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Valpolicella the Whole Story
The History Of Unique and Affordable Wines
By: - Jul 30th, 2018Valpolicella has always been a favorite wine of mine, probably due to my father. At a very young age, under ten years old, he introduced me to Valpolicella and Cream Sherry. Over fifty years later, my love for both wine varieties still lingers.
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The Big Bang In Suburban Miami
Musical-Comedy Send-up at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Jul 30th, 2018The Big Bang is presented as a backer's audition for a musical behemoth that's destined to be a sure-fire flop. This musical-within-a-musical returns by popular demand for the third time at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Two actors, accompanied by a talented musician on the keyboard, deftly play multiple roles in a whirlwind theatrical experience. The Big Bang is one of Actors' Playhouse' most loved shows in its 30-year history,
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El Coronel No at Repertorio Español
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Adaptation Delightful
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Repertorio Español, the superb repertory company in Manhattan, is presenting El Coronel No based on a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez adapted by Jorge Ali Triana and Veronica Triana. It is a Spanish version of Waiting for Godot. It is also a delicious take on insanity – for forty years, the Colonel has expected a letter each Friday acknowledging his pension. For forty years it has not come.
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Seared by Theresa Rebeck
Hilarious Foodie Spoof at Williamtown Theater Festival
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Seared by Therese Rebeck is her third play to permiere at Williamston Theater Festival. Set in a 16 seat boutidue Brooklyn restaurant Seared is a hillarious sendup of trendy foodie fanatacism.
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West Side Story at Tanglewood
Summer Long Bernstein Celebration
By: - Jul 29th, 2018With an up-to-date LED screen and a full house, 'West Side Story' , the movie version, was in synch with conductor David Newman and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood. The score and movie hold their original lure with flawless tour de force.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim at San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2018James Lapine’s book of Sunday in the Park with George focuses on change, not just change in art, but in life. Stephen Sondheim is noted as perhaps the most intellectual among composers of musicals
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Oliver at Goodspeed
The Dickens of a Musical
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Director Rob Ruggiero has done the same thing with this production of Oliver! now at Goodspeed Musicals through Sept. 13. Perhaps you have forgotten or never knew the basic plot of the show. Oliver Twist is a young orphan who escapes from a workhouse where food was scarce and love non-existent, into an underworld of pickpockets and worse.
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Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki at Eclipse Gallery
Cuckoo's Call on View In North Adams
By: - Jul 28th, 2018Cuckoo's Call, is an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki that reflects on the sea of humanity, ever restlessly heaving up and down. It opens at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams on August 3 and runs through September 3.
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Roland K. Brown/EVIDENCE
With Music of Arturo O'Farrill at Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 28th, 2018New Conversations (live music world premiere) choreography, Roland K. Brown with music by Arturo O’Farrill & Resist was developed during a residency of the Roland K. Brown/Evidence company at Jacob's Pillow. It was founded in 1985 and this was their first Pillow peformance in more than a decade.
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Naumkeag Garden Party
A National Historic Landmak Celebrates
By: - Jul 27th, 2018The historic home of the Choate family, Naumkeag, located in the beautiful Berkshires of Massachusetts hosts their annual Garden Party, this Saturday. With beautiful grounds, a historic 34 room house and tours daily, this gem in Stockbridge is the place to be on July 28th.
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Lempicka an Art Deco Musical at Williamstown
World Premiere by Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould
By: - Jul 26th, 2018Fleeing the Russian Revolution Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Gorska, 16 May 1898-18 March 1980) settled in Paris. Initially the couple with an infant girl survived selling the last of family jewlery. Her husband, Tadeusz Lempicki, a lawyer and aristocrat at first refused to get a job. She took up painting society portraits as a means of supporting their daughter. During the 1920s she was a leading exponent of the Art Deco style. It fell out of fashion during the depression and war years. Williamstown Theatre Festival has a world premiere musical about her life and career.
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Was Strindberg a Proto Feminist
Creditors at Shakespeare & Company Provokes Questions
By: - Jul 25th, 2018As magnificently performed by Kristin Wold, her Tesla, in Strindberg's Creditors is a strong, complex, progressive woman. For the first time Shakespeare & Company in Lenox is producing the modernist Swedish playwright. In his own words, however, he stated that "... a woman is a scaled down man, a form whose development was arrested between adolescence and full manhood. ...Woman is inferior to man.”
