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Milk and Honey
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida
By: - Oct 25th, 2022The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton has mounted an impressive production of the rarely-produced musical, "Milk and Honey." The production runs through Nov. 6. "Milk and Honey" takes place in early 1960's Israel. The plot focuses on a lover affair, set against the backdrop of Israel trying to gain recognition as an independent nation.
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La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
West Bay Opera
By: - Oct 26th, 2022As usual, General Director and Conductor José-Luis Moskovich marshals a fine orchestra and production. Of course, the party scenes in particular require special attention, and director Igor Vieira ensures their grandeur.
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Manship Artists Residency
Betty Schlemm Silent Auction
By: - Oct 29th, 2022Curator Susan Erony presented a talk about Schlemm's career and impact on Cape Ann and throughout the world of watercolor artists, followed by remembrances from family and friends. The exhibition is now available online as a silent auction.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
German Director Edward Berger Remakes 1930 Double Oscar Winner.
By: - Oct 30th, 2022In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published the controversial anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. It follows the tale of Paul and his classmates who enlisted to fight for the Fatherland. One by one they died until Paul, the last, is killed by a sniper in the final minutes before Armistice. Just a year later Hollywood released the classic film which won two Oscars. Now available on Netflix is an epic, cinematic, gruesome remake by the German director Edward Berger. The spectacular retelling is disrespectful in selecting some and discarding many of the plot points and metaphors of a literary masterpiece.
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Shakespeare & Company
By: - Nov 01st, 2022Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley is presented in honor of Shakespeare & Company Costume Director Govane Lohbauer, and in memory of actor, teacher, and weapons master Bob Lohbauer,who passed away in September 2022.
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Alice Denison: Posy Riot
Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Nov 02nd, 2022Alice Denison refers to this large body of work as her Pangloss series and they are rooted in her interest in ornately rendered plants and flowers. At once dreamlike and mysterious with a tangle of floating flora, they are now beginning to allude to a real place—it’s as if the tapestry has been lifted to reveal a distant landscape.
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'62 Center at Williams College
Theatre and Dance
By: - Nov 02nd, 2022Upcoming at the Williams College '62 Center are theater and dance performances. THEATRE: A LOVE STORY By Caridad Svichm directed by Emmanuelle Delpech and Pachedu (F)ALL Ensembles.
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Rose B. Simpson Legacies
Boston's Instutute of Contemporary Art
By: - Nov 03rd, 2022Through January 29 the Institute of Contemporary Art is displayng a gallery with 11 totemic ceramic standing figures by Rose B. Simpson. A graduate of RISD she grew up in a culture noted for its distinctive pottery created by her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, her late grandmother, Rina Swentzell and her late great-grandmother, Rose Naranjo.
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Pie in the Sky on Acorn
Must See TV
By: - Nov 04th, 2022In every sense Richard Thomas Griffiths OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was a larger than life actor. We subscribe to Acorn through Amazon Prime. It offers a menu of British, Australian and New Zeland programs. Lately we have been binge watching Griffiths in five seasons as chef detective Henry Crabbe in "Pie in the Sky." You might also know him from appearances in Harry Potter films. On stage he won numerous awards including a Tony and Laurence Olivier Award.
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Fall Festival of Shakespeare
Schedule of School Performances
By: - Nov 06th, 2022Now in its 34th year, the Fall Festival of Shakespeare leads students at 11 high schools in Massachusetts and New York through a language-based exploration of Shakespeare's plays. This work culminates in full-scale productions at their own schools as well as the Main Stage at the Tina Packer Playhouse during a raucous, four-day celebration.
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Gimme Gamay
Underdog Wine Poured at Mezze
By: - Nov 08th, 2022Did you hear the one about the time the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold, outlawed the cultivation of Gamay back in 1385? He claimed it was a "disloyal and bad plant." He reserved his region for the more elegant Pinot Noir. You may wonder why we have such an affection for Gamay at Mezze. We often root for the underdog.
