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Bounce Opens in Lexington, Kentucky
Basketball Opera Comes to Basketball's Home
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Artists committed to the continuing attraction of opera as a form that draws an audience are experimenting. A workshop of Bounce, an opera conceived by Grete Holby and her Ardea Arts in conjunction with the University of Kentucky, is performed in a park in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. With dribbles as drumming and heros like Flight and Future, the future of opera itself is secured. Now this opera goes to the University of Kentucky, collaborators on its creation.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Chicago's Eclectic Theatre at the Athenaeum
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2005 play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a deliciously irreverent romp through a parade of history and fiction, including Judas’ imagined childhood.
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Don Pasquale Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
California's Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has only three things going for it – a sparkling score; a charming story of young love and old foolishness; and more humor than a barrel full of monkeys.
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New York Philharmonic Continues Star Wars
Sometimes the Bad Guys Win
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is generally considered to be the best Star Wars film ever made. The dark middle chapter of the original trilogy came out in 1980 as the second movie released, and remains a firm fan favorite. It boasts an expanded universe, a complicated storyline alternating between the flight of Han Solo and Princess Leia from the evil and remorseless Darth Vader, and the Jedi training of Luke Skywalker at the hands of the diminutive but wise Yoda.
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The Carnegie Hall Season
Brave, Bold, Consummate Art
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017The science of time travel is not normally associated with the classical music business. And yet, one might argue that the finest time travel device in New York City stands not in some hidden laboratory but on the corner of 57th St. and Seventh Avenue. That's right, it's Carnegie Hall, whose 2017-18 season offers the intrepid listener a chance to travel between centuries and musical worlds.
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An Octoroon Near Miami
Florida Premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Play
By: - Oct 02nd, 2017Area stage Company shines in satire about race as An Octoroon's cast finds the right mixture of over-the-top theatricality and nuance. This unique play by an award-winning playwright is entertaining, yet disturbing.
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Lost Lake by David Auburn
Two Hander at BTG’s Unicorn Theatre
By: - Oct 02nd, 2017The shoulder season play Lost Lake, by Tony and Pulitzer winner, David Auburn, is an enthralling and richly rewarding two hander. It would be difficult to image a more finely nuanced production of a skillful and clever play.
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Alves de Sousa's Portuguese Wines
Five Generations Of Perfection
By: - Oct 01st, 2017Alves de Sousa grows their own grapes and experiments with blends. Father Domingos is a wine legend. He has passed the reigns to son, Tiago, who holds family tradition in wine making sacred. The results are clear.
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Church Supper in Pittsfield
German Dinner at Zion Lutheran Church
By: - Sep 30th, 2017Last night we enjoyed a fabulous German dinner with 200 or so other celebrants at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. For just $12 there was a traditional feast of hand rolled, beef rouladen with red cabbage, noodles, and a vegetable medley. That ended with delicious Black Forest cake.
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Principles of Uncertainty at BAM
John Heginbotham and Maira Kalman
By: - Sep 29th, 2017John Heginbotham of DH Dance wanted to work with Maira Kalman after he read her books. They walked together, drank coffee, talked and decided they'd like to do something. They had no idea what. Jacob's Pillow premiered the result in August. Now it is playing at BAM in Brooklyn.
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As You Like It at Classic Stage
A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
By: - Sep 29th, 2017The Classic Stage Theater is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and Shakespeare seems a natural choice. Classic Stage always has an interesting take on playwrights in their productions. This is reflected as soon as you enter the theater area. For this production, it looks unlike any other production you’ve seen here.
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Jacob's Pillow Launches Year-round Programming
Residencies and Public Events
By: - Sep 29th, 2017After celebrating its record-breaking 85th Anniversary Season, Jacob’s Pillow announces new, expanded fall, winter, and spring programming as a main component of Vision ‘22, a strategic approach to the Pillow’s transformation into a year-round center for dance research and development and a civic partner in our region.
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Composer Librettists Development Program
Lawrence Edelson Celebrates Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2017American Lyric Theater was founded in 2005. Lawrence Edelson, a tenor and stage director, wondered how best to develop national operas. When opera was first introduced to the US was intentionally European and elitist. That formula no longer works. New works are springing up all over the country, and the ALT and its composer librettist programs has trained and launched the careers of many of this generations' composers and librettists. At the heart of their program is a kind of master's degree in opera. It is based on mentorship, which subtly differs from teaching.
