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The Dignity Circle
The Grift Is On
By: - Jul 05th, 2023Opening with the alluring pitch “How would you like to receive $40,000 with no strings attached?” Angela lures her prey into her seductive scheme. But one of the devices of the Circle is wearing masks, which suggests that there is indeed something hidden beneath the surface.
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A Chorus Line
Character Laid Bare in the Pursuit of Dreams.
By: - Jul 06th, 2023On Broadway and in Hollywood, the backstage genre endures and endears like few others. In the history of American entertainment, no backstage montage has proven more heart wrenching and more diverse in its themes explored and its characters examined than “A Chorus Line.”
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Humane Ecology: Eight Positions
Clark Art Institute
By: - Jul 07th, 2023Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, opening July 15, 2023 at the Clark Art Institute, features a group of eight contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of ecological relationships. The exhibition, which includes sculpture, sound installation, video, and plantings, is presented in indoor and outdoor spaces at the Clark
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Les Misérables
A Powerful Indictment of Justice in an Unjust Society
By: - Jul 08th, 2023Jean Valjean spends his adult life paying for having stolen a morsel of bread for his sister. Even after a long prison sentence, he finds himself needing to hide and lie to avoid the relentless Inspector Javert, who obsesses over making Valjean pay endlessly for his petty crime.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
By: - Jul 12th, 2023For nearly three decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has thrilled audiences around the globe with its full-throttle, high-intensity performances on five continents and in over 20 countries, committed to its mission of “bringing unity to the world one dance at a time.” The diverse and inclusive company is made up of dancers “who blur lines and boundaries and exude an innate passion” (The Guardian). With their programs set to music from Kendrick Lamar, David Bowie, Metallica, and Lenny Kravitz, the company reinvents ballet with a mix of methods, styles, and cultures that engages and delights.
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Music at Williams College
Schedule for 2003 to 2004
By: - Jul 17th, 2023Williams College presents many free concerts during the academic year. This is the schedule of upcoming events.
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Artist and Rastafarian Peter Dudek
Publishing a Limited Edition Book
By: - Jul 18th, 2023For the past 15 years artist Peter Dudek has been a part of a team of three that manage Bascom Lodge on Mount Greylock. Prior to that, with Maggie Mailer, he managed Storefront Artists Project in Pittsfield. It brought life to the moribund downtown. Recently we met to discuss a limited edition facsimile of a 1951 Met catalogue American Sculpture.
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Cruzar la Cara de la Luna: A Mariachi Opera
Mariachi Music Makes it to the Opera House
By: - Jul 25th, 2023The story is about Laurentino, a man in New York who immigrated from Mexico half a century before. On his deathbed, he reveals an undisclosed past to his family. He had a first wife in Mexico who died in the crossing and a son who returned to his native land. A poignant metaphor of the butterfly recurs in the music and conversation. When the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis and moves on from its life as a caterpillar, it never returns to the same location, reenacting life’s transformation in a new land. It is only the descendants that circle back to the homeland of earlier generations.
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Bach by Bike in Leipzig
A Trio Stops in the Summersaal
By: - Jul 31st, 2023An enthusiastic cyclist, violinist Marieke Neumann was the developer of the “Bach Bicycle Route” in central Germany, featuring guided tours to important locations from the composer’s life. Mezzo-soprano Anna-Luise Oppelt joins her for Bach by Bike to visit towns and cities where Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked.
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Eric Gauthier at Jacob's Pillow
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
By: - Aug 01st, 2023Now 47, the French Canadian dancer, artistic director, and choreographer Eric Gauthier joined Stuttgart Ballet in 1996, where he rose to the rank of soloist. Initially with six dancers, in 2007 he founded Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
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At the Precipice
Design Museum of Chicago
By: - Aug 04th, 2023The beauty of art and the tragedy of the climate crisis live side by side in a stunning new exhibit at the Design Museum of Chicago. Some 30 pieces ranging in size from framed art to wall-length tell the story of why we are “At the Precipice” in this record-breaking hot and stormy summer of 2023.
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Margaret Swan Flow
Ar Boston Sculptors
By: - Aug 04th, 2023Margaret Swan’s solo exhibition Flow investigates the duality of free-flowing forms versus structures of containment, choreographing an elegant dance between the two. The fluid, curving planes of her polychrome aluminum sculpture suggest movement, while contrasting latticed frameworks create tension and a sense of restraint. The final effect is that of water passing through nets or vessels—triumphantly finding its own way.
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Rusalka
Fine Performances Benefit This Appealing Opera
By: - Aug 06th, 2023“Rusalka” ranks as Dvorák’s most popular opera and with good reason. Applying Wagnerian principles with leitmotifs and in sung-through fashion, it also draws from Czech folk music. The thoroughly romantic, luxuriant music possesses extractable set pieces of compelling melody and emotion. The fairy tale story draws on several sources, mixing light and dark, with a resulting dramatic outcome.
