matches her vocal prowess. S
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American Apollo
Another Hit for West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 09th, 2026In truth, a young black man, Thomas McKeller, modeled for famed portrait artist John Singer Sargent for several years. In truth, did they have an affair? An entertaining contemporary opera explores the fantasy.
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Manship, Friendship and Hockney, An Exhibition’s Genesis
Rebecca Reynolds, Director of Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 06th, 2026Art Deco pioneer Paul Manship (1885-1966) is best known for the Prometheus Fountain at NY's Rockefeller Center. He first came to Gloucester with painter Maxfield Parrish in 1915 and, thanks to an invitation from another friend, painter Leon Kroll, he started summering on Cape Ann in 1940. In 1944, he purchased two abandoned granite quarries, the current Manship property, and built a summer residence there in 1945 and his barn studio in 1946. Today the site functions as Manship Artists Residency.
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Lovesong by Abi Morgan at Unicorn Theatre
Four Play Two
By: - Aug 06th, 2026Lovesong by Abi Morgan has a challenging premise. It presents a loving couple in two stages with both on stage portraying aspects of their lives separated by decades. Without acknowledgement they are often in each others’ presence which creates challenges for trying to follow progressions. To what extent does the audience buy into seeing a single couple at different stages of life or four actors following parallel but different trajectories?
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