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Jazz in the Berkshires
Bousquet Jazz Festival
By: - Aug 01st, 2023A series of august jazz programming, is the upcoming month. With our friends at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute paying increased attention to jazz, two local dates by itinerant pianist Peggy Stern, and the second annual Bousquet Jazz Festival, there’s plenty to choose from.
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Orfeo
A Scintillating World Premiere Orchestration of This Oldest Opera
By: - Aug 03rd, 2023The uniqueness of Santa Fe Opera's facility and setting make for a stunning visualization of Monteverdi's early masterpiece. With the back stagewall initially open to nature, the scenario begins in literal and figurative brightness; followed by a threatening storm in the mesas behind; leading to brutal darkness on stage with deliciously harsh lighting effects. Modern orchestration smooths the Baroque edges of the music.
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August Wilson's Masterpiece
Fences at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The power of Fences derives from the mastery with which August Wilson conflated the mojo of the blues with the paradigms of Greek tragedy. This play is as intricately structured as works by Sophocles and Aeschylus. While rooted in the African American culture of Pittsburgh, Wilson was at heart every bit a classicist.
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Pelléas et Mélisande
Santa Fe Opera's Take on a Brooding Tale from Debussy and Maeterlinck
By: - Aug 05th, 2023Claude Debussy sought a prospective opera libretto in which characters seemed out of place, out of time, and only half disclosed. For “Pelléas et Mélisande,” he found his soulmate in future Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck, whose opaqueness suited Debussy so well that he adapted the playwright’s work almost verbatim. The result was a turn-of-the-century landmark - Debussy’s only completed opera.
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The Nightingale & Erwartung - A Double Bill
West Edge Opera Offers a Dynamic Duo of Short, Atonal Operas
By: - Aug 08th, 2023Stravinsky's "The NIghtingale" sets a simple but thoughtful Hans Christian Anderson tale to music. Production values sizzle. With Schoenberg's "Erwartung," the setting of the psychologically-driven soliloquy is switched from forest to hospital. The use of dancers as mute characters adds depth and diversity to the narrative.
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Summer Stock by Cheri Steinkellner
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Aug 10th, 2023Summer Stock is a new old-fashioned musical bringing joy to audiences at Goodspeed. It is unabashedly old-fashioned.
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Kicking the Can of Drawing
Hegel and Other Matters
By: - Aug 15th, 2023Recently, Jason Travers an artist in the Providence area and a former student from AIB sent me an image of the kind of “drawing” he sees in the asphalt fillings that are ubiquitous on New England roads: an effort to fill in the cracks formed on roads due to frost heaves. The cracks left unattended only speed up the deterioration of the road.
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On Cedar Street at Berkshire Theatre Group
World Premiere Musical
By: - Aug 20th, 2023On Cedar Street is an intimate, compact musical compressed into one long act on a busy, cluttered set. On Cedar Street which entails the late life romance of widow and widower in rural Colorado is having its world premiere at the Unicorn Theatre of Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Jacob's Pillow On Site Residencies
Year Round Programming
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Jacob’s Pillow today announced the artists who will participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Ilya Vidrin, Sekou McMiller, LaJuné McMillian, Minty Fresh Circus, Aakash Odedra, Kyle Marshall Choreography, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Theresa Ruth Howard, and Miguel Gutierrez.
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Martha Graham Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow
The Oldest American Dance Group
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023The venerable and totally contemporary Martha Graham Dance Company was in residence from August 16 to August 20 at Jacob's Pillow. The dancers gave memorable and also frenzied performances.....
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Williamstown artist Jane Hudson
Major Arcana Paintings and 22-card Tarot Deck
By: - Aug 24th, 2023These paintings, inspired by the Major Arcana cards in the traditional Rider-Waite tarot deck, are also the inspiration for a Major Arcana-specific 22-card tarot deck released by Jane Hudson this summer with WIld Soul River.
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Beauty and the Beast
A Big Show Presented Small
By: - Aug 26th, 2023The desire to produce shows that are well-known is understandable, but it is also important for theaters to focus on what they do best.