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Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Nov 08th, 2022Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home, her second solo exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, features two discreet series of new ceramic sculpture. Inspired by diverse cultural traditions, Schön employs both ancient and contemporary technologies in her sculptural interpretations.
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Hubbard Hall Presents Còig
Returns from Nova Scotia
By: - Nov 11th, 2022“We all come from sort of a traditional background, but then we have different influences that we’re interested in,” explains fiddler and singer Rachel Davis. “Chrissy (Crowley, fiddler) likes to dive into a lot of world music, Darren (mandolin, guitar, banjo, etc.) comes from a kind of Irish theme from playing around a lot. More of the traditional Cape Breton stuff is really what I love, plus all the folk songs, so it’s an interesting mix.”
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Berlin Philharmonic Entertains at Carnegie Hall
Kirill Petrenko Helps Make Mahler Fun
By: - Nov 11th, 2022The Berlin Philharmonic, inarguably the greatest symphony orchestra in the world, came to New York to show us how much fun music can be. Their showpiece example, the famously tormented Gustav Mahler.
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Michaelina Wautier at the MFA
First Major Exhibition of Dutch Artist
By: - Nov 14th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the first exhibition in the Americas dedicated to the art of Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689), a painter from Brussels all but forgotten until the recent rediscovery of her work.
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Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards
Outstanding Work Recognized
By: - Nov 15th, 2022Top honors at the Berkies were Outstanding Musical Production to Barrington Stage Company for their production of A Little Night Music. Barrington Stage shared the Outstanding Play Production award with Bridge Street Theatre, for productions of Waiting for Godot and A Long Day’s Journey Into Night respectively.
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MASS MOCA Schedule
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Cape Ann Museum Book Launch
Gloucester Encounters: Essays on the Cultural History of the City from 1623-2023.
By: - Nov 21st, 2022The Cape Ann Museum’s auditorium was packed for a Sunday afternoon book launch. Edited by Martin Ray, Gloucester Encounters: Essays on the Cultural History of the City from 1623-2023, is a compendium of 37 largely community based essays on aspects of Gloucester’s lifestyle, issues and concerns.
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At the Manship Artist Residency
All About Quarries, Ponds, and Rocks!
By: - Nov 22nd, 2022All about quarries, ponds and rocks! This article presents a photo and word essay - in the format that I have exhibited at the Eclipse Mill as well as this summer/fall at the Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams, MA.
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Michael Cunningham's The Hours for Opera
The Author Loves Philip Glass and Awaits Kevin Puts
By: - Nov 22nd, 2022Before he writes in the morning, Michael Cunningham as always listened to PHilip Glass's music. Serendiptiy brought Glass's score to the Stephen Daldry film based on Cunningham's book, The Hours. He discusses the works with Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Tom Stoppard’s Leoopoldstadt.
Now On Broadway
By: - Nov 25th, 2022Whether this is autobiographical or only suggested by Stoppard’s family, it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is the brilliant acting and story-telling.
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Christmas Theatre In NY and Connecticut
Family Holiday Fun
By: - Nov 27th, 2022What happens when you combine A Christmas Carol and Sherlock Holmes? You end up with A Sherlock Carol which is returning to off-Broadway. In this version through Sunday, Jan. 1, Holmes is called in by an adult Tiny Time to investigate the death of Scrooge.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 28th, 2022Christoph Willibald Gluck’s contributions to opera extend beyond the merits of his individual operas. Like Richard Wagner a century later, Gluck conceived an intellectual framework that changed the opera landscape.
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Clark Art Exhibition
Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
By: - Nov 29th, 2022The exhibition, Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, includes a selection of eighty-four studies, architectural plans, albums, sketchbooks, prints, and optical devices that expand our understanding of drawing as a tool of documentation and creation in the age of Enlightenment.
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Twelve Angry Men
Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Nov 30th, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in Southeast Florida is preparing to mount a production of the classic courtroom drama, "Twelve Angry Men." The play's basis is the Academy Award winning 1957 film with the same title. PBD's production will run through Dec. 24 at PBD's intimate venue in West Palm Beach.
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