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100 Years Bauhaus
Opening Ceremonies in Berlin
By: - Jan 26th, 2019Angelika Jansen was lucky enough to experience many aspects of the '100 jahre bauhaus' (100 Years of Bauhaus) celebrations, from January 16-24, as she writes in her following article. Architecture and culture in the 20th Century were greatly influenced by works and activities of many members of an 'institution' that only lasted 24 years - and the Bauhaus impact lives on.
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SongStudio at Carnegie
Nico Muhly and Piotr Beczala as Master Teachers
By: - Jan 29th, 2019Communication is the theme of SongStudio. Renee Fleming has gone for the jugular in addressing the problem of song’s survival. How do singers communicate with an audience so people want to come and hear them? Master classes with Nico Muhly and Piotr Beczala provided assurances for the future of the song.
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Shakespeare & Company 2019
Something Old Something New
By: - Jan 30th, 2019There will be four plays by Shakespeare. Contemporary plays include Pulitzer Prize finalist The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan; Tony Award nominated play The Children by Lucy Kirkwood; Pulitzer Prize winner Topdog/Underdog by MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Suzan-Lori Parks; and Time Stands Still by Obie Award winner Donald Margulies.
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Meister Debuts at the Metropolitan Opera
Don Giovanni Gets a Special Spin
By: - Jan 30th, 2019The conductor Cornelius Meister is a fast-rising star in Europe. Having just finished a lengthy run at the helm of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he is now the music director o the State Opera and the State Orchestra in the German city of Stuttgart. On January 30, Mr. Meister will make his debut at the Met. His task: conducting one of Mozart's finest and darkest operas: the deliciously twisted Don Giovanni. This week, Superconductor found time to sit down with the maestro to talk all things dramma giocoso.
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August Strindberg’s Creditors
Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, California
By: - Feb 04th, 2019Threads of Strindberg's Creditors are woven into later hostile relationship dramas from Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Indeed, Strindberg publicly accused Ibsen of basing Hedda on Tekla
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Music Producer John Sdoucos
Remembering Remains, Hallucinations, Springsteen, and JT
By: - Feb 05th, 2019As a junior at Boston University, John Sdoucous, worked with George Wein promoting the Newport Jazz Festival launched in 1954. By 1968 he was booking Summerthing for the City of Boston. He got Janis Joplin on stage at Harvard Stadium in 1969 and launched Concerts on the Common in 1970. He continues to book concerts and festivals all over America. For Sdoucos it all started in Boston.
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Crypt Sessions' Quartet for the End of Time
Messiaen's Revelation
By: - Feb 05th, 2019Andrew Ousley’s remarkable concert cocktail evenings at The Crypt presented Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. This most famous of Messiaen’s works had a moving performance in a setting that resonated with crystal liturgy.
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Stones Busted Enroute to Boston Garden
What Really Happened That Night
By: - Feb 07th, 2019During a 1972 tour the Stones connecting from Toronto got diverted to Warwick, Rhode Island. Waiting for a limo to Boston Garden Keith clocked a photographer who got too close. Cops busted him as well as Mick who chimed in. After hours of delay Mayor Kevin White told 14,000 fans that the Stones were busted but "I got them out." That's not really true. The Stones went on stage at 1 AM for one of the great concerts in Boston rock history. Decades later attorney Martin Kaplan relates what really happened that night.
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New Theater Company In South Florida
A Band Of Actors Produced Experimental Work
By: - Feb 07th, 2019A Band of Actors theater company has joined the South Florida theatrical scene. The Delray Beach-based troupe is performing an absurdist play in the vein of Beckett titled Momo & Toto (Together Forever in Perpetuity). Troupe to focus on experimental work, shy away from traditional, naturalistic "kitchen sink" dramas.
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Barrington Stage Company 2019
Season Opens on May 25
By: - Feb 08th, 2019Barrington Stage Company (BSC) will feature four world premieres including the new musical from BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab, Fall Springs by Niko Tsakalakos and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb; America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of The American Negro by Stacey Rose; American Underground by Brent Askari; and Ragtag Theatre’s Hansel and Gretel, commissioned by BSC.
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Barbara Hannigan Conducts Juilliard Orchestra
A Soprano at the Helm
By: - Feb 09th, 2019Barbara Hannigan, one of the world’s leading sopranos, conducted the Juilliard Orchestra in a thrilling performance of Strauss, Haydn, Debussy, Sibelius and Bartok. The orchestra responded with music-making worthy of concert halls across the globe.
