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The Claim by Tim Cowbury
Produced by Shotgun Players
By: - Oct 18th, 2021In “The Claim,” Serge hails from Congo. Now in the U.K., he seeks asylum. In this farcical three-hander, the immigrant is interrogated by two British bureaucrats – a male who we’ll call A, and a female, who we’ll call B.
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Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
Presented by San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 19th, 2021San Francisco Opera’s current production maximizes the values of the piece through excellent casting, fine musical direction by Eun Sun Kim, and the addition of what amounts to another character, the stunning scenic design by Alexander V. Nichols, under the purview of Director Matthew Ozawa.
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Die Dreigroschenoper at the Berliner Ensemble
By Bertold Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill
By: - Oct 19th, 2021It turned into a shocking success, the opening of the Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera) in November 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Now, almost 100 years later, Bertolt Brecht's work with the music by Kurt Weill, is back at its original showing, now called the Berliner Ensemble at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
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Jazz at the Gateways Inn
Music in Lenox Starts October 21
By: - Oct 20th, 2021A special concert will cap this weekend on Sunday, Oct. 24, when pianist Ted Rosenthal performs his unique interpretations of George Gershwin compositions. Highlighted by his innovative treatment of the legendary Rhapsody in Blue, Ted’s repertoire for this first “tea time jazz special,” is collectively known as Rhapsody in Gershwin.
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Lewis Hine and North Adams Eclipse Mill
Children Once Labored in Artists/ Loft Complex
By: - Oct 22nd, 2021During the era of KIng Cotton North Adams thrived by processing bales shipped north from plantations. The Eclipse Mill produced thread which was woven across the street in the Delftree Mill. Until 1938 the mills employed child labor. During a single visit Lewis Hine created nine photographs outside the mill. These images as well as vintage views of the Eclipse Mill comprise a special exhibition. They flank the entrance ramp to the vast artist/ loft complex. The community based project is an aesthetic, historic and humanistic accomplishment.
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It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021You might consider a review of the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein to be “old hat;” why bother seeing a show with songs that are so familiar to all of us. See it because Ruggiero and the cast take these songs and bring a newness to them with sometimes subtle twists that carry them in the 21st century.
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Remembering Together Collaborative Exhibition
Marking Lives COVID-19 at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
By: - Oct 25th, 2021Marking Lives COVID-19 is a community art project conceived by Concord-based artist Elizabeth Awalt to commemorate the American lives lost to COVID. This exhibition is a realization of the collaborative social media project. It includes North Adams artist Sarah Sutro.
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Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision
Staged in Historic Pittsfield Women's Club Mansion
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The virtual screening of Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision- a walk-through installation performance celebrating the lives of Women of Color will premier on November 5th at 8pm. Set inside a historic Women’s Club mansion in Pittsfield MA, each of the 21 rooms represented a stage or theme of initiation in the lives of Black, Indigenous and Immigrant Women of Color.
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Barrinton Stage Company Program for Veterans
Playwriting Workshop With Mark St, Germain
By: - Oct 28th, 2021Barrington Stage Company will offer a Playwriting Workshop for Veterans under the direction of Barrington Stage Associate Artist and Award-Winning Playwright Mark St. Germain. In this 4-class seminar, students will explore the fundamental craft of playwriting with the goal of every student completing a ten-minute play. The culmination on the fourth and final day of class will be a rehearsal and performance by professional actors.
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Save Broadway from the Grinch
Upcoming Escape Room Challenges People
By: - Oct 30th, 2021Stuart Brown, a theater critic and founder of a 24/7 online radio station devoted to musical theater, has created an escape room through which you strive to save Broadway from the Grinch. The escape room will go live around the first week of December. To access the escape room, go to https://soundsofbroadway.com/escaperoom. The "save Broadway" escape room will join two existing ones on the website.
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Ric Haynes at HallSpace
Soul Boat Paintings
By: - Oct 31st, 2021Ric Haynes is an artist, arts therapist, humanist, and a storyteller. His life has brought him on journeys, both voluntary, and involuntary. Those experiences along with a vivid memory have given Haynes all of the source material he needs to tell his stories.
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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen
Written by Terry Guest, Produced by Theatre Rhinoceros
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Appropriately, Theatre Rhinoceros presents “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” in its new, intimate home in The Castro. Their choice of play to christen the new venue fits like a glove. Thematically, the suitability is clear for the longest running LGBTQ theater company in the universe. And in a setting where the audience can reach out and touch the performers, a small two hander where the actors’ every small gesture can be seen.