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Boca Stage Moves
Relocates to Larger Space
By: - Aug 30th, 2023The Delray Beach Playhouse is the new home for Boca Stage in Southeast Florida. Up until recently, Boca Stage mounted its productions in Boca Raton's intimate Sol Theatre. In its new space, Boca Stage will be able to seat more than 140 patrons, compared to 70 at the Sol.
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Two Friends: A Tragedy In Gloucester
Demise of the Fishing Fleet
By: - Aug 31st, 2023In a photo essay Steve Nelson documented the destruction and salvage of a torched fishing vessel "Two Friends." It's a poignant signifier of the demise of Gloucester's once vibrant fishing fleet and industry.
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Gerry Bergstein Dithering Machines
Gallery Naga
By: - Aug 31st, 2023September at Gallery Naga opens with a bang--prepare to be transported into the frenetic universe that is Gerry Bergstein’s brain.
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Oppenheimer, the Film
No Answers for Creative Impulses of Great Scientists
By: - Sep 04th, 2023Oppenheimer, the film. Prepare your rotten tomatoes. The movie is loud, gray and one-dimensional.
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Ballet Hispánico
Launches Tour in Connecticut
By: - Sep 05th, 2023Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latinx cultural organization and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces a 2023-24 Season tour stop at Garde Arts Center on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8pm.
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Lenox Jazz Stroll
Schedule Updates
By: - Sep 05th, 2023The Mill Town Foundation has announced an updated schedule for the Lenox Jazz Stroll. The timeframe will be the same as always, on the third weekend in September, but the times and some of the details have changed.
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Pause at Eclipe Mill Gallery
Debi Pendel and Melanie Mowinski
By: - Sep 05th, 2023Melanie and I have wanted to collaborate for years, and finally decided to pause our other work to make it happen. Within the exhibit, we asked ourselves and now our viewers to pause time and consider something larger than our day-to-day selves and to ponder the deeper ideas of our existence.
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Belonging and Stillness
By: - Sep 06th, 2023In the morning, we play qigong for about 90 minutes to circulate the qi we had gathered the previous evening throughout our entire body. The Heavenly Horse Qigong routine is designed to work various areas of the body, and to prepare the body for whatever the day has in store for us.
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Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical
Dominique Morisseau's Second Musical About Black Song In The Late 20th Century at San Francisco's ACT
By: - Sep 08th, 2023After her Broadway success with "Ain't Too Proud," which also premiered in the Bay Area, Morisseau pays homage to "Soul Train," the syndicated TV show that became the Black community's "American Bandstand." The playwright also successfully integrates a warts-and-all biography of creator and longtime host, Don Cornelius.
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New Federal Theatre Opens Fall Season
Gala and Micki Grant Premiere Directed by Woodie King Jr.
By: - Sep 09th, 2023For over five decades, the New Federal Theatre has presented undiscovered talent like Denzel Washington, Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, S. Epatha Merkerson, Issa Rae, La Tanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Chadwick Boseman, and Morgan Freeman in their first stage appearances. They premiered For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide. Led. by Woodie King Jr. and now Elizabeth Van Dyke, the New Federal Theatre is a national treasure.
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Romeo and Juliet - Gounod's Opera
Fine Voices and Acting of Young Opera San Jose Cast Carry Opera
By: - Sep 11th, 2023"Romeo and Juliet" reigns as the touchstone of love stories centuries after its creation. But the play offers depth of meaning and cautions in many other social realms which contribute to its greatness. Adapted in many genres, Gounod's opera remains perhaps the most compelling and enduring realization. Its lush music and tight adherence to the Bard's work yield a timeless masterpiece.
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The Happiest Man on Earth by Mark St. Germain Returns
Back by Popular Demand at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Sep 16th, 2023By popular demand Barrington Stage Company brings back a world premiere by Mark St Germain on the stage that bears his name. The Happiest Man on Earth is a one-man show based on the holocaust memoir The Happiest Man on Earth published by Eddie Jaku when he was one hundred years old. It is profoundly performed by Kenneth Tigar.
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American Tenor Stephen Gould Dies at 61
His Performances Were Always A Treat
By: - Sep 20th, 2023Berkshire Fine Arts was fortunate to hear Stephen Gould sing Parsifal in Bayreuth two years ago. He retired from Bayreuth this summer when he was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
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