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Andrea Fulton's A Punk or A Gentleman
Big Subjects Treated with Humor and Feeling
By: - May 08th, 2018Theatre for the New City and the Fulton Foundation are presenting Andrea Fulton’s “A Punk or a Gentleman”. Andrea Fulton has an uncanny knack for giving us an incisive vision of difficult social issues. We are asked to reconfigure our preconceptions. Her topic, domestic violence, is not what you might expect. The victim is a man and he, like 25% of American men, is experiencing physical abuse at the hands of his wives and girlfriends.
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Arnie Reisman on Boston's Counter Culture
Golden Age of Arts and Media from 1969 to 1981
By: - May 08th, 2018The critical success of "Astral Weeks" by Ryan Walsh has brought national media attention to Boston's counter culture in 1968. Following a prior interview with former Cambridge Phoenix editor, Harper Barnes, we pick up on the other side of the Charles River with former Boston After Dark Editor, Arnie Reisman. This continues our coverage of arts and media during a golden age from 1969 to the demise of The Real Paper in 1981.
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Two Minds by Lynne Kaufman
At The Marsh in San Francisco
By: - May 08th, 2018The Marsh San Francisco is noted as the Bay Area’s premiere home for solo theatrical performance. With Two Minds it doubles the cast size and the richness of the drama.
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Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Symphony
Listening to the BSO Music Director's Mentor
By: - May 07th, 2018Mariss Jansons conducted Mahler's Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Andris Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony and a protégé of Jansons, introduced himself to the BSO with this symphony.
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Assembled Identities at HERE
Cloning as a Way to Explore Individuality
By: - May 07th, 2018Assembled Identities is a new work being presented by HERE, as the important Art Center celebrates its 25th anniversary. In many ways, the play reflects the company’s core commitment to hybrid art.
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Finally Forgetting Irma
New Theater Company Making Long-Awaited Debut
By: - May 07th, 2018Eight months after Hurricane Irma, Measure for Measure Theatre Company to finally mount an inaugural production. The Pulitzer-winning musical Next to Normal will mark new South Florida company's first staging.
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Orphic Moments by Master Voices
Anthony Roth Costanzo and Matthew Aucoin Featured
By: - May 07th, 2018Anthony Roth Costanzo is a counter tenor opera aficionados come out to hear. His voice is unusually rich for this range. He is a physical actor of great skill. The Master Voices presentation of Orphic Moments implanted a dramatic cantata Matthew Aucoin wrote for Costanzo into the opera by Gluck.
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Zoe Lewis’ Cabaret in Provincetown
Bootleggers Rock Monday at The Mews
By: - May 07th, 2018To our surprise, a Monday night at Provincetown's The Mews, in early May, the joint was jumping. It was packed to the gills for a fabulous night of cabaret with pianist/ singer/ raconteur Zoe Lewis and the Bootleggers. It was the absolute highllight of a pre season week on the Cape.
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Buddy Holly on Stage in Chicago
February 3 the Day the Music Died
By: - May 06th, 2018Playwright Janes is an English writer and producer who works in TV, film, radio and stage. Buddy—The Buddy Holly his best-known work and ran for 14 years in London’s West End and toured in the U.K. for 17 years. Buddy has also been on Broadway, toured the U.S., Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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2018 AM-DOCS Film Festival
Annual Program in Palm Springs
By: - May 06th, 2018Seven years ago, AM-DOCS Film Festival founder Teddy Grouya, felt that filmmakers of documentaries needed a proper festival of their own to display their diverse and wide-ranging, special subject-matter films. Accordinglt, the documentary film genre has been presented a festival format with all the trimmings.
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Anna Christie at Lyric Stage
Revival of O’Neill’s 1921 Pulitzer Winner
By: - May 06th, 2018With judicious tweaking, cuts, and color blind casting director/ adapter, Scott Edmiston, mounted a stunning producton of Anna Christie at Boston's Lyric Stage. The 1921 drama by Eugene O'Neill won a Pulitzer Prize. He would go on to earn three more Pulitzers including for a posthumous production of the autobiographical family epic A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Honeck Conducts New York Philharmonic
By: - May 06th, 2018Manfred Honeck, who was narrowly beaten out by Jaap van Zweden for the job of music director of the New York Philharmonic returned to the podium of America's oldest orchestra this week. He brought an ambitious program, featuring two of his own arrangements of orchestral music by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky, each drawn from fairy tale works by those great Romantic composers, and the evergreen Sibelius Violin Concerto as an ample and satisfying makeweight.
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Rick Harlow's The Landscape of Energy
Statent by a Berkshire Artist
By: - May 05th, 2018Through the end of May The Eclipse Mill Gallery launches its 2018 season with the first Berkshire solo show of abstract paintings by resident artist, Rick Harlow. In an artist's statement Harlow provides a context for what he describes as The Landscape of Energy. On May 26 in the gallery at 243 Union Street, North Adams, the group Aluna will create improvised music inspired by the paintings.
