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Working Based on Studs Terkel
Modern Theatre Boston
By: - Mar 22nd, 2023WORKING celebrates the everyday laborers who create purpose in their lives by doing their life’s work. Ever wonder what your teacher is really thinking? Does your waiter really want you to, “enjoy your meal”? Witness these often unsung employees take center stage and tell their side of the story.
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Elvis Costello at Tanglewood
Added to Popular Artists Series
By: - Mar 28th, 2023The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces that Elvis Costello and The Imposters with Charlie Sexton as special guest have joined the lineup for the Popular Artists Series at Tanglewood. This will be the 2003 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s first appearance at Tanglewood.
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ICA Foster Prize Winners
Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu
By: - Mar 29th, 2023Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu have been named the recipients of the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. Their exhibition at the ICA, on view August 24–January 2, will encompass a wide range of media—from sculpture and installation to time-based media and works on paper.
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Blithe Spirit
Fun With Farce And Fantasy
By: - Apr 03rd, 2023The flamboyant bon vivant Noël Coward excelled in many aspects of the performing arts, but he is best remembered today as a playwright who exposed the foibles of English society in several between-the-wars, comedy-of-manners plays. The last of these was “Blithe Spirit.” Many of us, having seen the movie and perhaps productions of the play as well, may wish to pass on seeing this war horse once again. That would be a mistake. City Lights has produced a sparkling rendition that hits the mark on every measure.
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Refuge
Rolling World Premiere at Theatre Lab in South Florida
By: - Apr 12th, 2023As part of a rolling world premiere, Refuge is running at Theatre Lab in Boca Raton, Fl. in an intense and believable production through April 23. The production features music, magical realism, and puppets. Refuge is about the migration crisis, but does not deal with politics. Rather, it is a piece brimming with humanity.
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The Barnes Foundation Looks at South Africa
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye Encourgae Remembrance
By: - Apr 11th, 2023In their respective practices, Sue Williamson (b. 1941) and Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990) incorporate oral histories into films, photographs, installations, and textiles to consider how the stories our elders tell us shape family narratives and personal identities. Implicitly and explicitly addressing legacies of racial violence and social injustice, their work offers a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration.
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Grand Horizons
A New Look on Life Late in Life
By: - Apr 11th, 2023Bill and Nancy have been married for 50 years, and on the surface, they have been happy, or at least content. But when they dispassionately announce their decision to divorce to their visiting adult sons, Brian and Ben, the boys are flabbergasted. As expected, they have questions like “What happened?” but worse, they have answers, like “We can fix this,” as if the breakup could be within their control. And when they finally realize that it could actually happen, it’s “Why couldn’t you get divorced when we finished school, like normal people?”
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Mandy Patinkin at Barrington Stage
Performs June 27
By: - Apr 18th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces that Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to the Boyd-Quinson Stage for one night only on Tuesday, June 27.
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Windhover Center for the Performing Arts and Gloucester 400+
Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye Adapted and Directed by Peter Littlefield
By: - Apr 24th, 2023In the heart of Cape Ann, with its boulders and cellar holes, Dogtown Common stokes the cauldron of witchcraft and early New England mythology. Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield will be performed at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma.
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Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Abbreviated "War and Peace" at a Breakneck Pace with Song
By: - Apr 25th, 2023The simple storyline centers on Natasha, betrothed to Prince Andrey, who has been sent to fight against Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. But when she visits Moscow, Natasha is taken with womanizer Anatole, and decides to abandon Andrey for the more glamorous option. Things don’t go as planned. The end.
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Sweat
Main Street Players in Miami Lakes
By: - May 03rd, 2023Lynn Nottage's drama, "Sweat" serves as a cautionary play about what can happen when unrestrained, explosive emotions flow during especially tense, sensitive times. Main Street Players in Miami Lakes, a professional, nonprofit company, is presenting a stellar production through May 14. "Sweat" takes place during the turbulent 2000s in a blue-collar community in Pennsylvania.
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New Federal Theatre Tells Tales
Underbellies of the Harlem Renaissance Directed by Woodie King, Jr.
By: - May 04th, 2023Four women writers of the Harlem Renaissance meet in "Telling Tales Out of School" by Wesley Brown, directed by Woodie King, Jr.
