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  • King James by Rajiv Joseph at Barrington Stage Company

    Nothing But Net

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 17th, 2025

    King James by Rajiv Joseph is a lively and entertaining two-hander about fans, black and white, of Lebron James "The KIng" and the Cleveland Cavaliers. A regional sports market the CAVs hadn't won an NBA title in 50 years. In desperate need of cash Matt is willing to sell 19 courtside home game tickets pairs to Lebron's rookie season. Through four quarters the play, backlit by the career of James, tracks the complex relationship of eventual best friends.

  • Dishwasher Dialogues: Last Call

    If You Live Long Enough Life Ends

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Aug 17th, 2025

    I am not sure what old is anymore. Somewhere along the line it feels like we picked up an extra decade on our ancestors; those of us who have been lucky enough to keep our health. ‘Ninety is the new eighty’ sort of thing.

  • Christine McCarthy Worked Wonders

    Director of Procvincetown Art Association and Museum

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 15th, 2025

    After several years at the Institute of Contemporary Art,. at 35, Christine McCarthy was ready to move on. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum was in desperate need. Taking an initial 50% salary cut she took the job in 2001 only with a commitment from the board for change. She raised $8 million for expansion and renovation. Today PAAM is thriving under her leadership while the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape is no longer what it used to be.

  • Berkshire Author Steven Reed Nelson Publishes a Provocative Book

    Fire in the Wire: Electricity Empowers Human Evolution Beyond Homo Sapiens

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 15th, 2025

    Western Massachusetts author and entrepreneur, Steven Reed Nelson, is a free range thinker. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and layman in the field of science, he proposes that the term Homo sapiens be replaced by Homo electric. The introduction of electricity some 200 years ago has greatly impacted human evolution.

  • Patricia White 1948-2025

    A Guiding Light for Emerging Voices in Theater

    By: Susan Hall - Aug 15th, 2025

    Patricia White, the long-time company manager of Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre (NFT) and a well-known figure in Black Theatre, died August 10 after a brief illness. "Pat," as she was widely called, was well-known throughout the theater community as a director, mentor, producer, backstage coordinator, grant writer, box office manager and administrator. Her comprehensive understanding of the theatrical process helped shape countless productions and careers.

  • MASS MoCA Programming

    Through December

    By: MoCA - Aug 13th, 2025

    MASS MoCA announces new programming through December 2025, including the opening of exhibitions Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody and Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, concerts by Chuwi and Harold López-Nussa and plenty of opportunities to experience the museum for free including a celebration of Día de los Muertos, Open Studios, and an after-hours Family Night. FreshGrass | North Adams, the campus-wide festival of roots and bluegrass music, kicks it all off with the best in the genre.   

  • Kennedy Center Honorees

    A Matter of Taste or Lack Thereof

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 13th, 2025

    Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and English actor Michael Crawford will receive the Kennedy Center Honors at a Donald Trump-hosted ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8. He has hinted that the Kennedy Center should be renamed for him or at least to have co-billing.

  • Wozzeck

    A Fine Rendering by West Edge Opera of the Atonal Masterpiece

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 10th, 2025

    Downtrodden Franz Wozzeck suffers abuse from those in higher social classes and is betrayed by his common-law wife who has an affair with a Drum Major. West Edge depicts the drama of the underclass in concert with the dissonance of Alban Berg's music.

  • Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Artist and Activist at 84

    Protested MFA and Founded AAMARP at Northeastern University.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 09th, 2025

    Artist and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. ( (April 7, 1941 – June 9, 2025) was the foremost Boston African American artist of his generation. Implementing change he got things done. As Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the National Center for African American Artists and MFA adjunct curator put it "Dana shook the tree and we harvested the fruit."

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues: Museums

     The ladies of Wichita

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Aug 10th, 2025

    Then on a Sunday afternoon, you’ll be queuing for the Louvre, and you’ll start chatting with a lady from Wichita, Kansas, and she’ll ask you all sorts of questions. How do you know so much about Paris? Are you a professor or something like that? And I’ll say no I’m a bartender and a painter.

  • Heavenly Earth

    At Manship Artists Residency

    By: Manship - Aug 11th, 2025

    Curated by Manship Artists Sharon Bates and Donna Hassler, our biennial exhibition Heavenly Earth includes some 70 pieces installed throughout the Starfield landscape and inside the Manship Barn Studio. The thirteen juried artists have responded with a range of compelling works that reflect both the thematic prompt and the natural and cultural significance of this historic setting. Work by Laraine Cicchetti is also presented in her memory.

  • Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy

    Gloucester's Jane Deering Gallery

    By: Deering - Aug 11th, 2025

    Steps from the Cape Ann Museum, currently closed for renovation, is the Jane Deering Gallery. Opening on September 6 is Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy. A commonality is the studio as a place for solace and creativity deflecting the ongoing barrage of bad news.

  • The Federal Theatre Project as Play

    Hallie Flanagan and Subsidized Art

    By: Susan Hall - Aug 10th, 2025

    This is exactly the moment to remember a time when the federal government saw theatre not as a luxury, but as a public good—bringing professional productions to cities large and small across America.

  • Joan at Barrington Stage

    The Queen of Comedy Has the Last Laugh

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 07th, 2025

    Joan written by Daniel Goldstein is a compelling and well crafted play about one of the dominant comic geniuses of her generation. The complex story of Rivers is portrayed by four actors assuming multiple roles. As such it is an absorbing evening of drama. Where it falls short, ironically, is as comedy.

  • David and Jonathan

    Baroque Opera with a Modern Twist at West Edge

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 04th, 2025

    Charpentier's 1688 opera celebrates the close but star-crossed friendship of Biblical hero David with Jonathan, the son of Saul, Israel's first king. Saul's resistance to God's call to step down in favor of David results in a clash between Saul and David as well as Jonathan's conflict between love and duty. Without bending the text, the West Edge twist is that David and Jonathan's relationship is carnal.

  • The Power of Non-Forcing:

    Finding Wu Wei in a World That Pushes Back

    By: Cheng Tong - Aug 05th, 2025

    In a world that champions the hustle, the grind, and the relentless pursuit of goals, the ancient Daoist concept of Wu Wei can seem paradoxical, if not entirely counterintuitive. Often translated as “non-action” or “non-doing,” it’s easily mistaken for passivity or indolence.

  • Dream Up Theater Festival in NY

    Theater for a New City Presents

    By: Susan HAll - Aug 08th, 2025

    From August 24 to September 14, 2025, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, will present its thirteenth  Dream Up Festival, adventurous drama in New York. 

  • Barrington"s Mr. Finn Cabaret

    Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko

    By: BSC - Aug 08th, 2025

    Barrington Stage Company announces two dazzling evenings of Broadway talent at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, headlined by two of the Great White Way’s brightest stars: Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko.

  • The Knights at Clark Art Institute

    Two Free Concerts

    By: Clark - Aug 05th, 2025

    Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights return to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts for music lovers of all ages.

  •   A Room of Her Own: British Women at Clark Art Institute

    Epic Struggle of Emerging Artists Between the Wars

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 03rd, 2025

    Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which they used to further their artistic ambitions, including their rooms, homes, studios, art schools, clubs, and public exhibition venues.

  • Dolores

    World Premiere at West Edge Opera Honors Distinguished Labor Leader

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 03rd, 2025

    Dolores Huerta made her mark as Cesar Chavez's most trusted associate in the California grape pickers strike and boycott starting in 1965 that would result in major protections for agricultural workers. Independently, she led strikes and boycotts elsewhere, and she negotiated the contract that would end the unrest.

  • Dishwasher Dialogues: Switzerland

    Christmas in Paris

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Aug 03rd, 2025

    Ever since my boarding school days in Vienna and going on school skiing trips, mountains mean snow and snow means cold. I was cold those four years in Vienna. To this day give me the Mediterranean heat.

  • Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static

    Harvard University Art Museums

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 03rd, 2025

    In the 1960s I met Edna Andrade several times when she traveled from Philadelphia to bring new work to the East Hampton Gallery in New York. The gallery was know for Op Art which describes her work at the time. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static presents a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role of drawing as well as interdisciplinary exploration in her art and in modernist movements of the 20th century.

  • Le Comte Ory

    Rossini's Comedy Done Right at Merola

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 02nd, 2025

    The hedonistic and opportunistic Comte Ory takes advantage of men being away at the Crusades to pursue women. Knowing that the Comtesse Adele seeks spiritual guidance, his first gambit is to disguise as a hermit, but his own page gets in the way.

  • The Resurrection of Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum

    An Installation by Gabrielle Barzaghi & Peter Littlefield

    By: CAM - Jul 31st, 2025

    A radio play, The Beginning of the End (of Judy Rhines) by Peter Littlefield, accompanies the installation. The play is a mystery set in the 1940s. Judy Rhines is a secretary, until one day, losing her job and just about everything else, she learns the ways of a witch