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Tootsie On Broadway
Musical Adaptation Continues Through Jan. 5.
By: - Nov 19th, 2019Tootsie features a Tony-winning performance by actor Santino Fontana. The musical adaptation of the popular 1982 film continues through Jan. 5. The stage show is a big, splashy and funny musical comedy.
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Tristan and Isolde Act II at Lincoln Center
White Light Festival Features Goerke and Gould
By: - Nov 18th, 2019Inducing current audiences to listen to Wagner operas is difficult. Ninety minutes seems to perfect time slot for young people. Wagner's operas can last for six hours. Can they be cut? Probably not without violating their essence. Producing an Act in concert form makes sense. The White Light Festival presented a spectacular concert based on Act II of Tristan and Isolde.
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Bull in a China Shop By Bryna Turner
At Aurora Theatre
By: - Nov 16th, 2019What surprises about Bull in a China Shop is the tone that the playwright Bryna Turner adopts, despite the fact that it is a biographical sketch focused on serious events
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Mallon’s Fellow Travelers
Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Nov 15th, 2019Boston Lyric Opera has once again successfully adapted and tackled politically and socially topical subjects in “Fellow Travelers”, an opera by Gregory Spears with Libretto by Greg Pierce. It is based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Mallon.
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Ain’t Too Proud by Dominique Morisseau
Temptations on Broadway
By: - Nov 15th, 2019Ain’t Too Proud could not exist without high energy performances of the Temptations songs, and they are so authentic, you’d think you’re seeing the actual group. The mix of voices backed by an 18-piece orchestra along with Sergio Trujillo’s exciting choreography hit the mark.
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Chicago Actor Larry Neumann Jr.
Conversation with Nancy Bishop
By: - Nov 11th, 2019Larry Neumann Jr. is known as one of Chicago’s finest character actors. I have seen him in a wide variety of roles in the 30-plus years I’ve been a Chicago theatergoer and critic. We met at a coffee shop on Irving Park Road near his rehearsal location. It was fun to get reacquainted with Larry and talk about this new role and his career.
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Manon Lescaut By Puccini
Produced by San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 11th, 2019Manon Lescaut holds some curious distinctions within the Puccini canon. Chronologically, the third of his nine full-length operas, the first two were failures. This was his only opera lauded at its conception by critics and audiences alike.
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Druid Shakespear's Richard III at Lincoln Center
White Lights Festival's Garry Hynes Brilliant Production
By: - Nov 10th, 2019The Lincoln Center White Lights Festival is presenting DruidShakespeare: Richard III, directed by the inimitable Garry Hynes. This play is odd for Shakespeare, who later would carefully etch the development of each character. Here we immediately meet Richard. Hynes has Aaron Monaghan rise from the grave into which all, or rather most of the people he murders or sets up for death, get dumped over the course of the evening.
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Giuliano Opening at Real Eyes Gallery
By: - Nov 10th, 2019Many artists and friends attended the opening of my exhbition "Then and Now: Analog to Digital" at Real Eyes Gallery in Adams, Mass. For the occasion I wore my Senegal robes. That reflected the exotic nature of the work. Music was performed on electric sitar and percussion by Nana Simopoulos and Caryn Heilman. There were lively dialogues about the work anticipating an artist's talk on Saturday, November 23 at 4 PM.
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Drawing and Painting By Martin G. Mugar
Lesson Plans for Faculty and Students
By: - Oct 22nd, 2019The artist Martin Mugar has posted a number of provocactive think pieces to this site. His self published book Drawing and Painting provides lesson plans for progressive faculty and students. It distills what he learned earning an MFA degree at Yale followed by decades of teaching. Like all of his writing the book is challengings and insightful.
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Off Off Braodway's Lively Fall Season
Duck by Tom Block and Quiet Enjoyment by Richard Curtis
By: - Oct 22nd, 2019Inside common experiences, one financial and the other political, are revealed in a broad slapstick comedy, Quiet Enjoyment and Duck, darkly humorous explorations of Snowden's dilemma and ours.
