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Playwrite Israel Horovitz at 81
Co Founded Gloucester Stage Company
By: - Nov 12th, 2020Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Shaker Village Contest
Bake the Round Barn
By: - Nov 17th, 2020Get creative in the kitchen. All submissions will be exhibited during Hancock Holidays on Saturday, December 12. Winners receive free membership to the Village and kitchen swag from Shaker Mercantile.
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Clark Art Institute Free Day
First Sunday December 6
By: - Nov 19th, 2020The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, December 6, with a day celebrating music. Admission to the galleries is free all day.
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Kev Berry at The Tank
A Hefty, Engaging Monologue
By: - Nov 19th, 2020Kev Berry is an award-winning playwright and a superb monologist. In Harsh Cacophonies I and II,, he is directed by his usual collaborator, Alex Tobey. The monologue was created in three separate pieces, which can be performed as stand alones. The three are joined for this production and work well together. Two hours fly by, in part because Berry is in a manic state. His speech and stories are always clear, but often rush. This locates us in the urgent terrain from which his stories grow.
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Bard Conservatory Orchestra Features Wesley Sprott
Fanfares, Serenades, Concertina
By: - Nov 20th, 2020Count on Bard to bring us unexpected, deserving programs concert after concert. Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgigues opened this program. The fanfares were conceived as part of Tomasi’s opera Don Juan de Manara. They premiered as a stand alone a decade before the opera opened in Munich. What a splendid work.
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Hancock Shaker Village Thanksgiving
Celebrating a Year Like None Other
By: - Nov 23rd, 2020Hancock Shaker Village felt like a home-away-from-home this year. In a year when we are counting our heroes, the Village has had many.
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Indigenous Artist Bob Haozous
The Racism Shrine in Santa Fe
By: - Nov 23rd, 2020The son of famed artist Allan Houser, Haozous has drawn inspiration from his Apache culture, Indigenous and world art, and from his father’s artworks. “I’ve wanted to make this statement for many years,” said Haozous, artist and Executive Director of the Allan Houser Foundation.
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James Darrah At Boston Lyric Opera
Creating Streamed Productions
By: - Nov 24th, 2020Boston Lyric Opera, ever on the lookout for startling innovations that work, has hired Darrah to produce a stop motion feature-length animated version of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
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Richard Vacca's Bio of Jazzman Freddy Taylor
What, and Give Up Showbiz?: Six Decades in the Music Business
By: - Nov 27th, 2020Fred Taylor breathes life into this narrative, literally having a conversation with you, including many hilarious anecdotes, home-spun punch lines but also always making you feel like you were re-living the moment with him. The Taylor bio has been written by jazz historian Richard Vacca.
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The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts
New, Original Musical Presented As a Radio Series
By: - Nov 28th, 2020South Miami-based Area Stage Company is presenting a new, original musical as an online radio series. The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts takes place in Colorado during the 1960's. Area Stage will present the musical as a four-part radio series. The musical's live world premiere is scheduled for Summer 2021.
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Helping Our Pal Alice Brock
Famed for Berkshire’s Alice’s Restaurant
By: - Nov 28th, 2020Now elderly, infirm, and living in Provincetown, Alice Brock, the famed proprietor of Alice’s Restaurant in the Berkshires, has always helped others. Her restaurants were staffed with friends and neighbors. She was always a soft touch for a free meal, job, or handout. Today it’s Alice, afflicted with ailments, who needs a helping hand.
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Barrington Stage Company 2020 Associate Artists
David Lander, Jeffrey Page and Alysha Umphress.
By: - Nov 30th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces the 2020 Associate Artists – lighting designer David Lander, director/choreographer Jeffrey Page and actress Alysha Umphress.
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Andy On Line
Classic Warhol Films
By: - Dec 03rd, 2020The artist Andy Warhol focused on making "underground movies" from 1963 to 1987. Drawing on his entourage they were primarily shot in his studio known as "The Factory." As art they were deadpan and amateurish. The "actors" were primarily drama queens with no professional training. Andy turned on the camera and let them be themselves. In so doing he captured the flavor and essence of an era. While often enervating to sit through the films offer insidious insights of what was cool and camp during an era of great invention and energy.
