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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown
Branford’s new Legacy Theatre
By: - Sep 20th, 2021The Last Five Years is a very popular musical with theaters; in part because it only needs two performers and minimal sets/costumes and partly because it tells a universal story of falling both in and out of love.
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Noorrrraaaaaaa after Ibsen
The Gorki Theater, Berlin
By: - Sep 21st, 2021Just be aware. The premiere of Nora at Berlin's smallest theatre, The Gorki Theater, offers anything but the expected story line of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play about a woman stepping out of a comfortable upper middle class family life to become independent.
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Jacob’s Pillow Announces Fall Artist Residencies
Fourth Year of Pillow Lab
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Jacob’s Pillow announces this season’s artist residencies offered at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work. The Fall 2021 recipients include jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, Indigenous Enterprise, Taylor Stanley and Shamel Pitts, and Yve Laris Cohen.
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Billy Crystal at Barrington Stage Company
Mr. Saturday Night a Work in Development
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC),welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal in a presentation of a new musical in development, Mr. Saturday Night, on the Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street) for nine performances. A new musical comedy, Mr. Saturday Night is about one man’s meteoric rise to the middle. The musical is a work in development and will be presented with minimal set and costume pieces.
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Melvin Van Peebles, Going the Distance
An Appreciation
By: - Sep 27th, 2021Melvin Van Peebles, the black entrepreneur, died on September 21. Over the years, brief encounters revealed many of his sparkling facets.
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Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition November 20 to February 20
By: - Sep 28th, 2021Today tattoos are ubiquitous in our culture. The Museum of Fine Arts offers a timely echibition Tattoos in Japanese Prints from November 20 to February 20. The exhibition features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) and his contemporaries—including his colleague and rival Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864) and his pupil Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892).
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Shout! The Mod Musical
At South Bay Musical Theatre
By: - Sep 28th, 2021“Shout! The Mod Musical” is a musical revue of the ‘60s shown through the experiences of five young adult women living in London, as conceived and curated by three American men (of course)! The songbook draws from tunes of the era, predominantly those popularized by English songbirds, especially Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark (“Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Downtown” for starters.)
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Otto Zitko New Works
At Crone Wien in Vienna
By: - Oct 01st, 2021In Otto Zitko’s work, space determines form and content. The central design element is the seemingly endless line running across large-format picture panels, sheets, or walls, which is applied with paint rollers or thick oil pens. Behind the supposedly purely expressive character of his works lies a complex structure of self-organization, the sounding out of physiological movement in space, and different levels of consciousness and energy.
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Haunted Hancock Shaker Village
Spooky Tours
By: - Oct 01st, 2021Peer into hidden spaces, with guides sharing tales of ghosts that dwell here and the Shakers' participation in the Spiritualist Movement.
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Yehuda Hanani and Close Encounters Return
Classic, Jazz, Whimy and Bee Bop in One Splendid Evening
By: - Sep 30th, 2021An invitation to a close encounter with very special music. Paul Schoenfield’s runaway classical hit, Café Music for piano trio, sets the tone for a celebratory re-opening. Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible.
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A Crossing: A Dance Musical
Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021While focused on a group of migrants this is the story of all of us. It conveys an America rooted in exclusion, violence and intolerance. This is a stunning new musical for all Americans.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Denver
Robert Harling's Classic Perfetly Produced
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021Steel Magnolias is staged by the Cherry Creek Theater in Denver, Colorado. This comic tragedy comes alive in a beauty parlor, whose window frames look out on the talk of the town parading by. In the South, men sit under a pecan tree and talk about affairs as if they all had PhDs from Harvard. The women hunker down to have their hair and nails done.
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Performance Artist Tim Youd
100 Novels Project
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Tim Youd has been at work on his 100 Novels Project for about 10 years. The Jungle is #71 and he just finished retyping Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, on a early Remington typewriter at the Arts Club on Ontario Street. Anderson lived nearby (at the corner of what is now Wabash and Superior) when he was writing the book (a short story cycle), published in 1919.
