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Matisse in the Studio at the MFA
Collectibles Demonstrate Master Artist's Theatricality
By: - May 13th, 2017Matisse’s collectibles had a profound influence on his creative choices. Allowing us a priceless opportunity to see how the artist’s mind worked and the ways his creative process unfolded, this magnetic exhibition at the MFA Boston allows us to examine them in relationship to his art. As its only North American venue, Matisse in the Studio will only visit Boston.
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Lady Bird and Fireworks at Hunter Opera
21st Century Musical Takes
By: - May 13th, 2017Lady Bird Johnson is now known for her signature role in the beatification of America, but as her husband prepared for his 1964 Presidential campaign, in which he crushed Barry Goldwater, he enlisted the aid of his wife, a Southerner, in wooing voters in the South. Vernacular music enhances the Lady Bird opera and also Fireworks by Kitty Brazelton, in which we see our present through the eyes of the future.
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On Site Opera Presents Mozart
The Secret Garden
By: - May 13th, 2017On Site Opera is committed to producing in a place that echoes the theme or setting of an opera. The enchanting West Side Community Garden provided the set for an early Mozart opera. The cast was superb, picking tulips, dashing through flowerbeds, all for the seeming purpose of finding love. Where better to look and listen than a garden?
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Massive Rauschenberg Exhibition Headed to NY
Mulling Over Perls of Wisdom
By: - May 12th, 2017When visiting the Frank Stella retropective at the Whitney in 2015 the critic had his car towed. The event was so costly and inconvenient that Martin Mugar is thinking twice of driving to Manhattan to view the upcoming Rauschenberg exhibition. Many of his concerns and misgivings are informed by the critical comments of the critic Jed Perl. Here Mugar refects on Perls of wsdom. They enforce his own ideas of how Rauschenberg is emeblematic of the decline and fall of art in our time. As Mugar states "If you like your postmodern condition you can keep your postmodern condition and Rauschenberg's your guy."
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Met Opera Ends Season with a Bang
Alagna Sings Cyrano
By: - May 11th, 2017Opera is a form of many pieces. When the set, production, singing and orchestra work together, opera makes its own case. Cyrano de Bergerac realizes the seemingly Sisyphean task beautifully.
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The King and I on National Tour
Award-Winning Production Visits Miami
By: - May 10th, 2017Lincoln Center Theater's The King and I is a richly-emotional experience. Performers shine in an equity national tour of popular musical about Anna and the King of Siam The perrenial musical proves relevant decades after its Broadway premiere.
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WOW at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mssachusetts
What a World of Wearable Art
By: - May 10th, 2017A recommendation for the Peabody Essex Museum to see particularly the special exhibition 'WOW' came in an understated manner, or I just did not pick up quickly enough what a delight the show would represent. We drove to Salem from Gloucester, where we were visiting, on a rainy and miserable afternoon and that made our day!
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Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau
Chicago's Timeline Theatre
By: - May 10th, 2017Paradise Blue is the third play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit cycle, which was inspired by August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle. The other two plays are Detroit ’67, produced in 2013 by Northlight Theatre, which has scheduled the third play, Skeleton Crew, to open in January 2018. Timeline staged Morisseau’s Sunset Baby (set in New York) in 2016.
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Into the Woods with Artist Gabrielle Barzaghi
Hermit of Dogtown Previews Trident Gallery Exhibition
By: - May 09th, 2017Some years ago they built a home and studio on some 20 acres deep in the woods of Cape Ann's legendary Dogtown Common. They like the privacy and seclusion. During a recent week in Gloucester we met for an extensive studio visit and discussion of the upcoming June exhibition "Gabrielle Barzaghi: Perfect World" at Trident Gallery. Several drawings created in enraged response to outrageous statements by Donald Trump were included in The Body Politic a group exhibition and performance series at the gallrery.
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Desert Rose Theatre's Clark Gable Slept Here
Michael McKeever's Hollywood Satire
By: - May 09th, 2017The Desert Rose Theatre, of Cathedral City, the only theatrical venue serving the LBGTQ community, is presenting a slick, snappy, and outrageously funny production written by Michael McKeever, that bills itself as a dark comedy spoof/satire entitled “Clark Gable Slept Here”, a Hollywood Fable directed by Resident Director and theatre co-Founder Jim Strait.
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Trisha Brown This Summer in the Berkshires
Jacob's Pillow and Clark Art Institute Collaborate
By: - May 08th, 2017Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival has added two more opportunities for audiences to experience Trisha Brown Dance Company. Originally a five-performance run, August 16-19 in the Ted Shawn Theatre, the Pillow has added a Thursday matinee to the company’s schedule. Members of Trisha Brown Dance Company will also perform the site-specific work Trisha Brown: In Plain Site at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, August 13, a co-presentation of Jacob’s Pillow Dance and the Clark.