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Hip Hop Across The Pillow at Jacobs Pillow
A Festival inside the 2023 Summer Dance Festival
By: - Aug 07th, 2023Hip Hop Across The Pillow was curated by Melanie George and Ali Rosa-Salas. We were fortunate enough to catch the very last totally engrossing performance yesterday.
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Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
Fall Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Aug 14th, 2023Strong Women in Renaissance Italy features approximately 100 works of art—sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, illustrated books and prints—largely drawn from the MFA’s collection, alongside eight key loans from the British Library, the Dayton Art Institute, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, the Boston Athenaeum and a private collection. Women became artists, writers, poets, musicians and singers. They acted as patrons and commissioned works of art.
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Mahabharata
A Highly Abbreviated Version of the Longest Poem Ever Written
By: - Aug 14th, 2023The Mahabharata is regarded by many to be the fifth veda, or sacred Hindu religious text. Appropriately, the storyteller in this production, J Jha, is transgender, as the stories are told from both male and female perspectives, and sexual ambiguity plays an appreciable role. Jha gives an inspired solo performance in delivering a narrative that centers on a war between competing bands of cousins fighting for control of BCE Bharat, which would become India.
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Berkshire Art Center’s 2023 Artists-In-Residence
Exhibitions and Talks by Noah Beauregard and Kelly Potter
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Berkshire Art Center’s 2023 Artists-In-Residence, Noah Beauregard and Kelly Potter, are celebrating the end of their residencies this summer with virtual artist talks and in-person exhibition openings at The Red Lion Inn and Chesterwood.
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A Visit to Tippet Rise, Part I
Local is the Future of Music and Art
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Tippet Rise is the passionate expression of Cathy Halstead, a painter, and Peter Halstead, a polymath (poet, pianist, photographer, and novelist) who met when they were very young and have lived like two peas in a pod ever since. Having assembled about 12,500 acres in southern Montana not far from Yellowstone National Park, they have taken cues from the natural surroundings to build concert halls, place site-specific architecture and sculptures and produce an annual summer music festival which is a model for the future.
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Remembering Dennis Hollingsworth
About a Comment
By: - Aug 25th, 2023I have no idea what happened. I feel fortunate to have heard his opinions on the art world which were for the most part conservative in intent. He was commenting on Twitter on the ongoing struggle in Ukraine understanding the manipulation of the American Neo-Cons in perpetuating it. He had just started to take and interest in the notion of Monadology as it might apply to his work. Again, the irreducible
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A New Brain a Smash at Barrington Stage
Revival of Bill Finn and James Lapine Musical
By: - Aug 25th, 2023Absorbing, insightful, fun and hilarious are dumbfounding but accurate terms to describe the William Finn and James Lapine musical A New Brain being revised at Barrington Stage Company. It's a musical about neurosurgery.
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A Visit to Tippet Rise. Part II
A Special Staff for a Special Place
By: - Aug 27th, 2023Pete Hinmon and Lindsey Hinmon are Co-Directors of Tippet Rise Art Center. They are warm and deeply thoughtful, qualities you find in everyone at this working ranch. Qualities clearly treasured by the Halsteads, the couple creating this special art venue. The Halsteads have a knack for picking people.
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Jane Hudson Cuts the Deck
Tarot on the Go
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023In late 2019 I made a piece (later to become The Chariot) and a friend suggested that I pursue a series based on the Tarot. Up to that point I had not worked in series, allowing myself to explore developing imagery as it occurred to me. Of course when Covid hit, I was faced with isolation and focused studio time, so the project took shape then.
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Tanz im August in Berlin
With 19 World-Wide Dance Companies
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023Tanz im Augus is the Berlin showcase for contemporary international dance. Organized, as usually, by the theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).
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WBCN Legend Charles Laquidara
Pairs With Matt Siegel for Benefit Event
By: - Sep 07th, 2023“An Afternoon with Charles Laquidara & Matt Siegel,” moderated by Joyce Kulhawik, is a fundraiser for the Paul “Tank” Sferruzza Scholarship Fund. The late Sferruzza was a sports director at WBCN and WZLX. The event is at City Winery Saturday, September 9.
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Five Guys Named Moe
MNM Theatre Company in South Florida
By: - Sep 12th, 2023MNM Theatre Company in West Palm Beach is presenting a vibrant production of the acclaimed musical revue, "Five Guys Named Moe." The production runs through Sept. 24 at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. In the show, through music, the titular characters hope to change the life of a drunken man whose wife has left him.
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