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  • Lynn Nottage Turns to Opera at Lincoln Center Theater

    Intimate Apparel with Score by Ricky Ian Gordon

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 06th, 2022

    Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LTC,  each tugging for their own interests.

  • The Kind Ones by Miranda Rose Hall

    Produced by Magic Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 07th, 2022

    The Biblically- inspired adage suggests that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and the same could be said of idle minds.  With time to spare, mischief finds Miranda Rose Hall’s central character in this compact, 70 minute, two-hander. 

  • Armature

    World Premiere at South Florida's Island City Stage

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 09th, 2022

    Armature is a searing and disturbing new play receiving a commendable world premiere production at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. The production runs through Feb. 27.

  • World Premiere Opera in Washington

    Four A List Composer/librettist Teams Contribute

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 07th, 2022

    Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.

  • The Obama Portraits Tour

    At the Museum of FIne Arts, Boston

    By: MFA - Feb 09th, 2022

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents the portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, as part of The Obama Portraits Tour organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

  • What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck

    On Tour at the Huntington Theatre

    By: Huntington - Feb 09th, 2022

    The Huntington announces Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me, a Broadway hit that is now on its national tour. The production runs from February 22 to March 20, 2022 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.  

  • Looted 8th Century Buddah Sculpture Found in Italy

    Returned to India

    By: Art Recovery International - Feb 10th, 2022

    An 8th- 9th Century Bodhisattva sculpture, looted from The Devisthan Kundalpur Temple in Kurkihar, Bihar, India, has been recovered in Italy by Art Recovery International following a decades-long search.

  •  Shakespeare & Company Tickets on Sale

    Two Shakespeare Plays and Homer's Iliad

    By: S&Co - Feb 10th, 2022

    Shakespeare & Company has announced tickets are on sale now for the three Classic productions of its 45th Season: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, and An Iliad, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare.  

  • Katori Hall's The Mountaintop

    At MTC in Norwalk

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 12th, 2022

    The Mountaintop features fine performances. It is the type of show that audience members will like, feeling as though they saw something meaningful. I am part of the group that thinks this is a very flawed play that often takes the easy way out.

  • Manhattan Theater Club Revives Skeleton Crew

    Dominique Morisseau's Masterpiece in New York

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 12th, 2022

    For Black History Month, Broadway has opened its arms and stages.  Skeleton Crew, by an honored Black playwright, makes no mention of race. The cast is all Black. The characters are all Black. The city of Detroit, where the play takes place, has been felled by race riots and a hardhit economy. 

  • Once On This Island

    Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 13th, 2022

    Slow Burn Theatre Company has mounted a radiant production of Once On This Island. The musical is a calypso-flavored re-telling of The Little Mermaid. The production runs through Feb. 20 in Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Amaturo Theater.

  • Will the Real Julia Garner Please Stand Up

    From Ozark to Inventing Anna

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 13th, 2022

    Julia Garner's Ruth in the series Ozark could not be more different that Anna in the Shonda Rhimes series Inventing Anna. At 27, with one Emmy under her belt, she's on the prowl for more. Currently I am bingeing her shows on Netflix.

  • Van Cliburn Piano Competition Winner Yekwon Sunwoo

    Berkshire Debut at Mahaiwe in Great Barrington

    By: CEWM - Feb 15th, 2022

    Close Encounters with Music presents the Berkshire debut of Van Cliburn medalist Yekwon Suwoo. The pianist will appear at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington March 20 with acclaimed violinist Daniel Phillips, violist Daniel Panner, and cellist and artistic director Yehuda Hanani. 

  • Loretta Greco New Huntington Theatre Artistic Director

    Joins Company in July

    By: Huntington - Feb 15th, 2022

    The Huntington’s Board of Trustees and Advisors, announced today the appointment of acclaimed stage director, producer, and community builder Loretta Greco as The Huntington’s next Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. She will be the first woman in the role and the fourth artistic leader in The Huntington’s 40-year history.

  • Master Class by Terrence McNally

    Produced by Sonoma Arts Live

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 16th, 2022

    Playwright Terrence McNally’s paean to Maria Callas is less a dramatic narrative than a platform for a virtuoso performance by an actress capable of displaying La Davina’s charisma and self-absorption. Sonoma Arts Live offers an absolutely delightful rendering of this chamber play. 

  • Repertorio Espanol Mounts La Dama Boba

    Lope de Vega Amuses and Moves

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Feb 22nd, 2022

    Lope deVega is not simply setting us up for a good laugh. The play takes a sharp look at the meaning of the ideal woman. What attributes are truly important? Is there room in marriage for the intellectually driven woman? Is there room for the woman who cannot enhance her husband's social standing? Is economic security the real motive for our emotional commitments?

  • 72nd Berlinale - Germany

    February 10-20, 2022

    By: Angelika Jansen - Feb 24th, 2022

    Chapeau! An amazing undertaking has drawn to a close in Berlin, Germany.  Amid still active Covid-19, Marietta Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, the heads of the film festival Berlinale, brought about the 72nd international film festival in real time.

  • Repertorio Resident Director Leyma Lopez

    Feminism in Classic Works

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Mar 21st, 2022

    Leyma Lopez discusses her work with Berkshire Fine Arts

  • Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works.  This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.

  • Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon

    Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts

    By: Arthur Dion - Mar 28th, 2022

    Since its 1897 founding, the Boston Marathon has regularly transformed in its appearance, its demographics, and its meaning.  As its 126th running on April 18 nears, The Lotvin Family Gallery examines how the marathon’s changes have been reflected in the pages of another Boston institution, The Boston Globe, now celebrating its 150th year of publication.

  • Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera

    The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.

  • Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage

    Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 29th, 2022

    Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.

  • Union Protests Against Whitney Museum

    To Leaflet During Gala Opening

    By: Union - Mar 29th, 2022

    Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art will be outside in front of the Museum for tomorrow evening’s VIP opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, handing out leaflets with information about union negotiations. The Union, consisting of almost two hundred professional, facilities and visitor services workers has been negotiating for several months for a first contract.

  • Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints

    Williams College Museum of Art

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 30th, 2022

    The building of wall drawings at MASS MoCA has become a pilgrimage site for Sol LeWitt one of the foremost artists of his generation. They are on semi-permanent display with a contract for 25 years. For a more limited time, through June 11, there is the opportunity to experience the work on a more personal and intimate manner with Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints at the Williams College Museum of Art.

  • Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall

    American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 31st, 2022

    Leave it to Leon Botstein, America’s great educator, to bring Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige to Carnegie Hall, where is premiered in 1943 as a fundraiser for the Russian war effort, (The world turns.) Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson and Langston Hughes were in attendance that evening. Now Botstein conducting is cool.  He often listens and taps his foot, slightly swaying to the improvisatory sections of works performed

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