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Steinberg/ATCA
Playwrights Vying for Annual Award
By: - Apr 02nd, 2024Six play finalists are in the running for a major national annual award presented by theater critics. The American Theatre Critics Association annually presents the 2024 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New play Award. The winner will be announced in May.
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Gatsby the Musical
American Repertory Theatre
By: - Apr 02nd, 2024Gatsby is directed by Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Moby-Dick) with choreography by Tony Award winner Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge!). The production features an original score by international rock star Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine) and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), and a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living). Keenan Tyler Oliphant is associate director and Camden Gonzales is associate choreographer. Casting will be announced at a later date.
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Henrick Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People
Stunning Revival on Broadway
By: - Apr 01st, 2024Jeremy Strong stars in revival. Audiences may be amazed by how many issues in Ibsen's play equate to issues in our times.
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Biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
By: - Apr 02nd, 2024The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is proud to announce the third iteration of the biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award. This biennial award honors an outstanding female-identifying visual artist based in the Greater Boston area. Funded by Prilla Smith Brackett (Wellesley Class of 1964) and administered by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Brackett Award will be given to the artist whose work demonstrates extraordinary artistic vision, talent, and skill. The award winner will be announced in Fall 2024.
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Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart's Greatest Cad
By: - Apr 01st, 2024Nightclub entertainer Joey Evans attracts a patroness, Vera, who stakes him to a club of his own. But she is older, domineering, married, and hot for him. He's a footloose schemer with the morals of an alley cat. What could possibly go wrong? Happily, the clashes of nightclub life are revealed with liberal doses of the beautiful tune "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
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Kathia St. Hilaire at the Clark
Lunder Center at Stone Hil
By: - Apr 01st, 2024"Kathia St. Hilaire is a remarkable young artist who creates captivating works that combine a wide range of media,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “She interweaves Haiti’s history and her own personal biography into images that are beautiful, sometimes difficult, and utterly original.”
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Unhurried Grace
Patience of a Forest Stream
By: - Mar 31st, 2024While offering instruction in the various taiji forms I teach, I often refer to a forest stream and urge my students to become it, ever-flowing, to find and then move at the pace of their breath, ever-flowing, just as the stream finds its pace. The stream does not move from one place to the next; there is no line of demarcation between places. The stream simply flows.
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Cape Ann Museum 2024
Is there Life After Hopper
By: - Mar 30th, 2024With minimal marketing and fanfare the Cape Ann Museum launches its 2024 season with the special exhibition In the Round: 20th Century Cape Ann Sculpture which opens April 6 from 3 to 5 pm. It focuses on major sculptors who lived and worked on Cape Ann. In July there will be a survey of women artists. The museum has pulled back to business as usual following last summer's blockbuster Edward Hopper and Jo Nivison exhibition in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Two at Gallery Naga
Joseph McNamara Josué Bessiake: A Bird’s Last Look
By: - Mar 29th, 2024Joseph McNamara is a New York-based, realist painter whose work—often large-scale—is centered on paintings of the industrial landscape and his relationship to it. His paintings are painstakingly detailed and can take months and even years, to complete. McNamara uses photographs as aids, however, the paintings are not “photo-realistic”: each painting strays away from a strict accounting of the subject matter and takes on a life of its own.
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Dead Outlaw at the Minetta Lane Theatre
The Crew from Band's Visit Reunites
By: - Mar 29th, 2024Dead Outlaw is Audible’s latest production at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York. The band is central on stage from start to finish. We enter the world of a rocking hoe-down celebrating life after death.
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Morgan Bulkeley at Bernay Fine Art
Great Barrimgton Group Show Opens March 30
By: - Mar 28th, 2024Get ready to embark on a whimsical journey through the world of cartoons and illustrations as Bernay Fine Art presents ARToons. This vibrant exhibition promises to enchant both the young and the young at heart.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Beth Hyland
Wins L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award
By: - Mar 28th, 2024Williamstown Theatre Festival is pleased to announce Beth Hyland as the recipient of the 2024 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award for her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA. Hyland will receive the $10,000 award and the accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission to write a new play.