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Eclipse Mill Artists Annual Exhibition
Reconnections 2021
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Eclipse Mill Artists Annual Exhibition, Reconnections 2021, will present the work of 24 artist residents of the North Adams complex. The Annual is a long standing tradition for the artists loft building.
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Arnie Reisman Journalist, Playwright, Poet at 79
Resident of Martha’s Vineyard
By: - Oct 05th, 2021Arnie Reisman, a Martha Vineyard resident died suddenly. He was 79. Starting as editor of the Brandeis University Justice he was later editor of the weekly Boston After Dark/ Phoenix. He was a prolific documentary filmmaker and playwright as well as publisher of several books of poetry. With his wife Paula Lyons, he was also a panelist on NPR’s Says You!, the long-running comedy quiz show. His documentary The Powder and the Glory was the basis of the Broadway show War Paint.
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Scenes from a Marriage on HBO
Remake of Ingmar Bergman Film
By: - Oct 06th, 2021Israeli filmmaker Hagai Levi decided he wanted to do a more modern updated version of Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 seminal film “Scenes from a Marriage” that originally starred Liv Ullman, Erland Joseph, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjo, and Gunnel Lindblom. However, writer/adaptor/director Levi trimmed several characters for his 2021 version.
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A.R. Gurney's Sylvia in Arvada Colorado
Brilliant Production of an Odd Love Triangle
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia had a 1995 production in New York featuring Charles Kimbrough, Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker. It is one of Gurney’s most frequently produced plays. A husband in mid-life crisis would prefer the compansionship of a dog to a mistress.
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Clark Presents Zoom Lecture on Stockbridge-Munsee Community
By Heather Bruegl, Director of Education at Forge Project
By: - Oct 07th, 2021On Saturday, October 16, Heather Bruegl, Director of Education at Forge Project, discusses the history of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, the indigenous people who once lived on these lands.
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The Twentieth Century Way
At Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Island City Stage's first-ever production was of Tom Jacobson's play, The Twentieth Century Way. To kick off its 10th anniversary season, Island City Stage is reviving The Twentieth Century Way. The play focuses on two out-of-work actors in 1914 who hired themselves out to the Long Beach, Calif. Police Department to entrap "social vagrants (homosexuals)".
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The Porch at Windy Hill
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Blue grass and Appalachian music usually isn’t my thing, but my toes were tapping while enjoying the play-with- music, The Porch at Windy Hill now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, Oct. 17.
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The Helbing Mentorship Program
For LGBTQIA+ Arts Writers
By: - Oct 11th, 2021The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces The Helbing Mentorship Program. Under the program, LGBTQIA+ arts writers will work with leading theater critics to imrpove their craft and publish their work. The year-long program, which will begin in September 2022, includes a $5,000 grant.
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Every Brilliant Thing
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Duncan MacMillan’s award-winning, 60-minute, one-person play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” centers on a list reflective of obsessive compulsion. The narrator/protagonist itemizes everything worth living for. Remarkably, he starts the list at age seven.
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Facing Columbus
Four Italian American Artists at NY's Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Italian American Artists Grapple with Christopher Columbus's Legacy at MAD Museum. The Museum of Arts and Design will host 4 NYC artists of Italian heritage for a discussion about the colonial legacy of Christopher Columbus and his importance to the Italian American community.
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Diversity at The Metropolitan Opera
Composer Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up In My Bones
By: - Oct 14th, 2021The Metropolitan Opera got a public relations boost when they mounted Terrence Blanchard’s ""Fire Shut up in My Bones" as their season opener. An unusually packed theater sweetened the Met's premiere. No question "Fire" is a wonderful piece of orchestral work. Elements of black folk music like gospel, jazz, and stepping, fit seamlessly into the overall scheme.
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Songs for a New World
Ft. Lauderdale's Slow Burn Theatre Company
By: - Oct 14th, 2021Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale has mounted a sizzling production of the musical theater show, "Songs for a New World." The production runs through Oct. 24 in the intimate Amaturo Theater within the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. This plotless hybrid of musical and song cycle features musical numbers connected by a theme. The composer and lyricist is Jason Robert Brown, of "Parade," and "The Bridges of Madison County" fame.
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