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Thomas Wilkins Conducts the BSO
Coleridge-Taylor, Victor Wooten and Duke Ellington At Symphony Hall
By: - Oct 31st, 2021Across the country arts organizations are making a concerted effort to include Americans of color in their presentations. The concert at Symphony Hall in Boston this week was a highly successful concert of inclusion.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents Arvo Part
The Temple of Dendur is a Location Favored by the Composer
By: - Nov 03rd, 2021Arvo Pärt has celebrated birthdays at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His music is often performed at the Temple of Dendur where one wall dances with reflections from a pool of water, reflections that seem to move with the beat of the music. They soothe and elevate, a mood captured by the Nile River in the temple’s original Egyptian location.
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O'Neill's Comedy, Ah Wilderness
Melia Bensussen’s Directorial Debut at Hartford Stage
By: - Nov 06th, 2021Melia Bensussen demonstrates a sure hand with this Eugene O’Neill play set in Connecticut on July 4, 1906. In Ah, Wilderness!, O’Neill who is better known for his dramas of love, loss, disillusionment, self-delusion and alcoholism, shows his lighter touch. It is a family comedy about some of the same subjects but more upbeat.
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Ceramics, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
In the Expanded Field
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Ceramic art works and products have increased substantially in size and expression over the last ten or more years. The sky is the limit here at the current MoCA exhibition and the energy was palpable in the galleries during a rainy Saturday.
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Definition Theatre's Social Justice Film
America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro,
By: - Nov 08th, 2021At a time when we should all be thinking about how America’s history might be taught in all its blood and glory, Definition Theatre succeeds in tossing new ingredients into this steamy pot of burgoo. Its new theatrical film, America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro, is a raw, sad and funny story of a future America, told in four parts.
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MFA Union On Strike November 17
Administration Nickle and Dimeing Staff
By: - Nov 12th, 2021Over 96% of staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,voted to strike on Wednesday, November 17 in support of a fair union contract. Workers in departments across the Museum will picket at 465 Huntington Avenue that day starting at 8:30 am. The MFA Union includes curators, conservators, library workers, public-facing staff, educators, and administrative and professional workers.
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Sovereignty & Indigenous Curation Panel
Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Our panel discussion will consider ways in which the practice of Indigenous curation enacts sovereignty. We will address the various challenges of doing Indigenous curation within and, at times, against art institutions. Our discussion will take into account the difficulties of collaborating across various differences—cultural, disciplinary, educational, etc.—that are specific to exhibiting Indigenous arts.
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Come from Away
National Touring Production in South Florida
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Come from Away is docked in South Florida before heading north. The musical relates the true tale of a small Canadian town that welcomed and cared for stranded passengers on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days after.
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At Clark Art Institute
Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate over Colors
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate over Colors presents a wide array of French color prints from the Clark’s works-on-paper collection, by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Jules Chéret, Maurice Denis, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Édouard Vuillard.
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Arthur Miller's The Price
At GableStage in Coral Gables, a Miami suburb
By: - Nov 15th, 2021GableStage in Southeast Florida is opening its season with Arthur Miller's "The Price." New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport is directing it, based on late Producing Artistic Director Joe Adler's notes. This production of "The Price" marked Adler's last directorial effort at GableStage, where he spent 20 years as Producing Artistic Director. GableStage has dedicated this production to Adler.
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Berkshire Theatre Critics Association
2021 "Berkie" Award Winners
By: - Nov 16th, 2021The big winners of the Berkies were A Crossing: A Dance Musical, presented by Barrington Stage Company, which won the Sally and Robert Sugarman Award for a World Premier of a New Work as well as many acting and design awards, and Nina Simone: Four Women, presented by the Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Ginglold Group at Theatre Row on 42nd Street.
By: - Nov 17th, 2021The funniest complication is that Mrs. Warren has steadfastly refused to reveal who is Vivie’s father; so there is the possibility that it could be Sir George or even the Rev. Samuel, who wasn’t always a man of the cloth.
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The Butterfly Process
Boston Lyric Opera Fires the Canon
By: - Nov 17th, 2021Madama Butterfly inspires a deep look at its historical context through a contemporary lens. Internal and public discussions are part of the project dubbed The Butterfly Process by Boston Lyric Opera.
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