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Queen
TheatreWorks Fine Production About Bees and People
By: - Mar 26th, 2024In 2017, the world's bee population has plummeted, putting the food supply at risk. Two research assistants at University of California Santa Cruz have produced research that identifies the source of the die off, but then one last data collection undermines the previous results even though their paper is about to be published. The play confronts the dilemmas that researchers deal with.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Ft. Lauderdale's Thinking Cap Theatre
By: - Mar 26th, 2024Thinking Cap Theatre in Ft. Lauderdale presents an updated "The Taming of the Shrew" at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The production takes place in a modern-day office building. The reading of a play that is a response to Shakespeare's piece is also scheduled.
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King Liz
Breaking Down Barriers in City Lights' Smashing Production
By: - Mar 25th, 2024Overcoming odds, Liz Rico has become a highly successful basketball agent. She now must represent a first-round draft pick who lacks college experience and maturity. Further, he has a police record that the media could pick up on. In this dramedy, she must determine how to handle the conflicts of managing the relationship with the client and the broader community.
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Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida
A Three Ring Circus of Art
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida is one of the most unique, and curious collections in America. It is sited on a manicured, tropical, 66-acre campus that conflates nature, leisure, warmth and depth in Old Master paintings, Ancient Mediterranean art, Asian art, 19th and 20th century art, prints, drawings and photography, as well as extensive circus related memorabilia. There are period rooms with collections of decorative arts. Through expansion it is now the 20th largest American museum.
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Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA)
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Not long after that, John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910) created the bronze sculpture “The Freedman.” It depicts a semi-nude seated figure in the act of his removing shackles. Resembling the iconic Roman “Boxer,” the work was arguably the first bronze sculpture to depict an African American.
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Power of Stillness
Present Moment Awareness
By: - Mar 21st, 2024One exercise I suggest to my students is a “slow by slow” day each week: walk just a little slower than you usually walk; speak just a little slower than you usually speak; eat just a little slower than you usually eat. Not slow motion, and not so anyone else would notice, but slower than usual.
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Doubt Revived by Roundabout Theatre
John Patrick Shanley's Timely Masterpiece
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s justly celebrated play, is running at the Roundabout Theatre in New York directed by Scott Ellis.
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Escaped Alone at Yale Rep
Signifying Nothing
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024I admit to still being perplexed. It kept reminding me of the Shakespeare lines from MacBeth, which begin “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;” and ends with “It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, /Signifying nothing.”
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The Hot Wing King
At Hartford Stage
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024It is easy to see why this play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2021. The play is about family, friends and dreams. It is about the challenges we all face in navigating the potential pitfalls in families and the difficulties of new romantic relationships.
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Pooches at the Clark
Walking the Dogs
By: - Mar 18th, 2024On Friday, April 19, the Clark Art Institute offers free activities as part of its April School Vacation Week programming. At 10 am, the Clark hosts Earth Walk with Dogs, offering three walks through its trails, ranging in difficulty. From 11 am–1 pm, the Clark presents a pop-up display of dogs and nature-themed works on paper in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, located in the Manton Research Center.
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Erin Go Bragh Yourself
Luck of the Irish
By: - Mar 18th, 2024Once a year I get to celebrate my half Irish heritage with a vengeance. That means corned beef and cabbage and raucous singalong at the Freight Yard Pub in North Adams.
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Berkshire Jazz Festival
Tickets on Sale
By: - Mar 18th, 2024Starting with an open jam session and ending with a jazz brunch at Dottie’s, the events include the popular Jazz Crawl, a swing dance, the jazz prodigy concert introducing two (!) young musicians to Berkshires audiences, and headline concerts featuring Brandon Goldberg and Marcus Roberts. The box office is open, and you can find a link at the end of this newsletter.
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Pipeline
The Dangers of Growing Up Black in America
By: - Mar 18th, 2024In response to provocation, Black private-school-student Omari has crossed a line with his White teacher. The boy's mother, Nya, who is a teacher, is conflicted, as she values the rules that serve to protect society, but she understands that her son is a good boy with a future now in peril. Dominique Morisseau's riveting play explores numerous issues of race and relationships, and African-American Shakespeare's production does the play justice.
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