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Provincetown Artists: An Oral History
Spectacular Nature Inspired Generations of Leading Artists
By: - Jun 25th, 2025Artists came to study with the renowned teachers Charles Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster then later Henry Hensche and Hans Hofmann. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914 and thrives under current director Christine McCarthy. The book includes essays and interviews from the 1980s through the present. Major artists, galleries and movements are vividly profiled. The summer long Forum '49 workshopped the emergence of abstract expressionism. In the 1950s the small but seminal Sun Gallery showcased 100 emerging artists. It was followed by the influential Long Point Gallery. Meet the whimsical conceptual artist Jay Critchley who has raised millions for charity. Much has changed but this book focuses on a golden age on Cape Cod.
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Doris Duke Theatre Reopens
Jacob's Pillow Celebrates
By: - Jun 26th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival announces the start of an exciting new era with the much anticipated opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre, a transformational space to support the future of dance. Occupying the site of the former studio theater, which was destroyed by fire in November 2020, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre is set to become one of the most technologically advanced theaters in the world dedicated to dance.
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Annunciation
Word for Word's Production of Lauen Groff's Fine Short Story
By: - Jun 24th, 2025Upon college graduation, The Woman re-settles in the Golden State in hopes of finding a new happiness. In her scrounging existence, her life becomes entangled with a co-worker and her landlady. The Woman grows as she faces the challenges of life.
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World Premiere of Long Days
Legacy Theatre in Branford
By: - Jun 25th, 2025The closing night of a show can be fraught with emotions. Cast and crew members have worked hard for weeks through rehearsals and performances. Friendships and feuds have developed. Add in an emotionally demanding play such as Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, and everything is intensified.
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A Class Act
Norman Shabel Produces His Own Play in South Florida
By: - Jun 24th, 2025A South Florida professional production of Norman Shabel's legal drama, "A Class Act" runs through this weekend. "A Class Act" is a call to conscience that we cannot afford to ignore.
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean: A New Musical
This Cult Success as a Play and Movie Now a Musical
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025It is 1975. In the small west Texas town of McCarthy, unwed mother Mona leads a life in remembrance of the 1955 filming of "Giant" in nearby Marfa. Her claim to fame is that her son Jimmy Dean was fathered by the iconic actor James Dean while he was on location and shortly before his death. His "disciples" 20th reunion of his fatal car accident reveals friendship, conflict, and more denouement than you could shake a stick at.
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Provincetown Arts Magazine
40th Anniversary Issue
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025This 40th Anniversary Issue features exclusive interviews with poet Major Jackson, by poet and author Nick Flynn, and painter Joe Diggs, interviewed by writer and artist Andre van der Wende.
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Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
Assemble 1 Features Four Artists
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025Assemble I also celebrates the limitless nature of collage across two- and three-dimensional forms, with diverse textures, materials, and execution styles. Each of our artists offers a distinct, inventive vision. Brad Greenwood, Los Angeles, merges his superb drawing skills with collage, placing the erotic fox often into the mix. Hans Pundt is our local, prolific collage artist of all mediums. His COSMOS Gallery window display welcomes all into this special world.
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Sleeping with Rothko
From The Dishwasher Dialogues
By: - Jun 22nd, 2025The basics for writing are cheaper. I could hold them all and my five-box life in my arms at the same time. But then it would all simply be an exercise in self-entertainment or personal therapy. Somewhere along the line writing requires others. Readers for a start. Even if they are imagined. Then publishers would be a nice touch. Again, even if that is self-publishing.
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The Victim at Shakespeare & Company
Lawrence Goodman World Premiere
By: - Jun 22nd, 2025With The Victim playwright, Lawrence Goodman, has bitten off a lot to chew in a dense one act play that feels more like three. It presents monologues by three remarkable actresses: Stephanie Clayman (Daphne), Yvette King (Maria), and Annette Miller (Ruth). He takes on DEI, The Holocaust, and The Covid Pandemic.
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No King's Day USA
June 14, North Adams, MA
By: - Jun 18th, 202515 organizations and concerned citizens in the Berkshires hosted: Relay for Democracy; No Kings North Adams, Great Barrington, West Stockbridge and Pittsfield; and Projecting Democracy, from 8 in the morning until 11 pm at night. A very busy and important day!
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BODYTRAFFIC at Jacob's Pillow
LA-based Company July 2 Through 6
By: - Jun 19th, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the LA-based contemporary dance company BODYTRAFFIC for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut, Wednesday, July 2 through Sunday, July 6. This engagement will occur in the second week of the historic summer festival’s nine-week season. Renowned for their “invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe), BODYTRAFFIC will offer dynamic performances exploring the power of memory and the unexpected reminders all around us that provoke deep feelings of nostalgia.