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Lauren Yee's Hookman in Chicago
Existential Slasher Comedy at Steep Theatre
By: - May 08th, 2017Playwright Lauren Yee calls her play Hookman an “existential slasher comedy.” And Steep Theatre’s new production takes her up on that with creative staging, solid performances, especially by the three female leads—and plenty of blood. Hookman is smartly directed by Vanessa Stalling
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Outer Critics Circle
2016-2017 Award Winners
By: - May 08th, 2017Surprise surprise! Bette Midler won for Hello Dolly. Will such wonders ever cease?
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Deval Patrick Initiates Food For Thought
Series Launched At Hancock Shaker Village
By: - May 08th, 2017Ex-Governor, Deval Patrick, will host the first, 'Food For Thought', speaker series at Hancock Shaker Village on Friday, May 12th. He will talk over dinner about his autobiography, A Reason To Believe.
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Trade Secrets Is This Weekend
Rare Plants And Garden Antiques
By: - May 08th, 2017Trade Secrets, a rare plant and garden antique show and sale takes place this weekend, May 13th and 14th at lion Rock Farm in Sharon, Ct. The event benefits Women's Support Services.
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Dianne Wiest as Winnie in Happy Days
Theatre for a New Audience Presents a Yale Rep Production
By: - May 07th, 2017Happy Days is here again, if not in the Democratic party, perhaps alive and well in Brooklyn. Dianne Wiest plays Samuel Beckett's iconic role with a marvel of tonal and emotional variety. The Theatre for a New Audience Production is mesmerizing.
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Marriage of Figaro at Boston Lyric Opera
Young Cast Delivers
By: - May 06th, 2017As the final opera in its 40th anniversary season, the BLO ended on an exuberant note. The Mozart classic was transposed from the 18th century Vienna suburbs to a villa in 1950s Italy, allowing a range of chic retro fashions to take stage center. But the young singers, all in fine voice, did not let the costumes upstage them. This might not have been a profound "Figaro," but it was fun, which might be just what Mozart and da Ponte wanted.
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Harry Houdini in Miami
Show About Escape Artist at Arsht Center
By: - May 06th, 2017Fusion of magic, mystery, music and storytelling make Death & Harry Houdini captivating. Artists shine in play with music about famed escape artist. Disappear into the world of Harry Houdini in play at South Florida venue.
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Muntadas: Projects/Proposals
At New York's Kent Gallery
By: - May 05th, 2017Muntadas’ original version of Emisión/Recepción was made in Madrid at a moment when Franco’s control over the media left Spain with but one TV station. All locations and all viewership was confined to the same exact broadcast at all times.
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Barrington Stage 2017
Mark Your Calendar
By: - May 05th, 2017Here is a clip and save rundown of the 2017 season of Barrington Stage Company. It begins on May 18 with Kinstler by Jeffrey Sweet, directed by Meagen Fay. Performances: Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30pm; Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 3:00pm. Opening night May 21, 2017. The programm ends on October 22 with Gaslight.
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Joshua Roman Performs at The Crypt
Cellist Beams Us Up with Mystery and Spirituality
By: - May 04th, 2017Joshua Roman approaches his cello as a friend and collaborator. The Crypt Sessions invite audiences to be friends and collaborative listeners and to meet and greet on the terrace of the Church of the Intercession as the sun sets. Over delicious foods by Ward 8 and wine selected by Magnum Opus, you find out why your fellow Crypt listeners have come.
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Gloucester's Duckworth's Bistrot
Fails to Live Up to Its Reputation
By: - May 03rd, 2017During high season it's challenging to get a reservation at the renowned Duckworth's Bistrot the most widely touted destination for fine dining in Gloucester. Due to lapses of attention it proved to be a disappointing experience. There is no excuse for soup served at near to room temperature and incinerated meat. You expect more from a top chef.
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Angel and Echoes at 59E59
Henry Naylor's Exploration of Women Warriors
By: - May 03rd, 2017Henry Naylor is known as a comic writer for the British shows Spitting Image, Headcases, Dead Ringers and Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression. In the last three years, he has written three plays about the conflicts in the Middle East that focus on women.
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A Length of Rope at The Muse
Brooklyn's Home for Circus and Immersive Events
By: - May 02nd, 2017The Muse is a special place in Brooklyn. Angela Buccini founded the space for artists to develop projects and then present them. A Length of Rope features Ariel Schmidtke joined by Strangely, & Above and Beyond Dance on May 5 at 8pm.
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Turner at the Frick
Britain's 19th Century Painter of Light
By: - May 02nd, 2017A beautifully presented exhibition built around works from The Frick Collection, Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time, brings together 37 water colors, drawings, engravings, sketchbooks and oil paintings, from 1817 – 1845, a turning point in the artist’s career.
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