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Rotterdam
At Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Feb 04th, 2023"Rotterdam" is an emotionally-rich play receiving a strong production at Island City Stage. The production runs through Feb. 19 at the company in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. "Rotterdam" opens Island City Stage's 2022-23 season.
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Cashed Out
World Premiere About Life on the Reservation and Addiction
By: - Feb 03rd, 2023“Cashed Out” takes place on the Gila River Reservation in southern Arizona, home to the Pima tribe, traditionally noted for their finely woven baskets – tightly twined bowls with crisp angular patterns. While the compelling narrative gives interesting insights into the culture of the native people, universal themes abound – the power of love in family and friendship; internal struggle and external conflict; forgiveness and redemption. The production is striking and highly appealing.
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Paradise Blue
Urban Renewal and Human Destruction in 1950s Detroit.
By: - Feb 04th, 2023Dominique Morisseau has written a sometimes funny but always tense noirish drama which Director Dawn Monique Williams plumbs for all its nuance. The actors find the essence of each character and deliver a gripping entertainment.
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Amore, at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Lighter Fare for Valentine's Day
By: - Feb 06th, 2023Valentines Day is drawing near and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, seems to bow to this occasion with its new production 'Amore' under the direction of Aram Tafreshian.
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Berkshire Opera Announces Season
Exciting Prospects
By: - Feb 07th, 2023The "innovative, clever and thoroughly professional" BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2023 season in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA, and for the first time in New York City. The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, BOF produces opera at the highest level under the vision of esteemed co-founders Brian Garman (Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production). The festival has "destination" status. Others write: "No longer need we confine our opera-going to HD films—now we have the highest quality productions and performers in our own backyard."
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Everest: An Immersive Experience (Opera)
Innovative Format for a Compelling Work from Opera Parallèle
By: - Feb 07th, 2023For all of human history and eons before, Mount Everest has stood as steady as a rock – literally. In its eight years, the opera “Everest: An Immersive Experience” has had three very different realizations, even though under the baton of Nicole Paiement for each version. The genesis of the opera’s narrative is a real-life tragedy about three members on an Everest expedition in 1996, two of whom never came back.
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The Peabody Essex Museum
Significant Donation by James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes
By: - Feb 07th, 2023The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces that longtime museum supporters James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes have made a significant donation to enhance PEM’s 120,000-square-foot Collection Center in Rowley, Massachusetts.
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Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson Star in Beckett
By: - Feb 10th, 2023Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is enjoying a must-see run at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Starring Bill Irwin, the clown and Beckett aficionado, as Clov and John Douglas Thompson as Hamm, here uncharacteristically for Thompson, the “insider.” He is bound to a wheelchair, blind and dependent on painkillers, yet the clear force of the moment. Clov lurches around him.
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Erica H. Adams and Marjorie Minkin Go Fed
Concurrent Solo Exhibits in Boston's Moakley Courthouse
By: - Feb 13th, 2023Concurrent solo exhibits at Boston's Moakley Courthouse, present new abstract watercolors by Erica H. Adams and abstract Lexan wall reliefs by Marjorie Minkin that share transparency, color-light and layers that reveal content.
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Gloucester Stage Presents Annisquam
A Dark Psychological Night of Theater
By: - Feb 13th, 2023For Rockport psychologist and playwright, Lawrence Hennessy, art imitates life in his new play Annisquam. Is the playwright moonlighting as a shrink or the other way around? Tickets for the three performances are available at Gloucester Stage.
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New York Festival of Song Celebrates Steven Blier
Anniversary Presents Stellar Singers
By: - Feb 13th, 2023New York Festival of Song Presents Amor: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Steven Blier's Professional Debut at Kaufman Music Center on February 15, 2023
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Havel's Audience at LaMama
Czech Marionette Theater Adds Puppets to Wild Brew
By: - Feb 14th, 2023Vaclav Havel’s Audience circulated widely in a sanitized form during the Soviet occupation of his country after the Second World War. During the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968, Havel provided a narrative of the invasion on Radio Free Czechoslovakia and was banned from his work in the theater. To survive, he took a job in the Kraknos brewery in Trufnov. This is the setting of Audience.
