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In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play
By Sarah Ruhl at Pear Theatre
By: - Sep 23rd, 2017“In the Next Room” explores change, and how technology brings it about. In addition to the impact revealed by use of a newly developed personal appliance, it touches on the profound macro consequences of the coming of electricity.
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The Legend of Pink, by Kheven LaGrone
Theatre Rhinoceros San Francisco
By: - Sep 23rd, 2017The Legend of Pink also surfaces important social issues outside the transgender realm. One is communication style by blacks who are socialized in mostly black communities.
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God of Carnage at Shakespeare & Company
Fall Show a Barrel of Monkeys
By: - Sep 23rd, 2017For its fall foliage production Shakespeare & Company have produced a corker. Regge Life has directed four masters of the company in Yasmina Reza's 2009 Tony wnner God of Carnage. The all star ensemble includes S&Co. veterans Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Allyn Burrows, Jonathan Croy and Kristin Wold. Saving the best for last it is the most hilarious comedy of the Berkshire season.
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Jaap Van Zweden at NY Philharmonic
Another Openin', Another Maestro
By: - Sep 20th, 2017The changing of the guard at any major symphony orchestra is a long and complicated challenge. For the New York Philharmonic, who are in the process of installing the Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden as its new music director, that took another turn on Tueday night. Van Zweden is not quite "here" yet. He will start his first official season with the orchestra in 2018.
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Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge
At Chicago's Goodman Theatre
By: - Sep 20th, 2017Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s visionary production retains virtually all Arthur Miller’s language but places it in a simplified setting that resembles a cage or fighting ring. The bare stage is surrounded on three sides by benches, with a single door at the rear. Miller’s narrator, local lawyer Alfieri (Ezra Knight) is omnipresent and adds poetic transitions to the action. The play is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, near the docks.
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New York Philharmonic Opens Its Season
Jaap Van Zweden at the Helm
By: - Sep 19th, 2017The New York Philharmonic throws open its doors with a concert they are dubbing the Gala of 106 All-Stars. The program is unusual and heavy for an opening night: Gustav Mahler's burly five-movement Symphony No. 5. The real star of the show will be on the podium: Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden who is one year away from beginning his tenure as the orchestra's newest Music Director.
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The Violin by Dan McCormick
Premier at 59E59 Theaters
By: - Sep 19th, 2017Dan McCormick has taken a Stradivarius left in a cab and told the story of a changing neighborhood in the East Village and values that do not endure. A thank you concert won’t cut the mustard as thanks in this section of town. What will?
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War Stories from Opera Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art Provides Dramatic Setting
By: - Sep 18th, 2017Inaugurating your season with a festival is setting the entertainment bar a notch higher. One after another as this festival week unfolds, dramas of high intensity, great variety set in unusual locations proceed to both jar and move. It is a mind-blowing experience.
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Sondra Radvanovsky at Opera Philadelphia
Celeste Radvanovsky Forma Divina
By: - Sep 18th, 2017Sondra Radvanovsky is a sublime dramatic singing artist. She has never performed in Philadelphia, and a packed Perlman Theater greeted her arrival. She did not disappoint. Dressed in a smashing deep blue strapless gown and bedecked in juicy rhinestones she sang her heart out. She explained that she was going to show us who she was..
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Star Wars Begins at New York Philharmonic
A Splendid Start to the Series
By: - Sep 18th, 2017There would be no Star Wars without the music of John Williams. On Friday night, the composer's stirring opening music sent hairs standing on end as the New York Philharmonic gave its second performance of the complete orchestral score of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Their task: accompanying George Lucas' 1997 remastered "Special Edition" of the beloved 1977 science fiction classic.
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Berkshire Museum Financials
Follow the Money
By: - Sep 18th, 2017Based on an extensive Berkshire Eagle background check of Van Shields, and a failed attempt to create a radical new museum in South Carolina, it appears that he arrived in Pittsfield, a month after being fired, with an agenda. Funding plans that failed there entail selling 40 treasures of the Berkshire Museum. Through intensive study of non profit reports filed with the charity desk of the Attorney General, Thomas White, with knowledge of these matters, has sent us bullet points. They shed light on the "dire straits" forcing the museum to decimate its legacy to rebuild for the future.
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We Shall Not Be Moved Premieres
A Moving Hip-Opera at Opera Philadelphia
By: - Sep 17th, 2017Years of work between the Philadelphia community and Opera Philadelphia were realized in a Hip-opera by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Bill T. Jones, a maker, came in for the finishing touches.
