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Christopher Janney's Exploring the Hidden Music
At Boston University Dance Theater
By: - Jun 04th, 2018There is an upcoming concert by Christopher Janney, who will present with fellow dancer and musicians works that will again push boundaries. The event will occur on June 8 at the Boston University Dance Theater.
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Real Eyes on Adams
Former Furniture Store Now a Gallery
By: - Jun 03rd, 2018Until a few years ago the vast Simmons Furniture Store anchored the Park Street business area of downtown Adams. The town has improved curbside cosmetics. Now that business has been revitalized as Real Eyes Gallery with two large spaces. One featuers an arts and crafts store while the other displays works by former Met Opera scene painter, Bill Riley. He and his wife Francine Anne Riley are now gallerists as well as continuing as arts activists and community catalysts.
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Mark Brownell’s Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman
Feminine Mystique at Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Jun 03rd, 2018Trap Door Theatre’s production of Mark Brownell’s Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman, directed by Nicole Wiesner, is a striking example of the company’s highly stylized, choreographed, madcap productions. Eleven performers are in constant motion.
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Morning After Grace by Carey Crim
Senior Moments at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018Seniors are now living longer, healthier and better lives. Add to that little blue pills and it's not just kids who are hooking up. Morning After Grace by Carey Crim explores what happens when the old lady you wake up is just that.
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Freaky Friday the Musical
Book by Bridget Carpenter, Music by Tom Kitt, Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018Based on Mary Rogers’ 1972 novel of the same name, Freaky Friday’s popularity is validated by the three film versions that have appeared, with each variant tweeking the storyline. This is the first stage musical effort, and award winning playwright Bridget Carpenter’s adaptation is well suited to the theater with integrated subplots and laugh lines throughout. Tom Kitt’s music is tuneful and bouncy in keeping with the musical theater pop idiom, while Brian Yorkey’s lyrics consistently drive the plot and are full of insight and humor.
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Oscar Winner Sebastain Lelio Directs Disobedience
Jewish Life in England
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018“Disobedience” is a mesmerizing, interior, fascinating, and affecting screenplay that carefully structures the movie to squeeze maximum emotional impact from its two stars, which it does in spades. It’s a bold and daring film even by today’s standards.
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Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wuorinen
New York City Opera Finally Presents Its Commission
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Brokeback Mountain finally arrives at New York City Opera. The company originally commissioned the piece over a decade ago. It is a powerul and moving work.
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Joe Thompson Takes a Plunge
MASS MoCA Director and Taryn Simon’s A Cold Hole
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Fully clothed in an elegant summer suit, MASS MoCA director, Joe Thompson, during the opening of “A Cold Hole" by the artist Taryn Simon, jumped into her icy installation. That was truly shocking but what happened next is even more of a hoot.
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Hudson River Museum
Show by former CAVS Fellow Ellen Kozak
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Former MIT/CAVS Fellow, Ellen Kozak, and composer Scott D. Miller are presenting a 4-Channel Video Installation at the Hudson River Museum until September 9. The summer exhibition also includes monumental abstract drawings by Christine Hiebert as well as museum owned etchings that are titled: Donald Judd: Variations on a Theme.
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Fed and State Support for Berkshire Arts
Making $1 Worth $10
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Arts leaders and the media met at Shakespeare & Company to hear good news about state and federal funding. With manufacturing long gone from the region cultural tourism is the major industry. The arts season attracts more than 400,000 visitors and generates 4,000 plus jobs. Congressman Richard Neal announced $348,000 in NEA funding for the Berkshires. The federal funding cycle provides $900,700 to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and $1,092,400 to the New England Foundation for the Arts to benefit cultural groups across the state. He reported that the NEA this year got an increase of $3 million for a total of $152,849,000.
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Love Never Dies Actually Should Have
Messy Sequel to Phantom of the Opera at Hartford's Bushnell
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Love Never Dies, the sequel written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Glenn Slater (lyrics) and Ben Elton (book) is based on the novel The Phantom in Manhattan. Of these, only Webber was involved in the original Phantom. It runs at the Bushnell, in Hartford, Conn. through Sunday, June 3
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Exquisita Agonía at Repertorio Español
De Nilo Cruz Weaves Magic
By: - May 30th, 2018Exquisita Agonía at Repertorio Espanol is a tour de force take on modern science mixed with the age old questions about who we are and what we leave behind when we die. Director Jose Zayas has provided a perfect rhythm to the two-act piece by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
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New Holocaust Play by Moisés Kaufman
The Album at Miami New Drama's Colony Theatre
By: - May 30th, 2018The Album focuses on little-known collection of photographs of Nazis partying near Aushwitz.A play by Moisés Kaufman, of Tectonic Theater Project fame, is in development. South Florida audiences are seeing snippets of this new play, running for four performances.