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Van Shields' A New Vision Comes at a Price
Berkshires Heritage and Legacy Worth More Than $60 Million
By: - Sep 28th, 2017To launch A New Vision for the Berkshire Museum it plans to sell 40 key works for some $60 miillion. That's a pot of gold but comes at a terrible cost to the heritage, legacy and cultural branding of the Berkshires. Van Shiields and the museum board insist that there is no other option. That disrespect raises questions regarding stewardship of the 40,000 works in the collection including 2,395 fine art pieces.
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Bennington Center for the Arts
Announces Award wWnners at Art Opening
By: - Sep 27th, 2017This past weekend The Bennington Center for the Arts held an opening reception for two fall exhibitions, The Collective Members’ Show and the Artists for the New Century. Awards were announced for Artists for the New Century as well as for the outgoing Laumeister Fine Art Competition.
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Food For Thought
Dar Williams Talks About Her New Book
By: - Sep 27th, 2017Dar Williams talks about her new book, 'What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities One Coffee Shop, Dog Run and Open-Mike Night at a Time.' BBQ, Bourbon and beer are on the menu at Hancock Shaker Village.
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Hand to God, by Robert Askins
At The Stage in San Jose
By: - Sep 26th, 2017Playwright Robert Askins draws on his small town Texas upbringing in the Lutheran Church to craft this tale of perverse adults hiding behind conservative fabric and teens ill-suited to their community.
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In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hip Hop Musical in Rochester
By: - Sep 26th, 2017On opening night, everyone in the theater – from old, expected attendees to first-time youngsters – seemed involved and excited throughout. We are looking at a neighborhood — a single block of New York’s Washington Heights – and we simultaneously observe separate families, shops, households.
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Blank Out by Michel Van Der Aa
Miah Persson and Roderick Williams Excel
By: - Sep 26th, 2017Under the canopy formed by the dome of the Drill Hall in the Park Avenue Armory, Michel Van der Aa’s brilliant chamber opera, Blank Out, unfolds. In this gargantuan space, we seemed small and so did elements of the opera.
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Amy Herzog at New York Theatre Workshop
Carrie Coon Stars in Mary Jane
By: - Sep 25th, 2017Award-winning playwright Amy Herzog comes to the New York Theatre Workshop with "Mary Jane." Carrie Coon creates an unforgettable figure in the title role.
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On Site Opera Focuses on Dinosaurs
Natural History Museum Setting
By: - Sep 24th, 2017If you are asked what’s the most exciting character you can think of and answer is 'dinosaurs', it’s just a short leap to the creation of an opera about them if you want a audience that says opera, next, then make an opera about dinosaurs. On Site Opera has done just this.
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Oleanna In South Florida
Mamet play Provokes at Boca Raton Company
By: - Sep 24th, 2017Boca Raton's Evening Star Productions is giving David Mamet's Oleanna a riveting production Thd company's staging is marked by tension, great acting. The bully isn't the professor.
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Van Zweden Intrigues with Glass and Mahler
New NY Philharmonic Conductor a Marvel
By: - Sep 24th, 2017Jaap Van Sweden, the music director designate of the New York Philharmonic has swept the city up in his magic. Katia & Marielle Labèque performed a Philip Glass duo piano concerto under his baton. They have often performed Glass. The acoustics of Geffen Hall caused problems in this piece and the Mahler that followed. Yet the new conductor made clear his chemistry with his orchestra and the audience.
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Prince Of Broadway
Seven Decades of a Legendary Career
By: - Sep 23rd, 2017Well honed actors aside, Prince Of Broadway is saturated with top-of-the-line technical talent, from his co-director and choreographer Susan Stroman, to Jason Robert Brown’s, new songs, arrangements, orchestration and music supervision, Beowulf Boritt’s scenic and production design, William Ivey Long’s Costumes, and Howell Binkley’s lighting, all multiple Tony Winners, give their all.
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The Rembrandt at Steppenwolf Theatre
Charming Morsel of a Play by Jessica Dickey
By: - Sep 23rd, 2017The best reason to see The Rembrandt by Jessica Dickey is the cast, sensitively directed by Hallie Gordon. Two of Steppenwolf’s and Chicago’s finest actors—Francis Guinan and John Mahoney—perform as museum guard, painter and poet
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