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Orli Shaham Has MidWeek Mozart
Offerings to the Housebound and Health Workers
By: - Apr 10th, 2020The gifted Mozart-specialist Orli Shaham is offering excerpts from her soon to be released album of Mozart Sonatas. She and her husband, conductor David Robertson, perform Clapping for the Health Workers. The New York Phil chimes in with Bolera and Heartbeat Opera off Bernstein's "Let Your Garden Grow." What a gift basket.
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Shakespeare & Company Cancels Season
Schedule Shifted to 2021
By: - Apr 14th, 2020Shakespeare & Company is postponing its 2020 Summer Season to next summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus).
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Alan Shestack, 1938 to 2020
Former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Apr 16th, 2020From 1987 to 1993 Alan Shestack was director of the Museum of Fine Arts. He followed Jan Fontein who was director from 1975 to 1987.
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Actor Brian Dennehy at 81
Recalling a Visit to Williamstown
By: - Apr 16th, 2020Today the two time, Tony winning, character actor Brian Dennehy died of natural causes. He was 81. During what was then the annual Williamstown Film Festival he joined Steve Larson for a talk back at Images. In 2012 we saw him in Chicago's Goodman Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh." With an all star cast his performance was indelibible in an evening of theatre from which you never recover.
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Letter from Hancock Shaker Village
Three Little Lambs
By: - Apr 19th, 2020Jennifer Trainer Thompson, the director of Hancock Shaker Village, has a letter for friends and neighbors. It's spring and the lambs have been born. Soon it is time to plant the traditional gardens. Trying times call for creative solutions.
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Watching Theatre from Home
Adapting to the Pandemic
By: - Apr 21st, 2020Stage shows are going on – maybe not live, but via live streaming and through other means. Since the world is in the midst of a pandemic, theater lovers are not able to experience the vitality and immediacy that comes with truly live theater. However, that doesn’t mean theater can’t be a part of your life under quarantine.
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The Crucible, an Opera by Robert Ward
Opera Santa Barbara Mounts a Moving Production
By: - Apr 20th, 2020Robert Ward's Pulitzer-Prize winning opera, The Crucible, is streaming live from Opera Santa Barbara. It is a terrific production with a cast of first-rate singing actors conducted by Kostis Protopapas.
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Hancock Shaker Village a Living History Museum
Jennifer Trainer Thompson Discusses Plans for a 2020 Season
By: - Apr 23rd, 2020In a normal season the Hancock Shaker Village, which was founded sixty years ago near Pittsfield, is open from April through December. With spring planting and the birth of livestock this is a busy time of year. The annual Baby Animals Festival draws some 20% of annual visitation and 15% of earned revenue. We spoke with director Jennifer Trainer Thompson about strategies to function during the pandemic.
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Bang on a Can Marathon
Free Live Stream May 3
By: - Apr 24th, 2020The 2020 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature more than 40 participating artists, over two dozen solo performances, and four world premieres of newly commissioned works by Dai Wei, Shara Nova, Molly Joyce, and Ken Thomson. Guest composers will be online to introduce their works. The 6-hour live Marathon will be hosted by Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
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Persimmon
A Tree Grows in North Adams
By: - Apr 26th, 2020The tree grows. It does not try to; it just does. This is our life, and the purpose of it is to live. In this moment, and the next. It’s okay once in a while to sit on the Old Bastard’s bench, and catch our breath. But life does not stop, and we must continue to live it.
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The Remarkable Mario Diacono
Opened a Boston Gallery in 1985
By: - Apr 26th, 2020The status of the Italian poet, essayist and gallerist, Mario Diacono, is legendary. To be with his wife Claudette, a native of Lynn, Mass, he moved to Boston and opened a gallery in 1985. He was renowned for showing a single work for which he wrote scholarly essays. Then relatively affordable he made few Boston sales of the now renowned artists he exhibited. The Museum of Fine Arts bought a Ross Bleckner painting and appropriation by Sherrie Levine. Most of the work was acquired by the Italian collector Achille Maramotti. Today Diacono is a curator for Collezione Maramotti.
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Barrington Stage Company 2020 Update
The Show Goes On
By: - Apr 28th, 2020Out of precaution for actors, creative teams, staff and audiences, Barrington Stage Company will employ best safety practices, including reducing the 520-seat Mainstage to one third of its capacity; increasing the distance between rows and seats; and deep cleaning the theatre after every performance, among other measures. Patrons will be required to wear masks until further notice.
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Strauss Streaming from Bard
View One of Summerscape's Most Delicious Productions
By: - Apr 29th, 2020Bard continues to stream treasured past events from its website. If you missed a production, or conversation, now is your chance to catch up. This week, Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss is offered.
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Emerson Contemporary On Line Exhibition
What’s Next? Art for Tomorrow
By: - Apr 30th, 2020While Emerson College in Boston is closed the The Media Gallery may be viewed on line.
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BSO Announces Fall/ Winter Season
To Start in Mid September God Willing
By: - Apr 30th, 2020The Boston Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the ongoing uncertainty around the COVID-19 health crisis and the lack of clarity regarding the duration of the pandemic
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Showtimes Streams Mary Magdalene
Biblical Tale with Feminist Twist
By: - May 01st, 2020Showtime recently screened the intriguing 2018 movie “Mary Magdalene”, written by Helen Edmundson and Phillipa Goslett, directed by Garth Davis. This provocative, revisionist, version (with undertones of the current worldwide feminism movement) gives one the opportunity to think outside the accepted “biblical box” concerning the role of women in history both religiously and socially.
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Live-streamed theater
Is it here to stay?
By: - May 02nd, 2020Los Angeles-based No Pants Theatre Company is one of several founded as a response to the pandemic. The company, as of now, produces only live-streamed productions. Up next for No Pants Theatre Company is a college and university short play festival.
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Corona Cookbook: Chinese
Jane Hudson's Fried Rice
By: - May 03rd, 2020The Williamstown based artist, poet, musician and philosophe, Jane Hudon, launches a new feature for Berkhire Fine Arts. During this time of isolation we invte you to share what's cooking.
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Do the Math
Response to the Unmasked
By: - May 04th, 2020We are all connected; we are one. One plus one is one. There is even a word for this. That word is love. As difficult as it may be sometimes, it is nonetheless the answer.
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Corona Cookbook: Scallops
From Artist Linda O'Brien
By: - May 04th, 2020An artist neighbor, Linda Obrien, of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams is an amazing home chef. Food for her is a passion. We have been fortunate to share meals with her and Opie.
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Corona Cookbook: Bitter Lemons
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Corona Cookbook: Parmesan Wonton Crackers
Michael Bedford Cooks
By: - May 05th, 2020Our Eclipse neighbors Michael Bedford and Sarah Sutro spent many years living and working in Asia. Here he concocts a handy snack that will freeze well.
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Corona Cookbook: Eggplant Parm
Chicago Critic Nancy Bishop
By: - May 05th, 2020Chicago critic and fellow ATCA member is taking a forced leave from covering theatre. She walks us through her Eggplant Parm.
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Carona Cookbook: Spanish Tortilla
Kampe's Familiar Breakfast Treat
By: - May 06th, 2020Phil and Maria spent several months in Spain before the pandemic hit. They share what was a typical Spanish breakfast. Served cold it is also a familar tapas item in bars,
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Corona Cookbook: Sydney Sauce
Cooking Down Maine
By: - May 06th, 2020Sydney who lives Down Maine is cursed by shellfish allergy, She still craves lobster in summer with friends. All that it's cracked up to be but for now no longer possible.
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