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The Jack Quartet at a Crypt Session
John Luther Adams Communes
By: - Oct 21st, 2019In The Crypt, composer and performing artists collaborate. Selections of a talented impresario invite artists and audience to enter special moments together. Sounds reverberate from stone as candles cast warm light. Moments nourish the soul to spread and re-capture the precious environment for which composer John Luther Adams has always fought. Adams now focuses on the power of music to transform. In the bows and string of the Jack Quartet, it does.
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James Aponovich at Clark Gallery
Parables, Portraits and Recent Still Lifes
By: - Oct 21st, 2019James Aponovich is on the short list of leading American realist painters. He is having a stunning exhibition of new work at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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The Clark Art Institute Preview
Summer 2020 Schedule Includes Outdoor Exhibition
By: - Oct 21st, 2019“The Clark’s upcoming summer season is an ambitious program highlighting new discoveries and new initiatives,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “We are truly energized by the opportunity to activate our entire campus by sharing exhibitions that will introduce our visitors—and the world—to artists whose work is vibrant, dynamic, and inspiring. This summer’s programs span more than one hundred years of artistic practice and explore a rich array of themes through both historic and contemporary lenses.”
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Zorn, Hannigan, Jack Quartet, and Sae Hashimoto
Veterans Room at the Park Avenue Armory
By: - Oct 16th, 2019Super diva Barbara Hannigan and the Jack Quartet with Sae Hashimoto on vibraphone performed the music of John Zorn in the Veterans Room of the Park Avenue Armory. Hannigan had selected this room because she wanted the audience to have an intimate experience. We heard her daring and beautiful take on Zorn’s Jumalattaret, which was even more bold and beautiful than its US premiere in Ojai last June.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams in South Florida
By: - Oct 14th, 2019Palm Beach Dramaworks presents a shattering 'Streetcar.' Actors, design team shine in South Florida nonprofit, professional theater company's vivid mounting of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece.
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Marriage of Figaro
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 13th, 2019San Francisco Opera’s new production of Marriage of Figaro retains the time frame of the original (late 18th century) but moves the action from Spain to post-Revolutionary America. The shift in venue carries no significance for this opera.
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Harold Pinter's Betrayal
Revival on Broadway
By: - Oct 11th, 2019“I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did.”– Harold Pinter, taken from his 2005 Nobel Prize Lecture
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Tanglewood Learning Institute
Programming October 2019 Through June 2020.
By: - Oct 09th, 2019The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces Tanglewood’s first-ever fall/winter/spring schedule of performances and activities to take place on the grounds of the famed music festival, October 2019 through June 2020.
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Wiesenthal Performed Near Miami
GableStage Mounts Play About Renowned Nazi Hunter
By: - Oct 08th, 2019Actor shines as Wiesenthal in GableStage production of one-character play. Tom Dugan's piece is laser focused, touching and funny. The play centers on the end of the humanitarian's "career" bringing former Nazis to justice.
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Mark Twain’s River of Song
At TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Oct 08th, 2019LeKae, a black woman, plays the white boy Huck, and the viewer happily suspends disbelief, as she thoroughly convinces playing the role of the youth as he breaks away from the constraints of convention. They reproduce the escape from the fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, rafting down the Mississippi, wide-eyed and reveling in the beauty of the world and of freedom.
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Dogged Doggerel
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American Underground By Brent Askari
Social Justice Drama at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 07th, 2019As the final production of the 25th season, artistic director, Julianne Boyd, is directing the world premiere of a timely social justice play American Underground by Brent Askari. It postulates a future when all American Muslims are treated as enemies of the state.
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The Height of the Storm on Broadway
Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce Are Masterful
By: - Oct 06th, 2019Seeing Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce on stage together in The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller is watching master craftsmen work. I wouldn’t care what the play was about; I want to marvel at their skills.
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Why by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Theater for a New Audience Gives A Crucial Answer
By: - Oct 04th, 2019Peter Brook andMarie-Hélène Estienne’s Why is playing at the Theater for A New Audience. The co-director-writer Brook’s work spans a century. Yet, as he starts this work, we are surprised and delighted by the answer to the question of the play’s title. The question is tucked away in a little box, on a little scrap of paper, like a note launched in a bottle on an ocean. It has landed at last in Brooklyn.
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