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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
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Irishtown at the Irish Rep
Ever Wondered What Makes an Irish Play
By: - May 08th, 2025Irishtown is currently playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York through May 25th. Nicola Murphy Dubey directs.
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Jacob’s Pillow Live
Free Streaming All Summer
By: - May 08th, 2025This year’s livestreamed performances will feature the highly anticipated return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Season Opening Gala, and the Doris Duke Theatre’s inaugural program — along with a wide spectrum of dance genres including ballet, West African dance, contemporary, tap, and Afro-Latin jazz and soul. Performances will be broadcast live from the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, the newly reimagined Doris Duke Theatre, and the iconic Henry J. Leir Stage.
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Count Basie Band in Pittsfield
Headlined Pittsfield CityJazz Festival
By: - May 04th, 2025The annual Pittsfield Jazz Festival ended last night with the legendary Count Basie Band. Now some 90-years-old it has been led by Scotty Barnhart since 2013.
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Trump Defunds MASS MoCA
Cancels Grant for Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
By: - May 06th, 2025On Friday night, the National Endowment for the Arts sent MASS MoCA an email notification of the termination of our awarded grant for the support of Jeffrey Gibson’s commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT.
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The Engish Concert at Carnegie Hall
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
By: - May 07th, 2025The English Concert performed a semi-staged, off-book production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Carnegie Hall. This annual visit by one of the world’s premier Baroque ensembles is eagerly awaited — and this year did not disappoint.
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Less Than Smashing
A Musical from TV to Broadway
By: - May 04th, 2025If you are expecting a faithful translation of the 2012-13 TV series, you may be disappointed. Changes have occurred in transferring Smash to the Broadway stage. Characters have new names, some characters have been added to the cast, and the backstory of some of the characters has changed dramatically.
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Clark Art Institute Summer 2025
A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945
By: - May 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts.
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Handel in Hudson
R.B. Schlather Captures Handel's Spirit with a Fresh View
By: - May 02nd, 2025Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York, presents Handel’s Giulio Cesare as part of its ambitious celebration of the composer’s forty operas—each of which will eventually be staged here. It’s an exciting prospect.
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Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Pigs Do Fly Productions in South Florida
By: - May 02nd, 2025Pigs Do Fly Productions' mounting of "Painting Churches" is a winner. Art, memory, and aging collide in the poetic play.
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Beetlejuice the Musical
Strong Equity National Touring Production Stops in Miami
By: - May 02nd, 2025It's showtime, as the "ghost with the most" visits Miami to haunt audiences as Beetlejuice. It delivers a winning combination of whimsy, weirdness, and spookiness. An equity national touring production's stops in Miami.
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Flemish Masters at Peabody Essex Museum
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
By: - May 01st, 2025The exhibition, co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, features rarely exhibited masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Jan Brueghel, Clara Peeters, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Francken II and Michaelina Wautier, among many others. Prior to Salem it was on view in Denver and Montreal
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Two Cuban Women at the Museum of Fine Arts
Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta,
By: - Apr 29th, 2025This focused exhibition brings together works from the MFA’s collection by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born 1959) and Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). Though the artists never met, their work shares a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the landscape, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire.
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Beyond Belief
Freedom from Bitterness Through Knowing
By: - Apr 28th, 2025Moving beyond bitterness is not about forcing forgiveness or pretending the past didn’t happen. It is about recognizing where we are investing our energy. Are we feeding the rigid beliefs that keep the wound infected?
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Don Giovanni Entrances in Philadelphia
Opera Philadelphia Triumphs
By: - Apr 29th, 2025Opera Philadelphia is presenting Mozart’s original version of Don Giovanni at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It’s a lively, visually striking production designed to showcase both the richness of Mozart’s score and Da Ponte’s intricate libretto.
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Writing Fragments Home
Charming Premiere of a Boomerang Philippine-American Style
By: - Apr 26th, 2025Jeffrey Lo invites us into his imagination and relationships in this semi-autobiographical look at a 40-year-old wannabe playwright who has to return to his mother's home after losing his job and his girlfriend. Equally funny and sad, it offers insights into mother and adult child relationships.