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Greg Reiner Managing Director for Barrington Stage
Was Director of Theater and Musical Theater for NEA
By: - Jun 20th, 2025The Board of Directors of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is pleased to announce Greg Reiner as the company’s new Managing Director. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025.
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Fast Eddy Rubin at 84
Astounding NY Theatre and Arts Critic
By: - Jun 16th, 2025Colleague and friend Edward Fast Eddy Rubin was astounding and incorrigible. He was a regular contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. Though he enjoyed getting comped he was slow to submit reviews often just when shows were about to or already had closed. He was the leader of our pack with unflinching panache and humor. The moniker came early on when he worked for a PR firm. He was dispatched with orders "Eddy, quick go here or there and do this or that." His promptness in executing these commands identified him as Fast Eddy. This obit is written by New Orleans based critic and ATCA member Alan Smason.
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Tartuffe
Pocket Opera's Zany Production Based on the Classic Moliere Farce
By: - Jun 17th, 2025Orgon is taken in by the false piety of rapscallion Tartuffe. He wants his daughter to marry Tartuffe but arranges to make the fraudster his sole heir before the wedding occurs. Needless to say, this causes consternation and crisis to his blood family.
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Idomeneo
San Francisco Opera Brings Out the Best of Mozart's Earliest Major Opera
By: - Jun 16th, 2025Drawn from classic Greek tragedy, the King of Crete begs an indulgence from Neptune to save him from raging waters. The price is that Idomeneo is to sacrifice the first person he sees on shore. That turns out to be his son. Idomeneo deals with internal conflict throughout.
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Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, Deb Mell
Berta Walker Gallery
By: - Jun 18th, 2025Provincetown's Berta Walker Gallery is presenting four, one person shows by Carmen Cicero, Lucy Clark, Danielle Mailer, and Deb Mell. They open on June 27 and run through July 20.
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Pioneering Photographer Bernice Abbott
Clark Art Institute Presents Her Portraits of People and Places
By: - Jun 16th, 2025he Clark Art Institute marks the 100-year anniversary of Berenice Abbott’s first photographs with an exhibition examining the relationship between her portraits of people and her “portraits” of places. Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991) was one of the most important American photographers of the twentieth century, known for her pioneering documentary style, unpretentious compositions, and technical innovations.
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Paris The Dishwasher Dialogues
Sleeping with Rothko
By: - Jun 15th, 2025I recall you always taking photos of yourself in these photo booths, often with staff and friends from the restaurant. Or with whoever happened to be with you at the time. Whenever we were on the metro together, changing metro lines or exiting, you would see a booth and suddenly track straight toward it. A compulsion. In hindsight, it was a bit strange, given we had access to your darkroom.
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The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie
Directed by Evan Goodchild
By: - Jun 15th, 2025With his first feature length film "The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie" Evan Goodchild has created a complex portrait of a brilliant but troubled artist who ended his life at age 64. In a New York Times obituary Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Gillespie had his first solo show in 1966 at the Forum Gallery and was included in several Whitney Biennials in the 1960's and 70's, but he remained an art world outsider, respected by many but enthusiastically embraced by few."
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Co-Founders
ACT's Riveting World Premiere of a Bay Area Based Hip-Hop Musical
By: - Jun 14th, 2025Esata is an ace computer coder, and Conway has a high-tech innovation that lacks code. They join forces and aspire to develop the product at an incubator in San Francisco. The narrative follows this and several other subplots in an uplifting homage to the Bay Area, and especially, a love letter to Oakland.
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The Baroness
Playhouse on Park
By: - Jun 15th, 2025This world premiere provides for a delightfully funny evening in the theater. You can always count on Jacques Lamarre to push the envelope with his humor. He is at his best with this show..
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Your Name Means Dream by José Rivera
TheaterWorks-Hartford
By: - Jun 15th, 2025Is this the future? Elderly people “cared for” by artificial intelligence humanoids?
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N/A A New Play at Barrington Stage
Timely Political Drama.
By: - Jun 12th, 2025Given the President’s assault on the arts and higher education the one act, two hander “N/A a New Play” by Mario Correa may be taken as a bold act of defiance by Barrington Stage Company. It is likely to move the Berkshires based company up a few notches on the White House enemies list.
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James Silin Musician and Farmer
Performed as Jimmie Midnight
By: - Jun 11th, 2025We met as undergraduates at Brandeis and remained connected all these years. He was my go to analyst for science and politics. Part of that was attending weekly demonstrations. He and Ann lived frugally on food that they grew. There was ongoing war with "the critters." That melancholy was heard in his singular blues.
