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  • Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta

    At A Red Orchid Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 04th, 2022

    Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere. 

  • Figuration Reconsidered

    Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World

    By: Martin Mugar - May 05th, 2022

    The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.

  • Nicole Chesney: Albedo

    On View at Gallery NAGA

    By: NAGA - May 05th, 2022

    Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body. 

  • Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive

    May On LIne Exhibition

    By: Perri Neri - May 09th, 2022

    Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.  

  • The Belle of Amherst

    This Time in Front of a Live Audience.

    By: Aaron Krause - May 09th, 2022

    Palm Beach Dramaworks, which co-produced 'The Belle of Amherst' last year, will remount the production in front of a live audience. Last year, the pandemic prevented audience members and performers from being in the same space. The remount will run from May 20-June 5.

  • Come to the Berkshires This Summer!

    New Amtrak Trains

    By: Amtrak - May 08th, 2022

    Amtrak just launched a new seasonal service that will make it easier to enjoy the quaint towns and majestic views of Massachusetts' Berkshires. The new route, called the Berkshire Flyer, will shuttle passengers between New York City and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, beginning July 8 and operate on weekends throughout the summer.

  • Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage Company

    10th Anniversary of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center

    By: Barrington - May 10th, 2022

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), celebrates the 10th Anniversary and Re-Opening of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with Broadway’s Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, Hamilton, Carousel) in an Encore Concert, Joshua Henry Up Close, on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m.

  • The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall

    Adventures in Music

    By: Susan Hall - May 10th, 2022

    The T?N orchestra will perform an adventuresome program twice in New York, this week and next.  They will feature the works of William Grant Still, Carlos Chávez, Witold Lutoslaski and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.  

  • X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X 

    Pulitzer Prize Winner by Composer Anthony Davis

    By: BMOP - May 11th, 2022

    The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Odyssey Opera, two of today’s leading innovators on the classical musical scene, present the New England premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986) on June 17, 2022, at the Strand Theatre, a short distance from the house where Malcolm Little lived in his teenage years in Roxbury. This sprawling, genre-bending biographical opera unfolds the astonishing life of one of the most misunderstood men in history.

  • Phil Kline Coming to MASS MoCA

    Bang on a Can Member is a Musical Omnivorei

    By: Susan Hall - May 17th, 2022

    Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music over three days throughout the museum’s expansive campus. Phil Kline will be featured.  With Jim Jarmsuch he will be improvising on loud guitar,

  • for colored girls who have considered suicide

    Ntozake's Classic Lives at the Booth Theater

    By: Rachel de Aragon - May 19th, 2022

    "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf " is having a brilliant re-incarnation. The stage is lit only by the abstract chiaroscuro photos projected on soft screen, like the hazy landscape. A quiet light  reveals Lady In Brown (Tendayi Kuumba)  as this  rhythmic dance poem begins.  “Dark phases of womanhood , of never having been a girl..”  Her movements are as powerful and sensuous as the words,  with a spiritual nod to African roots.  

  • Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)

    By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre

    By: v - May 19th, 2022

    I know.  Your first question will be “What’s with that name?”  Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play.  It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative. 

  • Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend

    Lineup for June 17-19 Festival

    By: Ed Bride - May 20th, 2022

    Event to feature jazz in the park, brunches, and headline performersKarrin Allyson, Houston Person, Michael Benedict and Bopitude  

  • Large Works by Philip Malicoat

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum

    By: PAAM - May 20th, 2022

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.   

  • Puppetopia Festival at HERE

    Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents

    By: Susan Hall - May 21st, 2022

    The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama  Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year.  its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program.  Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022.  Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.

  • Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame

    Produced by West Bay Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - May 24th, 2022

    Despite the difficulty of casting Russian language opera, two are present in the American repertoire, “Eugene Onegin” and “Pique Dame” (“Queen of Spades” in English).  Although the former premiered 11 years earlier than the latter, they share the same DNA, including source material derived from Alexander Pushkin.

  • Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull

    At Chicago's Steppenwolf

    By: NAGA - May 25th, 2022

    Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.

  • installation by Azza El Siddique

    At MIT List Visual Arts Center

    By: List - May 25th, 2022

    This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.

  • Faerie Festival Returns on June 18

    North Adams Event Honors Phil Sellers

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 27th, 2022

    Artist activist, Phil Sellers and his wife Gail were part of the team behind the Faerie Festival in North Adams. He passed away in July 2020. After a hiatus The Faerie Festival is revised in his honor on June 18 from 10 AM to 10 PM.

  • Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad

    MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.

    By: S&Co - May 27th, 2022

    Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.

  • Portland Museum of Art to Expand

    Launches Design Competition

    By: PMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, announced today the launch of an international design competition for its campus unification and expansion.

  • Williams College Museum of Art Expands

    SO-IL Architects Selected

    By: WCMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    SO-IL architects selected to design the first stand-alone building for the Williams College Museum of Art. New facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will transform the museum’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community and the Berkshires cultural region.

  • Jesus Christ Superstar

    50th Anniversary Rouring Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 02nd, 2022

    The Olivier Award-winning 50th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in Miami. The production originated at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. At the center of the production is a very human Jesus.

  • Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding

    TheaterWorks in Hartford

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 03rd, 2022

    Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding now playing at TheaterWorks in Hartford looks at what happens when the “perfect” part of the wedding doesn’t happen. Playwright Matthew López has combined humor (some farce, some slapstick) with an insightful understanding of our need for human connection and love.

  • Cats With Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber

    Produced by Troika Entertainment, at Golden Gate Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 03rd, 2022

    Who could predict that such a musical would set performance records for both the West End (21 years) and Broadway (a mere 18 years)?  But innovation doesn’t put butts in seats.  So, what propelled “Cats” to immortal fame?

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