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  • Death of a Salesman

    Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 07th, 2024

    Palm Beach Dramaworks delivers an award-worthy production of "Death of a Salesman." The company's mounting of Arthur Miller's masterpiece runs through April 20.

  • Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix

    Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 22nd, 2022

    Julia Bullock has made a big opera career outside conventional wisdom. At the Aix Festival in Provence this year she sang Olivier Messiaen's Harawi, a challenging work to which she brings unusual insights.

  • The Nose at the Munich Opera

    Russian Dissident Kirill Serebrennikov

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 21st, 2022

    Kirill Serebrennikov, the brilliant Russian director, brought The Nose to Munich via Zoom. He is detained by the Russian government in Moscow. The production is superb.

  • Nan and the Lower Body by Jessica Dickey

    TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 18th, 2022

    The play opens with Dr. Pap addressing a classroom – the audience.  The content of the lecture is unimportant, yet those brief moments absolutely hook the viewer.  There is no waiting to get involved with the story line. 

  • La Belle et la Bête by Philip Glass

    Opera Adapted from Cocteau

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 15th, 2022

    n Philip Glass’s adaptation of a trilogy of Cocteau films to opera (the others being “Orphée” and “Les Enfants Terribles,” both previously produced by Opera Parallèle), the composer saved his most imaginative treatment for this most uncommon love story. 

  • Jeremy Denk and Maria Wloszczowska

    The 92nd Street Y Presents Bach

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 09th, 2022

    Jeremy Denk is a world class pianist and writer. Recently he performed Bach violin sonatas with a magnificent young violinist, Maria Wloszczowska at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York. 

  • Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group

    Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 02nd, 2022

    Covid delayed the opening of Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group by two years. It was worth the wait with a tasty buffet dinner on opening night at Berkshire Art Museum in downtown North Adams. The former church houses the Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation, Most of the church displays a permanent installation of his work. The three levels of the tower galleries has a lively display of works by diners and artists.

  • Eva Luna Dramatized at Repertorio Espanol

    Storytelling Honored on Stage

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 30th, 2022

    Repertorio Espanol presents big theater in a compact space. Productions are often not only intense but sprawling in their content. The trick of compacting large stories in a small space is one of the company’s specialties. Eva Luna, Caridad Svich’s apt dramatization of Isabel Allende's big third novel, gives ample opportunity to display these skills.

  • Bousquet Jazz Festival

    Thursday, June 30

    By: Jazz - Jun 27th, 2022

    First annual Bousquet Fazz Festival is free. Thursday June 30 at the base of Bousquet Ski slopes in Pittsfield.

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    A Production by GableStage Near Miami

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 21st, 2022

    A powerful production of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is running through June 26 at GableStage in Coral Gables (suburban Miami). In "The Year of Magical Thinking," author and journalist Joan Didion recounts the year following her husband's sudden death. The basis for the play adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is the award-winning memoir by Joan Didion.

  • Ringo to Starr at Tanglewood Afterall

    The tour Now Begins September 5

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 16th, 2022

    Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band - Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter - revealed the revised itinerary for their September tour, includes all 12 of the dates that they recently had to postpone.  The tour now begins September 5 at Tanglewood, in Lenox, MA and concludes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 20.

  • The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

    Produced by Marin Theatre Company

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 03rd, 2022

    A relationship staple in the catalog of dramatic themes is that of professor and student.  Traditionally, the professor is a man who takes sexual or emotional advantage of a female student, but that formula has diversified in recent decades.

  • Jane Hudson Paintings: Spirit/ Nature

    David & Joyce Milne Public Library

    By: MPL - May 29th, 2022

    Jane Hudson is showing works from a series begun in the dead of winter. These ‘orb’ images speak to various states of mind, cosmic influence and radiant energy. As the winter has led beyond the darkness of space, the source of all our inspiration, and turns to another ratio of light to dark, and the emergence of Sunlight, growth and the fruitful hope of Spring on the Earth.   

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues

    Down and Out in Paris in the 1970s

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 11th, 2022

    The Dishwasher Dialogues is a tale of being down and out in Paris in the 1970s. George James Light and Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi share tales of staying alive working at Chez Haynes a soul food restaurant. It reads like a hipster's Beggars Opera. Literally this is a saga from rags to almost riches.