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Floyd Collins Echoes at Lincoln Center
Fresh Faces Enliven the Cast
By: - Apr 24th, 2025In 1925, a seemingly prescient family farmer became captivated by the idea of bringing a one-act Barnum and Bailey-style circus to the caves of Kentucky. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of Floyd Collins, whose entrapment in this famously fragile landscape—formed by the dissolution of limestone, collapsing sinkholes, sinking streams, and springs—captured national attention. His burial in the very Sand Cave he had chosen became a media sensation. Now it is a musical, Floyd Collins.
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Peter Wolf Publishes Memoir
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025When not on tour, Peter Wolf and Magic Dick were my neighbors in the notorious Murder Building. Rent was cheap in the heart of Harvard Square. Wolf was a part of Ed Hood's literary salon which hosted Warhol's factory members and the Velvet Underground. With fellow students of the Museum School he fronted his first group The Hallucinations. He literally moonlighted as a DJ for the emerging WBCN-FM. After two years under the radar his second band J Geils signed with unfavorable terms to Atlantic Records. After several albums and little to show for it they signed with EMI. Their single "Centerfold" went to number one. Having finally made it the band mysteriously canned Wolf and folded after one more album. The well written book has anecdotes of his ventures with the rich and famous including marriage to Faye Dunaway.
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Huntington Theatre 26/26 Season
Seven Plays
By: - Apr 24th, 2025Huntington Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli announce seven titles in The Huntington’s electrifying 2025/26 season, featuring poignant fresh works, a bitingly funny comedy, and a love-affirming contemporary musical – powerful stories about love and family, both epic and intimate in scale and scope.
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Legendary Music Producer John Sdoucous
Still Active Until Recent Demise at 90
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025Music producer John Sdoucous was a force during the era of Boston’s Counterculture. Commissioned by Mayor Kevin White he curated the important series Boston On the Common. It brought major musicians to perform in the heart of the city. He also worked with George Wein and his Newport Festival. For many years he resided in Florida and Cape Co
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L.A. Rebellion Plays at Lincoln Center
A Visceral Picture of Black Life Brought to Film by Black Artists
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025In 1968, UCLA launched a groundbreaking initiative to increase enrollment of Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian film students. Though the program ended in 1973, it had already admitted a significant number of students of color, many of whom later attracted others to UCLA. This initiative produced a remarkable group of Black filmmakers. Film at Lincoln Center celebrates this legacy.
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Rose Art Museum Acquires Works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu
Selected by Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee,
By: - Apr 23rd, 2025The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announces the acquisition of works by Dhambit Munuggurr and Yu-Wen Wu into its permanent collection. Selected by the Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund Committee, these significant additions reflect the museum’s dedication to championing innovative contemporary voices and broadening the global perspectives within its holdings.
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Pillow Pride Weekend
Expanded from One Nighter to Weekend
By: - Apr 22nd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow is pleased to announce the return of Pillow Pride Weekend, a three-day itinerary of events centered on LGBTQ+ joy and visibility that will run as an extension of Pride month from Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13. While the longstanding dance festival has hosted a one-night-only Pride-themed dance party in recent summers, this will be the organization’s first time hosting a three-day destination Pride celebration since 2019.
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Zorro
Origins of a Superhero at Opera San Jose
By: - Apr 21st, 2025Diego returns to his father's home in Los Angeles to find his former friend Moncada is now mayor and brutalizes mestizos (mixed bloods), a group that includes Diego's love, Ana Maria. In this origin story, Diego takes on the disguise Zorro and fights to improve the plight of the disadvantaged.
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It's True, It's True, It's True
Rape in Renaissance Italy: A Feminist Perspective
By: - Apr 19th, 2025Artemisia Gentileschi, who would become a renowned Baroque painter and had produced her first masterpiece at age 15, is raped by an older man, papal painter Agostino Tassi. Remarkable for its time, the teenaged victim takes the perpetrator to court. This account is based on Roman court transcripts .