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Opera Philadelphia Launches a Festival
Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell Strike Again
By: - Sep 17th, 2017Opera Philadelphia is the 'it' opera company in the United States. No one has been more successful in developing new opera, honing talent and developing audiences. The festival displays many facets of their work.
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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
At Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco
By: - Sep 16th, 2017This production that delves into molestation is a worthy realization of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning and otherwise highly decorated play, How I Learned to Drive. The story of Li’l Bit unfolds in a non-linear, but clearly demarcated fashion, from the character’s eleventh year until she is 35.
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North Adams Primary Vote September 19
Mayoral Candidate Tom Bernard Makes a Loft Call
By: - Sep 16th, 2017For the first time in three decades there is an open race for Mayor of North Adams. On Tuesday, September 19, there will be a primary vote for Mayor. Five names will be on the ballot for Mayor- Tom Bernard, Rachel Branch, Robert Martelle, Robert Moulton Jr. and Peter Oleskiewicz. Of these Oleskiewicz has withdrawn from the race. Bernard was invited to the Eclipse Mill to speak with artists and members of the community.
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Shanghai Opera at the Metropolitan Museum
Farewell My Concubine
By: - Sep 15th, 2017The Metropolitan Museum uses it galleries and collections to present events. The Shanghai Opera's production of Farewell My Concubine, based on a 3rd century BC story, fit perfectly in the Chinese Courtyard modelled on the Ming Dynasty Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets.
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Neil Simon Comedy at North Coast Rep Theatre
By: - Sep 15th, 2017North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) artistic director David Ellenstein’s selection of “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers”, is a definite winner in kicking off its 36th season. It’s one of Simon’s best comedies. Deftly directed by Christopher Williams, the four person cast takes to this play like ducks to water.
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'Fresh Grass' Festival Day One At Mass MoCa
Be There Or Be Square
By: - Sep 15th, 2017The Annual 'Fresh Grass' Festival of Bluegrass Music opens its doors at 5:30 pm, today, at Mass MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts. It will be a fun filled three day weekend.
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The Violin at 59E59 Theaters
World Premier of Dan McCormick's Play
By: - Sep 15th, 2017Playwright Dan McCormick has taken a Stradivarius left in a cab and told the story of a changing neighborhood in the East Village and values that do not endure. A thank you concert won’t cut the mustard as thanks in this section of town. What will?
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The Roads of North America - Part 6
San Francisco Bay and Sausalito Houseboats
By: - Sep 14th, 2017This is our second article from the San Francisco area and continuation of The Roads of North America. More than 50 photographs accompany this report. The views along the Bay and other discoveries are well worth seeing - no doubt!
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Japan Society Presents Osada Opera
East Meets West in Four Nights of Dream
By: - Sep 14th, 2017Moto Osada’s first opera, Four Nights of Dream, is, like the composer, a cross over between East and West. Osada composed the music and libretto. The flexibility that gave him has yielded a work of exquisite sensibility.
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Greenland
A journey South of the Polar Circle
By: - Sep 13th, 2017Greenland, the world's largest island, offers majestic mountains, green valleys and picturesque fjords dotted with icebergs along its eastern coast. Towns of Tasiilaq and Kusuluk are home to Inuits, who have a unique way of life mediated by their environment.
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Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Produced by Opera San Jose
By: - Sep 13th, 2017Opera San Jose opened its 34th season with a handsome production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular opera buffa, Cosi Fan Tutte. A winsome cast of strong singers with fine acting chops yields a highly entertaining outcome.
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Deirdre of the Sorrows at City Lit Theatre
Irish Drama by John Millington Synge
By: - Sep 13th, 2017John Millington Synge, who is best known for his plays Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea, left an unfinished draft of Deirdre of the Sorrows when he died in 1909. The play was finished by William Butler Yeats and Synge’s fiancée, Molly Allgood.
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Five Candidates for State Rep
Race for First Berkshire District
By: - Sep 12th, 2017Last night at Bounty Fair, a North Adams restaurant, five candidates were given ten minutes. They are running to serve the final year of former Rep. Gail Cariddi, who passed away while in office. Running unopposed the Republican, Christine Canning, spoke first. Drawing lots she was followed by Stephanie Bosley, Lisa Blackmer, Kevin Towle and John Barrett III.
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