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Hand to God at the Booth on Broadway
Stunning Performances in an Edgy Play
By: - May 21st, 2015Robert Askins' play started at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and has not stopped since. It arrived on Broadway in time to receive five Tony nominations this year: three for actors, one for the play and the other for direction. Shows you what aa hand to God can do.
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Butler by Richard Strand
Civil War Comedy Launches Berkshire Season
By: - May 21st, 2015With a striking resemblance to the Civil War General Benjamin Butler the hilarious performance by David Schramm in "Butler" launches the Berkshire season at Barrington Stage Company. Based on actual characters and events the playwright, Richard Strand, stretches the facts to create an evening of outrageous comedy.
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The Last Two People On Earth Sings at A.R.T.
An Apocalyptic Vaudeville Full of Fun and Despair
By: - May 20th, 2015Literally Apocalypse Wow, it’s the end of the world as we know it. A flood of biblical proportions leaves the earth with only two people. An always happy one and a mostly despairing one discover their common language is song and dance. Together they chronicle the rise and fall and hopeful rise again of humankind through music. Song and dance run the gamut from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim, and R.E.M. to Queen.
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Inana by Michele Lowe
Timeline Theatre's Chicago Premiere
By: - May 19th, 2015Playwright Michele Lowe started out as a journalist with a degree from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Her plays have been produced around the U.S. and in other countries. Both Inana and Victoria Musica were finalists for the American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award in 2010, the first time that a playwright was nominated for two plays in one season.
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Taubman Museum of Art
Opened in Roanoke, Virginia in 2008
By: - May 19th, 2015The Taubman Museum of Art occupies a dramatic, 81,000-square-foot geometrically oblique building just across from Roanoke, Virginia’s historic Marketplace Square. Designed by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout and completed in 2008, the museum, with its swooping and soaring metal roof, is a dramatic architectural presence that has established itself as a major force in the life of Roanoke’s thriving arts community.
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ICA to Expand
Lucky Break After Poor Initial Design Issues
By: - May 19th, 2015After less than a decade the land locked ICA on the waterfront has run out of space. There is a desperate plan to expand into two floors of a 17 floor adjacent building which is under construction. It has become ever more obvious that the award winning design by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. is proving to be an utter dysfunctional disaster.
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Light Up the Sky Beacons Us to Theatrical Laughs
Comedic View of Putting On A Show
By: - May 19th, 2015Set in the Ritz-Carlton Boston in the late 1940s, Light Up the Sky is a backstage comedy about the eccentric, colorful artists and producers involved in breathing life into a Broadway-bound play. Here we witness that frightening moment of anticipation and terror just before an audience sees the opening performance. We view the grand, charismatic leading lady, the hopeful young playwright, the high-strung director, the boorish producer and his comical wife along with a monster mother in this affectionate, hilarious and even a bit corny look at what used to be referred to as the "legitimate" theatre. With a wonderful cast, it is an entertaining way to spend some time smiling in the dark.
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Mandy Greenfield of Williamstown Theatre Festival
Discusses First Season as Artistic Director
By: - May 18th, 2015Meeting for Happy Hour we discussed the strong, star studded first season for Mandy Greenfield the artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. We explored an overview of the elements that must mesh under the pressure of a tight festival format to result in richly compelling theatre.
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Janet Echelman's Dazzeling Aerial Sculpture
With This Project, Boston Has Become A Public Art Player
By: - May 17th, 2015A major piece of public art was floated above the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Downtown Boston. The scale, complexity and the fact that it was even done at all makes a clear statement that Boston has joined the 21st Century. The artwork by artist Janet Echelman is a strong indication that the sky is now literally the limit.
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The Provincetown Theater
Announces the 2015 Season
By: - May 15th, 2015The Provincetown Theater announces its 2015 season. An eclectic blend of the old and new, this year's lineup reflects key moments in the history of theater on the Outer Cape and beyond. Eugene O'Neill to Ryan Landry, Lonely Planet to Oleanna will join Broadway veterans on the stage in Provincetown to help celebrate 100 years of exhilarating performances, inspired new American plays and powerful theatrical experiences in Provincetown..
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Keith Lockhart Celebrates 20 Years with Pops
With Bernadette Peters at Tanglewood July 5
By: - May 15th, 2015After one of the worst winters on record yet again Spring means six glorious weeks of the Boston Pops. We participated in the gala opening night launch of Keith Lockhart's 20th season. His guest was Broadway star Bernadette Peters. It provided a preview of their appearance together at Tanglewood on July 5.
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The Little Foxes in Chicago
Hellman's Play at Goodman Theatre
By: - May 15th, 2015Goodman's excellent new production of The Little Foxes, directed with style by Henry Wishcamper, stars a galaxy of Chicago's finest actors and surely resonates with some of the current discussions about racism, sexism, domestic abuse and income inequality. If you have a drink with friends after the show, those topics probably will be part of your post-play discussion.