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Schön and Schön: From Generation to Generation
Mother and Daughter Collaborate on Ceramic Sculpture
By: - May 30th, 2018For the first time mother and daughter collaborated to create a large, abstract, ceramic vessel emblazoned with evocative faces. With other works by both artists it resulted in a special exhibition Schön and Schön: From Generation to Generation. It remains on view, through June 28, at the North Hill community complex in Needham, Mass. Nancy Schön, now 89, is renowned for her "Make Way for the Ducklings" bronze sculptures in the Boston Public Gardens. Ellen Schön is the Ceramics Studio Supervisor and an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University College of Art and Design.
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Finger Lakes New Vines Vineyard
Unique Winegrowing Region
By: - May 30th, 2018The Finger Lakes are New York states largest wine growing region, with over 150 vineyards crisscrossing the eleven Finger Lakes. One vineyard is home to New Vines B&B and is located within two miles of seven other vineyards. With a resident winemaker on premises and the use of local and homegrown crops for breakfast, it was easy to digest what the Finger Lakes region was about.
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Hugh Ferriss Delineator of Heroic Modern
Great Architectural Visionary of the '20s and '30s
By: - May 29th, 2018Hugh Ferris was a visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects through his heroic skyscraper renderings and delineation of construction projects. His influence can still be seen in popular culture..
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David Henry Hwang Musical Soft Power
World Premiere at The Ahmanson Theatre in LA
By: - May 29th, 2018Playwright David Henry Hwang’s newest musical play “Soft Power”, now enjoying its world premiere on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, is an excellent example of readdressing the domination of White culture of the West to the rising prominence and influence of Asian societies along the ‘silk roads’ of the East. Hwang is a prolific American-born playwright of Chinese ethnicity.
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Still Waiting for Godot
Irish Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
By: - May 29th, 2018Druid Theatre of Galway, Ireland, has brought its radiant production of Samuel Beckett’s Godot to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for an abbreviated run. Directed by Garry Hynes, Druid’s artistic director, the play stars four renowned Irish actors. The stars are Didi and Gogo (Vladimir played by Marty Rea with Aaron Monaghan as Estragon), the two souls waiting at a country crossroads for someone named Godot.
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Shrek The Musical Near Miami
Stage Adaptation of Popular Animated Film
By: - May 29th, 2018Minimalism proves magical in Area Stage Company's production of Shrek The Musical. It's easy to buy into the world onstage despite visible and simple theatrical magic. Director's approach frames the show as a troupe of players at a modern Renaissance faire.
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Avenue Q in Southern Florida
Potty Mouthed Puppet Show at MNM Theatre Company
By: - May 28th, 2018A production of the raunchy Avenue Q at West Palm Beach-based MNM Theatre Company proves a winner. Puppet work and acting shine in show that parodies Sesame Street, children's programming. The seemingly lighthearted Avenue Q is intended for mature audiences.
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Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain
Launches Barrington Season in Theatre Named for Him
By: - May 28th, 2018Wih medieval ignorance and devastating consequeneces science deniers dominate key cabinet positions in the reactionary Trump administration. Fundamentalism and misinformationm result in parents refusing to vaccinate children. These issues and concerns create uncanny relevance for the revival of Mark St. Germain's 1991 play Typhoid Mary. It launches the season for Barrington Stage Company on the stage that bears his name.
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Bychkov Conducts the NY Philharmonic
Broad Swathes of Sound
By: - May 27th, 2018A special evening at the New York Philharmonic, in which Semyon Bychkov conducted widely diverse swathes of sound from compoers Luciano Berio and Richard Strauss.
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Light Shinging in Buckinghamshire at NY Theater Workshop
Ideas Would Inform Our Founding Fathers
By: - May 25th, 2018The presentation of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill at the New York Theater Workshop takes the bold step of exploring the true roots of American democratic values as they emerged in the tumultuous years bracketing the English Civil War 1642-1651.
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MIT/CAVS @ MIT Museum
Celebrating 50 Years of CAVS
By: - May 25th, 2018The MIT Museum's current exhibitions include: 'Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies,' until January 31st, 2019 and 'Gyorgy Kepes Photographs II, MIT Years 1946-1985,' until July 15, 2018. This article also highlights the Museum's party in late April, where more than 150 people celebrated with the CAVS community. As always, photographs of artwork and people make words visible and more memorable.
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Boston Publisher Stephen Mindich at 74
Presided Over Once Formidable Phoenix Media Empire
By: - May 25th, 2018While he lacked stature, Stephen Mindich, who died this week at 74, cast a giant shadow. As a hip capitalist at the height of his power he was an ersatz Citizen Kane of Boston's counter culture industry of print and broadcasting media. In 2013, his Phoenix empire exhinguished never again to take flight from the embers of fame and fortune.
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