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Lawrence Brownlee Rocks The Crypt
Myra Huang and Damien Sneed Collaborate
By: - Jul 25th, 2018Lawrence Brownlee names his performance in July "Up Close and Personal". Brownlee is a singer who feels up close and personal on the stage of the great opera houses of the world, because his voice is warm and inviting. As we listen to a program which begins the iconic ‘single tear’ from L’Elisir d’Amour of Gaetano Donizetti, we too have "our hot pulses beating", like Adina, whose tear is addressed. Andrew Ousley of Unison again produces a gem.
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Pericles Is Rarely Performed
At Marin Shakespeare Company
By: - Jul 24th, 2018The storyline of Pericles is the odyssey of the title character. It shares devices with other Shakespeare comedies, such as Twelfth Night’s shipwreck separation of characters then thought dead. But in the clever opening challenge, opera lovers will find what may have been the inspiration that ultimately led to Puccini’s Turandot.
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White by James Ijames
By Berkeley's Shotgun Players
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Based on a real life incident, the informal push for diversity or inclusion in the arts motivates James Ijames’s (pronounced I’ms) complex, provocative, and entertaining play White.
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Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor
A New Opera Initiative
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Nicholas McGegan and his San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor. The pastoral opera was written to commemorate the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King George II to a German princess. This is Handel the craftsman at his best, with enchanting melodies, cascades of inventive orchestration and vocal fireworks.
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Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
Comic Drama near Miami
By: - Jul 23rd, 2018Five Women Wearing the Same Dress speaks to today's male-dominated society, while also producing laughs.The Alan Ball comic drama runs through Aug. 12 at Miami Lakes' Main Street Players venue. Despite some flaws, the company turns in a solid production of a play that unites a group of women.
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Creditors by August Strindberg
Mid-summer Dark Comedy at S&Co.
By: - Jul 23rd, 2018The Swedish realist/ naturalist playwright, August Strindberg (1849-1912) published Creditors in 1889. Some 129 years later it is the first play by the Swedish modernist to be produced by Shakespere & Company. Since it is a must see play of the Berkshire season you wonder what took them so long?
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Ninagawa's Macbeth at Mostly Mozart
Lincoln Center Farewell to Japanese Classic
By: - Jul 22nd, 2018Ninagawa’s Macbeth packs a wallop at the Koch Theater. Presented as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, Shakespeare in Japanese sits well in the highly dramatic Gabriel Fauré Requiem, and other music of the classical West.
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Enrichment At Hancock Shaker Village
Food For Thought
By: - Jul 22nd, 2018A great day trip that enlightens and enriches the soul is as close as Berkshire county, home of Hancock Shaker Village. Spending a day learning about the Shakers, sharing dinner and thought with Peter Jennings son, Chris Jennings, and attending a concert with members of WILCO and transplanted local troubadour, Johnny Irion, can turn any day into sunshine.
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Annual ATCA Conference in Wisconsin
Critics gather at American Players Theatre
By: - Jul 21st, 2018American Players Theatre is nestled amid the beauty of southwest Wisconsin's countryside. The American Theatre Critics Association gathers in hills of rural Wisconsin for theatergoing and discussion. This year's APT line-up features strong acting, design work. American Players Theatre focuses on the classics.
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Ivo van Hove's The Damned
Hatred as Source of All Evil at Park Avenue Armory
By: - Jul 21st, 2018The Damned by Ivo van Hove, based on the screenplay of Luchino Visconti, tears through the Park Avenue Armory. The stage is in four parts, if you don’t include a scene which goes out onto the Park Avenue where a shocked dog walker sees the mad Sophie von Essenbeck running wildly in search of her son.
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Dorrance Dance at Jacob's Pillow
An All Star World Premiere
By: - Jul 21st, 2018For the past few years the annual appearance of Dorrance Dance has been a highlight of the Jacob’s Pillow season. This time the tap company featured an all star, world premiere of the playful All Good Things Come to an End . The second half of the program featured a recent piece Myelination (2017). It was yet again a glorious evening of tap dancing.
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Valpolicella Is A Summer Wine
Soft Fruity Best Chilled For 20 Minutes
By: - Jul 20th, 2018Valpolicella, a wine from the Verona area, in the Veneto appellation, exhibits summer drinking potential when chilled for twenty minutes. Like Peosecco and Rose wine, Valpolicella, a red wine, has a soft and fruity profile, one that loves the summer desire, as well as year round.
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American Players Theatre 2018
Productions in Spring Green, Wisconsin
By: - Jul 20th, 2018Performances of American Players Theatre (APT). More coverage of the ATCA conference in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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