  • The English Concert at Carnegie Hall

    Harry Bicket Delights with Handel

    By: Susan Hall - May 11th, 2022

    Long before Richard Powers wrote the mega bestseller "Overstory" celebrating man’s relationship with trees, Handel wrote one of the most beautiful arias in the history of song. The cruel King Serse (Xerxes in Plutarch)  opens the opera named for him with an aria celebrating a tree’s understory, its shade. Emily D’Angelo, a glorious mezzo who has graduated from Cinderella’s Prince to a role as King this season, was masterful in her presentation of this love song to a tree.  To be sure, it’s a bit weird.  So too the tangled love relationships in this opera.

  • Igor Levit and the NYPhil at Carnegie Hall

    Brahms and Bartok Dramas Unfold

    By: Susan Hall - May 08th, 2022

    The New York Philharmonic returned to Carnegie  Hall, its home until 1962, for a splendid concert. Both works performed reference death.  Brahms had been close to Robert Schumann, who died during the composition of the composer’s 1st piano concerto.  Bartok himself was deathly ill when he wrote the Concerto for Orchestra at a Saranac Lake health resort. 

  • Alice Childress at Theatre for a New Audience

    Brilliant Production Highlights a Formidable Playwright

    By: Susan Hall - May 06th, 2022

    Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) brings us Alice Childress’ 1962 play, Wedding Band.  It is set in a South Carolina backyard and the bedroom of Julia Augustine, a Black seamstress who is loud and proud with her neighbors, and a soft and loving companion to a German baker, Herman.  He is white. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary of not-being-married,. Miscegenation is banned by law.

  • Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out

    Broadway Revival at Helen Hayes Theater

    By: Karen Isaacs - May 04th, 2022

    Take a star baseball player who is talented, thoughtful and charismatic and see what happens when he announces that he is gay. What is the effect on his longtime friend? the locker room? What happens later on when a red-neck rookie is called up from the minor leagues? Does this one announcement cause a championship team to struggle?

  • Barrington Stage Company

    Broadway's Best

    By: BSC - Apr 29th, 2022

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces Summer 2022 Events with Broadway’s Best at the Boyd-Quinson Stage and the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.

  • Wine Australia’s Marketing GM Paul Turale

    Looking Up Down Under

    By: Australia - Apr 27th, 2022

    Wine Australia has announced the appointment of its new General Manager of Marketing Paul Turale, commencing 30 May 2022.

  • Philip Glass Premiere at The Crypt

    Wendy Sutter Performs on Cello

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 26th, 2022

    The suite drew praise from audiences and critics world-widewide and was voted best new CD of the year by listeners of National Public Radio. The Crypt Sessions return with the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Songs and Poems II written for – and performed by – the magnificent Wendy Sutter, whom the Wall St. Journal casually hailed as “one of the great leading cellists of the classical stage.” 

  • Emmanuel Iduma Earns AICA Prize

    Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism

    By: AICA - Apr 26th, 2022

    Emmanuel Iduma’s prize is in memory of Irving Sandler, esteemed art critic and valued board member and friend, who tirelessly illuminated the role of art, artists and art criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries. The award includes a gift of $2,500.

  • Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias

    Produced by California's CVREP

    By: Jack Lyons - Apr 20th, 2022

    Latina/American born in Mexico, Karen Zacharias bases her “Native Gardens” comedy on her book of the same name, becoming the most produced playwright in America over the last four years.   Her plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, The Book Club, and Legacy of Light, among many others

  • Jeremy Gill's Motherwhere Premiers in New York

    Parker Quartet and New York Classical Players Shine

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 15th, 2022

    Jeremy Gill’s Motherwhere premiered with the two stellar ensembles, the Parker Quartet and the New York Classical Player, performing. The evening began with Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile from his first string quartet.  Madeline Fayette performed the movement exquisitely. She is known for her phrasing and the beauty of her tones. Gill's new rod followed.

  • Guys and Dolls

    South Florida's MNM Theatre Company

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 09th, 2022

    MNM Theatre Company achieves mixed results with its current production of "Guys and Dolls." The production at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center runs through April 16. MNM Theatre Company is an award-winning, not-for-profit, professional group.

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