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Frankie’s in Lenox
Superb Osso Bucco
By: - May 30th, 2023Whenever it's on the menu I generally order osso bucco. I have enjoyed it from Palm Beach to Bologna. Even made it from time to time at home. The version at Frankie's in Lenox was among the best ever
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The Happiest Man on Earth by Mark St. Germain
World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company
By: - May 29th, 2023Barrington Stage Company presents another world premiere by Mark St Germain on the stage that bears his name. The Happiest Man on Earth is a one-man show based on the holocaust memoir The Happiest Man on Earth published by Eddie Jaku when he was one hundred years old. It is profoundly performed by Kenneth Tigar.
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Playwright Mark St Germain
Anthony Hopkins to Star in Freud's Last Session
By: - May 29th, 2023Many of Mark St Germain's plays have premiered at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. One of his most successful was Freud's Last Session with some 200 global productions. Recently he discussed how the play is being filmed in Ireland starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. He also spoke about his new play The Happiest Man on Earth which is having its world premiere at BSC.
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Topdog/Underdog
Pulitzer Prize-winning Play at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 30th, 2023Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the failure of the Amrerican Dream. A top-notch production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs through June 11 at South Florida's Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. .
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Rhiannon Giddens Directs at Ojai
Giddens Tells The Whole Story
By: - May 29th, 2023Each year at the Ojai Festival in California a different Music Director is given the freedom and the resources to imagine four days of musical brainstorming. Ojai’s signature blend of an enchanted setting and an audience voracious in its appetite for challenge and discovery has inspired a distinguished series of musical innovators—from Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky and Jeremy Denk, Dawn Upshaw and Barbara Hannigan. John Adams has directed twice.
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Der fliegende Holländer
Robert Balonek's Vocal Power As The Dutchman Astounds.
By: - May 28th, 2023Blessed with soaring romance-style music and a dramatic source from Heinrich Heine’s take on Celtic mythology (influenced in turn by stories of the Wandering Jew), Wagner produced his first operatic masterpiece. However, he shifted the venue to a Nordic locale more compatible with his desired social iconography. The composer was particularly empathetic toward the title character as he identified with the isolation and persecution suffered, creating a highly engaging opera centered on this desolate soul.
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Tracy Jones
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
By: - May 27th, 2023The new comedy "Tracy Jones" is running at the Ft. Lauderdale-area's Island City Stage as the last leg of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. "Tracy Jones," by Stephen Kaplan, is about a lonely woman who throws a party for every other woman in her state also named Tracy Jones. The play highlights loneliness and the human need for connection. .
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Let The Right One In
Intelligent Vampire Story With Interesting Twists But Inconsistent Tone.
By: - May 26th, 2023Rather than a simple blood-sucking horror, the play focuses largely on the relationship between Oskar, a bullied teenage boy from a broken home with a drunken mother and a largely neglectful father, and Eli, a new neighbor - who possesses an androgynous look; acts mostly like a girl; but insists that she’s not a girl, with no further explanation.
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(Not Entirely) Black and White, by Nelson and Fried
Show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
By: - May 20th, 2023This exhibition in North Adams ends on May 29 and so we also introduce the Old Stone Mill Center in Adams, MA, on Rt. 8, outside of downtown, direction to S. Adams. Both are worth a visit!
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Gypsy at Goodspeed
Solid But Not Outstanding Production
By: - May 26th, 2023This classic musical was originally written specifically for Ethel Merman, a huge Broadway star, by Jule Styne (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Arthur Laurents (book). It was loosely based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the stripper/actress/writer.
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Barrington Stage Company Gala 2023
Taylor Mac Hosts Night at the Kit Kat Club
By: - May 25th, 2023Hosted by MacArthur Genius-Award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist Taylor Mac, BSC’s Gala will transport attendees to the pre-war Berlin Kit Kat Club for an evening of pleasure featuring a cabaret lineup that will include burlesque artist Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Off Limits for Critics
No Coverage Allowed This Summer
By: - May 24th, 2023The once fabled Williamstown Theatre Festival, under interim artistic director Jenny Gersten, has cut back this season.