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Feria de Sevilla (Seville April Fair)
A Most Spectacular Festival You've Never Heard Of
By: - May 07th, 2023When booking our trip, we didn't know of Feria, a one-week celebration of community and Seville's history with livestock markets and flamenco that began in 1846. But when our new friend Carlos invited us to join him in going to the fair, we jumped on it. Feria takes place one week in April each year on 25 urban blocks that lie mostly barren except for preparation and celebration of Feria. Imagine the value of the property designated for this one event!
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The Rembrandt
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - May 12th, 2023Rembrandt, the play at TheaterWorks Hartford through Sunday, May 14, is part meditation on art and part a very human exploration of love, dying and grieving
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Off Limits for Critics
No Coverage Allowed This Summer
By: - May 24th, 2023The once fabled Williamstown Theatre Festival, under interim artistic director Jenny Gersten, has cut back this season.
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What she learned from plants at Gloucester Writers Center
By Peter Littlefield Directed by Roy Rallo
By: - May 31st, 2023Lately I've been writing little metaphysical screenplays for dolls, dogs and humans. My friend Roy Rallo - with whom I work in opera - has been shooting them with my help.
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Curtis Stewart Erupts at Merkin Hall
Kaufman Music Center Produces Ecstatic Music
By: - Jun 04th, 2023Curtis Stewart is a man for all seasons. He took over Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center this week. When you hear him, you know that Nietzsche was right: without music, life would be a mistake.
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A Soldier's Play
Murder, Mystery, and Racism on the Home Front During World War II
By: - Jun 05th, 2023In 1944, African-American military units were always commanded by white officers, with black non-coms, and enlisted men, reflecting the plantation structure that preceded it by a century and more. This organization represents the natural order to Captain Charles Taylor, a West Point grad, who happily manages and cajoles a platoon comprised of talented black baseball players who will get to play the Yankees if they continue to win all of their games. To this day, a common condition persists, that racists like Taylor often carve out exceptions to allow minority peoples to reflect glory on their white overlords.
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Be Bamboo
By: - Jun 08th, 2023A freak June storm, an ever-more-common aberration in these times of climate change-induced storms, befell the northern Berkshires last week. It offered five inches of rain, and an hour’s worth of half-inch hail that left the ground looking as though it had snowed. The results were devastating to the meditation garden I have been building for 4 years.
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Clark Art Institute Concerts
Five Free Performances
By: - Jun 08th, 2023The Clark Art Institute debuts a five-part outdoor concert series this summer. The Clark presents Hermanos Gutiérrez on June 28, Joe Henry on July 5, Makaya McCraven on July 12, Darlingside on July 19, and Kathleen Edwards on August 8. All performances are free and take place at 6 pm near the Reflecting Pool.
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss's Lush Music, Captivating Fairy Tale Story, and Pop Art Scenery.
By: - Jun 12th, 2023The Empress faces Sophie’s choice. Either decision - to accept or reject the shadow - could leave blood on her hands. High drama occurs with real or perceived betrayals and threats of killing, but since nobody dies, some would characterize “Die Frau” as a comedy!
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Susan Rennie Subverts the Male Gaze
Artist's Work on View in Venice, California
By: - Jun 16th, 2023Long before the Brooklyn Museum discovered the notorious Hannah Gadsby of "Nanette" and engaged her services as a curator of Pablo Picasso, Susan Rennie was gripped by the idea that art most often was created by the male gaze.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery
Horse Opera Presents Large Pastel Drawings
By: - Jun 17th, 2023Gabrielle Barzaghi is one of the leading contemporary artists residing on Cape Ann. Horse Opera is Barzaghi's fourth solo exhibition at the Matthew Swift Gallery, and presents a significant new body of her work comprising more than a dozen drawings.
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Experiments in Opera Presents Anthony Braxton
Feisty Opera Company Improvises at The Brick
By: - Jun 18th, 2023In 1999, Anthony Braxton caught the performance of an Improv group at Wesleyan College where he has taught for twenty-three years. Among its members was Lin Manuel Miranda. He picked a trooper and asked him to do an improvisation with him. The duo, collaborating on compositions 279 to 283, was the inspiration for this funny, hip and moving improv designed by Experiments in Opera (EiO).
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