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Charles Giuliano and Astrid Hiemer at Bascom Lodge
Reading and Book Launch on Mt. Greylock Sept. 2
By: - Aug 25th, 2018Charles Giuliano and Astrid Hiemer will present a reading and book launch at Bascom Lodge atop Mt. Greylock on Sunday, September 2. The reception and reading, free and open to the public, will be held from 5 to 7 PM. Following the reading will be a prix fixe dinner for which reservations are required. Hiemer will read from her artist's books and projects. Giuliano is launching his fifth book of gonzo verse "Topsy Turvy."
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Shorts at 59E59 Theaters
Victims Triumph Often
By: - Aug 24th, 2018We look at victims in each of three short plays offered this summer at 59 E59 Theaters, Throughline Artists producing. They are all brave in their own way, a bravery that is unexpected. Unusual situations in each play intrigue.
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Heisenberg By Simon Stephens
Uncertain Production at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 24th, 2018We much enjoyed the London production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens. It won an Olivier in London and Tony for Best Play on Broadway. We approached his two hander Heisenberg, at Shakespeare & Company, with great expectations. As directed by Tina Packer it didn't pan out.
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Color Spaces by Berkshire Artist Jane Hudson
At The Left Bank, North Bennington, VT
By: - Aug 24th, 2018Over the past two years, Jane Hudson has been exploring the relationship of color and form, reflecting on the work of early Modernists, e.g, Kandinsky, Miro and Sonia Delaunay. The medium is gouache wherewith one may explore the washes of watercolor as well as the opacity of denser media (acrylic, oil). This versatility allows for the layering of color within active geometric forms.
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The Knights Perform Candide
Bernstein's Zany Comedic Operetta
By: - Aug 23rd, 2018Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide' came to light at Ozawa Hall. The packed house and crowded lawn were recipients of a night of comedic opera, performed by The Knights with special guests. Skits jammed in-between tenor and soprano leads. The mockery led the way to this dumbfounded comedy, which reminds one of the Marx Brothers.
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Well Intentioned White People
Barrington Stage Produces Emerging Playwright Rachel Lynett
By: - Aug 23rd, 2018As manifestation of a commitment to social justice theatre Barrington Stage is the first to produce a play by Rachel Lynett. Her Well Intentioned White People focuses on young, gifted and black, tenure track professor, Cass Davis. She teaches Carribean culture and the diaspora at a small, white, liberal college in a Red state. The play relates responses to racist attacks by an unknown assailant.
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Charming Comedy in a Perfect Setting
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018In the magical setting of the Roman Garden Theatre, Shakespeare & Company smartly sets this play in the Roaring Twenties, a time of possibilities. With excellent direction by Allyn Burrows, and superb performances, this production is proof of its most famous line: "All the World's a Stage, and All the Men and Women Merely Players." It brings alive its characters, and makes the audience feel they are in the Forest of Arden, witnessing hilarious role-playing that results in love conquering all.
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A Chorus Line
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018A Chorus Line now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, Sept. 2 is a “singular sensation” as one of its most well-known songs says. The show has everything and this production has almost everything right.
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Dell'Arte Opera's Vignettes from Vienna
Introducing Emerging Talent in Mozart and Salieri
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018Dell'Arte Opera presented Vignettes from Vienna, including Mozart and Verdi. The highlight of the evening, however, was not Mozart’s music as a stand alone. We were treated to a performance of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri, into which the composer interwove Mozart’s music as part of the story.
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Cross-Section at Eclipse Mill Gallery
North Adams Fiber Artists
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018Cross-Section, the inaugural exhibition of North Adams Fiber Artists (NAFA), will open at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on September 7 and run through October 8. The gallery is located in a 40 unit artist/ loft building ar 243 Union Street in North Adams.
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A Twofer at Berkshire Theatre Group
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare
By: - Aug 21st, 2018An evening with Christopher Durang is never boring. These two one-act plays are hilarious and different. The first, The Actor's Nightmare, reminds us all of what it feels like to be lost - uncomfortable - amid many laughs and great performances. The second, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For Us, is a scathing, hilarious and extreme indictment of the force of any fundamentalist, controlling dogma. In this case, the Catholic Church and Sister Mary are its targets. All the performances are stellar.
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Detroit's Underground Railroad
Exploring City's Unique History
By: - Aug 21st, 2018Code named “Midnight” by Underground Railroad “conductors,” Detroit provided access to Windsor, Ontario, Canada just across the narrow Detroit River.