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Nor’easter: Paintings by Terry Ekasala, Rick Harlow, and Craig Stockwell
At The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield VT
By: - May 24th, 2023Most years, we in New England experience massive storms called Nor’easter’s. In the winter months these epic events usually stop everything for a few days while we dig our way out of snow drifts and wait for electricity to resume. As artists, we relish any reason to stop in our tracks, slow time, and experience stillness.
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Tan Dun Conducts TON
Rose Theater in New York Becomes an Aviary
By: - May 24th, 2023Tan Dun became famous for his Academy Award-winning track for Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger. A crossover classical composer who grew up in the country in China, and had not heard Beethoven until he was eighteen, he has made a career, merging East and West, using the conventions and tonalities of each culture. This merger is most effective in his operas, symphonies and concertos.
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David Auburn's Summer, 1976 on Broadway
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht
By: - May 23rd, 2023Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht) are mothers of 5-year-old daughters; it is summer in Columbus, Ohio and both are connected to The Ohio State University.
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This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver
Stunning Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - May 21st, 2023As a painter Jeff Weaver is a man for all seasons. Some of the most engaging works are winter scenes. It’s the Gloucester that tourists never see. He creates meticulous paintings of weathered, storm battered, Gloucester commercial and residential landmarks. The works document vintage images of a working port and fishing community undergoing a change to an economy based on tourism and a glut of generic condos.
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New Publication from MFA
America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy
By: - May 19th, 2023In a thoughtful introduction, Gadsden makes her case for Modernism, and then hones in on five wonderfully talented but quite different trailblazing industrial designers: Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958), Donald Deskey (1894-1989), Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008), Harley J. Earl (1893-1969), and Belle Kogan (1902-2000).
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Casting for William Finn's New Brain
Barrington Stage Company in Association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - May 18th, 2023A New Brain features music and lyrics by BSC Associate Artist William Finn (BSC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Royal Family of Broadway), book by Finn and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner James Lapine (Broadway: Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George), and direction by BSC Associate Artist Joe Calarco (BSC: Waiting for Godot, Into the Woods, Ragtime), with music direction by Vadim Feichtner (BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway; Broadway: Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and choreography by Chloe O. Davis (Paradise Square).
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Cast For Summer Season
Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season,
By: - May 18th, 2023The Season opens May 26 with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, with David Gow and Zoya Martin, outdoors in The Roman Garden Theatre.
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend
Vocalists Roberta Donnay and Alexis Cole
By: - May 18th, 2023The headline concerts include two striking vocalists: Roberta Donnay with the Prohibition Mob Band, and the first pairing of vocalist Alexis Cole with the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Free “jazz-al-fresco” takes place on Saturday, June 10, and there will be two jazz brunches.
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Season Closer at Yale Rep Disappoints
the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson
By: - May 18th, 2023Yes, there are some funny moments and some touching ones, but overall, it is hard to become engaged with the characters. Except for Janice, they appear only in short scenes that allow for little depth of character.
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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Chad Smith Appointed President and CEO of BSO
Good News for Boston
By: - May 16th, 2023Chad Smith is a visionary credited with advancing the orchestral music tradition through cutting-edge programming and cultivating industry-defining partnerships. Smith brings strategic expertise, commitment to musical excellence, and a tested ability to expand audiences and generate revenue.
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Fat Ham by Pulitzer Winner James IJames
American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2023Fat Ham turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet upside down without minimizing the issues the original raises or the brilliance. The play by James IJames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is easy to see why.
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Art Bath's De Gustation
Making Multi Media Art for the Masses
By: - May 15th, 2023Elizabeth Yilmaz and Mara Driscoll, two dancers from the Metropolitan Opera troupe, have created a performance series that’s as wonderful as it is unique. The final performance of the spring season, and the 9th produced by this team with associate Cesar Abreu, was in the spirit of a happening.
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