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Wine & Food Festival of New Paltz
May 29-31st featuring Martha Stewart
By: - May 14th, 2015Taste over 700 wines and food from throughout the world at Mohonk Mountain House
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Northern Berkshires Blockbuster Arts Summer
From Warhol and Wilco to van Gogh and Inge
By: - May 14th, 2015Now in his final weeks as director of the Clark Art Institute Michael Conforti hosted a media event promoting a blockbuster season for Northern Berkshire County. There were presentations by Joe Thompson for Mass MoCA, Tina Olsen for the Williams College Museum of Art, and Mandy Greenfield for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Notably absent from the media event were North Adams based arts presenters Downstreet, The Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Rudd Museum of Art and the fall annual Williamstown Film Festival.
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Mothers & Sons Bond at SpeakEasy
Brilliant Acting Underscores Touching Narrative
By: - May 11th, 2015A touching play exploring our evolving understanding of what it means to be a family. At times funny, provocative, and poignant, this drama follows Dallas matriarch Katharine Gerard on an unexpected visit to New York City to meet with her late son’s former partner, who is now married to another man and raising a young son. Forced to consider the life that her son might have led, Katharine must now come to terms with her own life choices. And certainly, society has changed around her. Wonderful acting underscores this quality production.
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The Project(s) by American Theatre Company
Dramatizes Chicago's Public Housing
By: - May 11th, 2015Paparelli and his co-writer, Joshua Jaeger, conducted about 100 interviews over five years with current and former residents of public housing, plus scholars and city officials. His docudrama isn't a dreary recitation of blame and political failure. The problems are not ignored, but the resulting production is a lively and thoroughly engrossing story in words, rhythm and music.
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Tony Simotes Part Three
Act Two with Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - May 02nd, 2015In the third and final installment of an interview with Tony Simotes he describes the epiphany and divine intervention that resulted with leaving Shakespeare & Company and beginning what he calls act two with Berkshire Theatre Group. Having overcome personal and family adversity he views each day as a gift and the opportunity to have a positive impact in theatre and the cultural community of the Berkshires.
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Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha
Journey of a Prince and an Artist
By: - Apr 29th, 2015From 1833 to 1834, the explorer and naturalist Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Germany, traveled on a 2,500-mile journey into the American Interior, generally following the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-6). Maximilian was accompanied by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whom the prince had hired to record the cities, rivers, and people they saw along the way. Maximilian and the 23-year-old Bodmer left St. Louis in April 1833 and
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Provincetown Artist/ Activist Jay Crichtley
Retrospective at Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Apr 28th, 2015The Provincetown based based conceptual artist a master of gonzo agit-prop, Jay Critchley, is having his first museum level solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. We visited his cluttered home, studio and back yard where he was preparing works for installation in the museum. We viewed the artifacts from numerous projects and conceptual works.
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Have You Found Your Summer Wine
Value and Quality Count
By: - Apr 28th, 2015Decopas is a perfect affordable wine. The tradition in Argentina, as in many countries, is that after the conclusion of a work day, Happy Hour begins. Argentineans have their own expression for Happy Hour, which is, ‘De copes’ or by the glass.
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Namibia: Part Five
Etosha National Park
By: - Apr 27th, 2015Namibia's iconic vast savannah wilderness consists of woodland and grassy plains, surrounding the massive Etosha salt pan, its desiccated white surface visible from the air. Perennial springs around the edge of the pan provide the water required by the park's high density big game population and other wildlife.
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Pisco--Peru's Answer to Spirits
Makes a Great Mixer
By: - Apr 26th, 2015Pisco came into being as a way to use leftover grapes that were undesirable for winemaking. The distilled grapes were turned into a high-proof spirit.
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Traveling Exhibition of Vintage Paintings
By: - Apr 25th, 2015Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is a full-scale exhibit of about 45 of Motley's paintings now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center. Along the corridor leading to the gallery is a display of information about Motley's life and work. Jazz age music plays on the gallery sound system. Prior to Chicago the exhibition was on view at the LA Country Museum of Art. The next stop if the Whitney Museum of American Art
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2015 Drama Desk Award Nominations
John Douglas Thompson's Special Award
By: - Apr 25th, 2015During the 2015 Drama Desk Awards a special award will be given to John Douglas Thompson: For invigorating theater in New York through his commanding presence, classical expertise, and vocal prowess. This season he demonstrated exceptional versatility in Tamburlaine the Great and The Iceman Cometh. He is familiar to Berkshire audience for outstanding performances for Shakespeare & Company. The renowned actor will return to Lenox this summer.
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The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate
Less May Just Be Less At Senatorial Memorial
By: - Apr 16th, 2015To commemorate the life and service of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a new educational and research institute was recently opened adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Dorchester Bay overlooking Boston Harbor. Though created by a star architect Rafael Viñoly, the structure is spare and initially uninviting. If such a thing can exist, it is minimalism light.
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