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I Am Jacob's Pillow
Help to Rebuild After Recent Fire
By: - Dec 04th, 2020Recently the Doris Duke Theatre of Jacob's Pillow was lost in a fire on November 17. You can help to rebuild this landmark of American dance in the Berkshires.
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Ring In the New Year With New Play Development
Annual Festival Develops New Works
By: - Dec 07th, 2020Palm Beach Dramaworks' third annual New Year/New Plays Festival will take place via Zoom. This year, the South Florida theater company's annual event will last five days, instead of the usual three. Audiences assist in the process of writing new plays by offering feedback.
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Hot Water Tanked
No Big Deal
By: - Dec 08th, 2020My hot water tank blew last week. I went to bed on Friday after a hot shower, and woke up Saturday morning with only cold water. A new hot water tank was installed on Tuesday, and order was restored. Four days of dishes and pans got washed, as did I. No big deal.
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San Francisco's Nutcracker
A Virtual Event
By: - Dec 08th, 2020During this holiday season if you can't get to the Nutcracker it will come to you. The San Francisco Ballet will stream the Sugarplum Fairies to your very own livingroom. Plan on great family entertainment.
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Chicago Girl by Nancy Bishop
A Lively Collection of Essays
By: - Dec 09th, 2020During a year of Covid disruption our theater correspondent, Nancy S. Bishop, has taken time to publish a book of essays. She describes growing up a Cubs fan while pursuing the literary life. Some years ago she went bonkers over Bruce Springsteen. Often with her nephew, she has attended more than 30 concerts. The range of her interests and insights is formidable. Hop on and enjoy the ride for a tour of the Windy City and its arts.
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Barrington Stage Company Awards Spark Grants
Intended to Spark New Work
By: - Dec 09th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), is pleased to announce the first round of Spark Grants of $2,500 each to eleven artists with whom Barrington Stage Company has either collaborated with on past work or looks forward to collaborating with in the future. Each recipient was awarded the grant under the single condition that the money be used to spark the artist’s creativity.
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Norm Lewis Returns to A.R.T.
Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here
By: - Dec 12th, 2020Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here premieres Thursday, December 17 at 8PM and streams on demand through December 31. It is part of the 54 Below Premieres series. Previously he co stared with Audra McDonald in Porgy and Bess at American Repertory Theatre.
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An Iliad Live Streamed
North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Dec 14th, 2020NCRT latest foray into filmed stage plays which ‘opened’ on December 9th is streaming the play “An Iliad” through January 3, 2021. The play, freely, adapted, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare from ancient Greek playwright Homer, creates a modern dress production of Homer’s “Iliad’. Deftly directed by savvy NCRT artistic director David Ellenstein, “An Iliad” stars award winning actor Richard Baird in a powerful, mesmerizing, tour-de-force, performance that leaves the streaming home audience in a state of awe.
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Irish Repertory Theatre's Meet Me In St. Louis
Holiday Treat Directed by Charlotte Moore
By: - Dec 13th, 2020The Irish Repertory Theatre has brought superb streamed theatre to the public this fall. Their most recent production, streaming now, is Meet Me in St. Louis. It is just the right champagne for the holiday season.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
$32.8 Million to Support 213 Projects in 44 States
By: - Dec 16th, 2020The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $32.8 million in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
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Hunt Slonem Reimagines Rabbits
An Artist's Adventures in Wonderland
By: - Dec 17th, 2020For more than five decades artist Hunt Slonem has been painting and reimagining his obsessive motifs: butterflies, birds, bunnies, and portraits of Abraham Lincoln, whom he refers to as his Marilyn. Repetition plays a huge role in his work. Excess and extravagance define his life and art.
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Jacob's Pillow Commitment
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) at Jacob’s Pillow
By: - Dec 17th, 2020As an institution that seeks to unite people and communities by celebrating cultural diversity in dance, Jacob’s Pillow has an ongoing responsibility to challenge white supremacy and to disrupt systems of bias and oppression. For the Pillow, this includes bringing under-recognized artists and stories to our stages, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ artists, as well as increasing support to women choreographers and leaders of companies, and ensuring that people of color who have historically had limited or restricted access have robust opportunities to present, study, and develop work.
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