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White Guy On The Bus
Southeastern Premiere of Bruce Graham Play
By: - Aug 21st, 2018White Guy On the Bus is an unflinchingly honest look at racism, perception, political correctness and other topics. A riveting southeastern premiere is playing at GableStage near Miami. The entire cast and crew create a tense filled evening of theater that you should not miss.
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The Tsar's Bride at Bard Summerscape
The Pleasures of Rimsky-Korsakov
By: - Aug 20th, 2018Bard Summerscape concluded its 2018 season with a production of The Tsar’s Bride by Rimsky Korsakov. Often performed in Europe, it is unfamiliar to most opera lovers in the United States, who received it with rapt admiration at the FIsher Center.
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Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally
A Fabulous Production at Shakespeare & Company.
By: - Aug 20th, 2018Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally, at Shakespeare & Company, is on the short list of finest productions of the Berkshire summer season. The well crafted play has been tightly directed by James Warwick. A superb cast is inspired by the pivotal, commanding performance by a living legend, Annette Miller. It's a hold onto your seat dense and devastating one act play.
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Doctor Atomic by John Adams
Santa Fe Opera House
By: - Aug 20th, 2018The Santa Fe Opera House is the perfect venue to stage John Adams’s compelling contemporary opera Doctor Atomic, about the creation of the atomic bomb. With a riveting and intellectual, but sometimes obtuse, libretto by Peter Sellars that is largely taken from historic documents, a story whose outcome we know is still tense and absorbing
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Highwood's Ghost Haunts Leonard Bernstein
John Williams World Premiere Composition
By: - Aug 20th, 2018The packed audience at Tanglewood on a most beautiful day waited anxiously to hear the world premiere of a new composition from John Williams, in honor of Leonard Bernstein's ongoing 100th Year Celebration. The anticipated piece, 'Highwood's Ghost' featured Yo Yo Ma.
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Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The opera is a play within a play. The “richest man in Vienna” has commissioned an evening’s spectacle at his manor for guests – a serious opera followed by a commedia dell’arte. It has been staged by Santa Fe Opera.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free
Boston Ballet and BSO Collaborate
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The summer long centenary celebration continued last night at Tanglewood with an All Bernstein Program conducted by Andris Nelsons. It featured Fancy Free a 1944 collaboration with choreographe Jerome Robbins for Fancy Free. That theme was expanded into their musical On the Town. The dance was performed in collaboration with Boston Ballet.
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The Brothers Khan by George Pfirrmann
Brotherhood at the Extremes
By: - Aug 18th, 2018In this era which has generated a nigh unprecedented displacement and resettlement of refugees, George Pfirrmann delves into the human conundrum of self definition buried in the frightening headlines of violence and despair.
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Candide by Voltaire with Bernstein’s Music
Sante Fe Opera Celebrates Composer’s Centennial
By: - Aug 18th, 2018From its inauspicious Broadway debut in 1956, Candide has led a checkered existence with revisions continuing through 1988. But, despite whatever flaws, it possesses wonderful music, is highly literate and stingingly political. Its real narrative weakness is that there is too much of it. The theme gets driven home too many times with repetitious vignettes that add little. That said, Santa Fe Opera commemorates the Leonard Bernstein centennial with a superior and visually spectacular production of this important work.
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Houston Ballet
Once in a Blue Moon Visit to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Aug 17th, 2018It's been 40 years since the renowned and well traveled Houston Ballet has visited Jacob's Pillow. The company if noted for its depth in superbly trained principal dancers. There are many individual stars in its firmament. On a hot and steamy night they presented four works, three by artistic director, Stanton Welch AM, one a world premiere, and another by perennial Pillow favorite Trey McIntyre.
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The Fresh Grass 2018 Festival
Three Days Of Bluegrass Music
By: - Aug 17th, 2018MASS MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, prepares for its annual bluegrass festival, Fresh Grass. This years, three day event takes place from the 14th to 16th of September, on the grounds where art, music, dance and film thrive. .
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900
Revisionist Exhibition at Clark Art Institute
By: - Aug 16th, 2018Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900, is an ambitious, scholarly but problematic exhibition at the Clark Art Institute. It has been drawing large crowds and ends on 3 September.
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West Side Story at Barrington Stage Company
Smash Hit Celebrates Bernstein's Centennial
By: - Aug 15th, 2018Barrington Stage Company produced West Wide Story eleven years ago and now celebrating the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein. In 2013 Barrington sents its production of Bernstein's On the Town to Broadway. With three productions in such a short span it's clear that artistic director, Julianne Boyd, views Bernstein as a bankable winner. Yet again, audiences agree with a sold out run in Pittsfield.
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