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Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Carnegie Hall Celebrates Maestro's Birthday
By: - May 05th, 2018Mariss Jansons started his program with the presumed warhorse, The Wiliam Tell Overture. He brings freshness to the work. In his customary attention to detail, which is then swept up into the greater whole, we hear a symphony, which begins with a beautiful cello solo and expands finally to a rip-snorting conclusion. All sections of the orchestra have a chance to shine in ensemble or solo performance.
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The Cake at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Chicago's Equity Theater Produces Works by Women
By: - May 05th, 2018Bekah Brunstetter’s play shines in giving us insights on the thinking behind a baker’s refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Brunstetter helps us understand the thinking on both sides; this is not a leftwing harangue.
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Karl Marx in Soho with Bob Weick
Howard Zinn's Engaging and Apt Drama
By: - May 04th, 2018Howard Zinn’s celebrated play comes “home” to the Soho Playhouse, starring Bob Weick as Karl Marx. The theorist of communism engages in a passionate, funny and moving commentary about contemporary American politics and society. Come celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Umbria's Sagrantino Wines
Prepare for Cool Nights And Hot Days
By: - May 04th, 2018In the 1960's, after nearly extinction, the Sagrantino varietal was revived and has come back and is known as one of Italy's finest grapes. Montefalco, in Umbria, is where this bold,concentrated grape thrives. Huge tannins take years to cool down. With daytime summer temperatures near 100F, cool nights are needed for this grape to survive. And it has.
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Gerald Finley and Julius Drake at Alice Tully Hall
Among Lincoln Center's Great Performers
By: - May 03rd, 2018Gerald Finley, in announcing his program at Alice Tully Hall, said that he and his collaborator on the piano, Julius Drake, had selected songs they loved. It is a measure of this consummate bass-baritone and superb piano partner that the songs were also among the most difficult in the literature. These masters of the form did not struggle as they displayed pyrotechnics on the keyboard and a wide-spreading musical and emotional range in the voice.
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Dudamel in New York
Old Stalin's Ghost
By: - May 01st, 2018The arrival of the sensational conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic is always a cause for celebration at Lincoln Center. Dudamel remains the leading musical export of Venezuela, the proof that that country's El Sistema program is an entirely successful social experiment in producing quality musicians under difficult circumstances.
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Antica Wines Of Napa Family Owned
The Antinoris of Tuscany Founded Antica Wines in 1986
By: - May 01st, 2018Antinori Winery from Tuscany is the oldest, active, wine producer in the world. In 1986, the company bought property in Napa Valley and founded the Antica Winery. After 30 years, the winery is well known for wines that maintain the same high quality as the wines from Antinori have done for their entire existence.
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Miner Winery A Napa Favorite
A Family Story
By: - May 01st, 2018The Miner Family Winery in Oakville, California, part of Napa Valley, is a true family winery in existence for the past twenty years. Dave Miner and his wife, Emily, founded the winery-possibly as an escape from the software life Dave Miner was living in the 1990s.. Two decades later, the winery has a cult following for its signature Oracle wine.
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Queen of Basel in Miami Beach
World Premiere of Miss Julie Adaptation
By: - Apr 30th, 2018Queen of Basel transports Miss Julie from late 19th century Sweden to present-day Miami Beach. The Hilary Bettis play is a feminist take on August Strindberg's 1888 naturalistic tragedy. Technical elements are top notch
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Carmen at Opera Philadelphia
New Production Sizzles at the Academy of Music
By: - Apr 30th, 2018Carmen has arrived in all her glory at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Heralded by digital billboard signs on the highways and byways around the city, and topping off the PECO Building in downtown Philadelphia, the news is being broadcast. The Academy has been packed. This new production by Opera Philadelphia and its partners in Seattle and Ireland, is smashing.
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London’s Fourth Plinth in Central London
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist Transformative Public Art.
By: - Apr 28th, 2018For the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, Artist Michael Rakowitz has recreated the Lamassu. This winged bull and protective deity guarded the entrance to Nergal Gate of Nineveh (near modern day Mosul) from 700 BC until it was barbarically destroyed by ISIS in 2015. This wonderful reconstruction is made from recycled packaging from 10,500 empty Iraqi date syrup cans. This represents a once-renowned Iraqi industry now decimated by war. The piece's inscription is written in Cuneiform. Rebuilding the Lamassu in Trafalgar Square means it can continue to guard the people who live, visit and work in London. It is a layered artwork full of myth and tragic reality.
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Welser-Möst Conducts Tristan and Isolde
Nina Stemme and Gerhard Siegel Shine in Title Roles
By: - Apr 27th, 2018Tristan und Isolde is not an ordinary opera. Wagner's work stripped almost all the action and plot away from the legend of the medieval knight and the Irish queen and their illicit affair. Aside from one sword-thrust, there is very little action. Everything is internal in this mysterious opera, with turbulent swirls of chromatic orchestration bringing the psychological inner life of the characters to vivid life. In other words, as the Cleveland Orchestra proved on Thursday night, this is a perfect opera for the concert hall.
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