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Moby Dick a Whale of an Opera
At Opera San José
By: - Feb 12th, 2019Although Moby-Dick adheres to the continuous melody mode, many striking set pieces punctuate the score. Much beauty also derives from the orchestral interludes which reflect smooth seas as well as storm with equal competence. But the most striking pieces are the many rousing choruses.
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The Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
At Victory Gardens Theater
By: - Feb 12th, 2019The pipeline in Dominique Morisseau’s play is the school-to-prison path followed too often by young people from disadvantaged backgrounds because of harsh school and police policies.
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A Doll’s House Part 2
Ibsen Sequel by Lucas Hnath
By: - Feb 14th, 2019The Lucas Hnath sequel to Ibsen A Doll's House-Part 2 was a hit on Broadway. The door slammer is making the rounds of regional theatre. This production runs at TheaterWorks in Connecticut through February 24.
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Turner and Constable at Clark Art Institute
Sublime in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 14th, 2019Through March 10, the Clark Art Institute is presenting a compact exhibition Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape. Curated by Alexis Goodin is installed in about a third of the museum’s special exhibition space. It allows us to compare and contrast the twin towers of British landscape painting: Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) and John Constable, (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837).
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8th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
Pittsfield's 2019 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival
By: - Feb 18th, 2019Kudos to Barrington Stage Company for bringing theatre back to the Berkshires in the dead of winter. Yesterday we enjoyed a matinee of the eighth annual, 10X10 New Play Festival. It runs February 14 - March 10, 2019 at BSC’s St. Germain Stage.
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I Due Foscari by Verdi
Produced by West Bay Opera
By: - Feb 18th, 2019Like much early Verdi, I Due Foscari lacks the memorable arias and ensembles that appear on compilation recordings. However, it may be that we just haven’t heard these enough to become familiar with them.
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Salonen Conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
Strauss and Bartok Featured
By: - Feb 19th, 2019In recent seasons, Esa-Pekka Salonen has shifted his emphasis from conducting to his first love, composition. However, Friday’s matinee program at the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall featured none of Salonen’s own catalogue. Rather, the composer led a program consisting of workers by Béla Bartók and Richard Strauss, two very different composers who are each in their own way, touchstones of the twentieth century.
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Violet the Musical in San Francisco
Book and Lyrics by Brian Crawley and Music by Jeanine Tesori
By: - Feb 20th, 2019The year is 1964. Violet, a young woman with suitcase in hand, is about to board a Greyhound bus to leave her hometown of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Her destination – Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bay Area Musicals offers a lively and well-staged representation of a journey that changes its central figure in unexpected ways.
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BMP's Next Generation at National Sawdust
Composers Michael Lanci and Emma O'Halloran
By: - Feb 21st, 2019National Sawdust, a leading venue for new music, mounted the work of two finalists in the BMP Next Generation Competition, Michael Lanci and Emma O'Halloran. Last March, their compositions were selected from a field of ten, winnowed down from 75 applications.
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Irish Repertory Theatre Celebrates O'Casey
Shadow of a Gunman
By: - Feb 24th, 2019The Irish Repertory Theatre captures the quotidian of life in Dublin, 1920 as it plays out in Sean O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman. We sit in the extension of a room in a tenement which a poet and a suspender salesman share. Above us, laundry hangs from a window. Charlie Corcoran’s set brings us completely into a day-in-the-life of a wouldn’t-be gunman.
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Tacos Ring the Bell
Route 20 Out of Pittsfield
By: - Feb 24th, 2019Meeting on a Saturday afteroon in the dead of winter the agenda was a wine stating at Spirited in Lenox. First lunch at a new taco joint just up the road from Pittsfield.
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Race In Miami Lakes
David Mamet's Scorching Play By Main Street Players
By: - Feb 25th, 2019David Mamet's Race ratchets up the heat in South Florida. A superb cast disappears into their roles in a production that immediately communicates the racial tension in this country. Miami Lakes-based Main Street Players continues to produce quality work as a professional company.
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New City Players A Raisin In The Sun'
Lorraine Hansberry Classic In South Florida
By: - Feb 25th, 2019Director finds mounting the "monster" play A Raisin in the Sun a huge challenge. Mary Elizabeth Gundlach relies on cast members to help her direct them. Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players is presenting the complex, layered play through March 10.
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Bauhaus in Chicago
100 Years Celebrated at Elmhurst Art Museum
By: - Mar 01st, 2019The Whole World a Bauhaus, the 100th anniversary exhibit of Bauhaus work, is now on display at the Elmhurst Art Museum. There are national and global Bauhaus exhibitions. This one is on view in Chicago.
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