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Stephen R. Lawson, 73 of Williamstown
Founded Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Stephen R. Lawson, 73, a longtime resident of Williamstown died on February 7, 2023, of natural causes. In varying capacities he was an associate of the Williamstown Theatre Festival for some five decades. For 13 years he curated the Williamstown Film Festival which was produced at Images Cinema and MASS MoCA.
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Ivanov, at the Berliner Ensemble, Germany
By Anton Chekhov
By: - Feb 17th, 2023"Ivanov" was Anton Chekhov's first play. It opened in 1887 and had been modified several times by the writer/playwright himself, vascillating between comedy and tragedy.
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Leo Reich Arrives in New York
Hot Comic in "Literally Who Cares"
By: - Feb 20th, 2023Leo Reich has arrived at the Greenwich House Theater in New York fresh from triumphs on the London stage and Edinburgh Fringe. Literally Who Cares? is a show about Reich. He is a Gen Zer, a graduate of Footlights at Cambridge where everyone who’s anyone begins their career.
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42nd Street
2023 Broadway at LPAC Season in South Florida
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Broadway at LPAC presents an invigorating "42nd Street" in South Florida. The professional production runs through March 5. Lauderhill is near Ft. Lauderdale.
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Queen of Basel at TheaterWorks Hartford
Updates Stringberg's Miss Julie
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Miss Julie by the Nobel laureate playwright August Strindberg was initially set on Midsummer’s eve on an estate in 19th century Sweden. Could it work set in 21st-century America? Playwright Hilary Bettis’ clever adaptation shows that it can.
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Die Rache der Fledermaus, at the Komische Oper, Berlin
The Revenge of the Bat
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss, from 1874, is one of the most well known light operas the world over. Known for its indulgence into song and dance, the audience is at first surprised to find an almost empty stage with a five member musical ensemble to play all the tunes....
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Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis
At Shakespeare & Company
By: - Feb 26th, 2023What a thrill it is to bring NEA Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis to the Berkshires, as guest soloist with the UMass Jazz Ensemble 1. A scion of New Orleans’ fabled music family, Delfeayo Marsalis’ appearance in the March 11 concert (Shakespeare & Co., Lenox) marks the first time that he has appeared with the UMass big band.
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Lorraine Hansberry at BAM
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Revived
By: - Feb 28th, 2023The Brooklyn Academy of Music is mounting Lorraine Hansberry’s second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s window at the Harvey Theater. Anne Kauffman, who directed the work at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in 2016, directs Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.
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Visionary Architecture on Film
Free Movies at the Clark
By: - Mar 02nd, 2023A five-part Visionary Architecture on Film series debuts at the Clark Art Institute on select Thursdays this spring. Presented in connection with the Clark’s exhibition Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch, this film series explores themes related to Goesch’s life and work in early twentieth-century Germany.
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Louis Risoli and Peter Vanderwaker
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Mar 04th, 2023Following the work over a number of decades, Louis Risoli has been among Boston’s foremost artists. He is long overdue for a museum restrospective. His work is on view in March at Boston's Gallery Naga which has represented him for many years.
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Clarkson’s Farm
Outlandish Cockup on Amazon Prime
By: - Mar 05th, 2023British media star Jeremy Carson is best known for hit shows like Top Gear and Grand Tour. He is also a best selling author. He has sunk a ton of loot and life savings into a thousand acre Diddly Squat Farm in Britain's bucolic Cotswold. His pratfalls, bone headed decisions, and mishegoss are the plot line for the hit series Carson's Farm now in its second season on Amazon Prime.
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Bill Finn Musical A New Brain
Co-Production Barrington Stage and Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Mar 07th, 2023“Bill Finn and James Lapine’s A New Brain has long been deserving of rediscovery, so it is a wonderful opportunity for our theatres to join forces for the first time to present it for our audiences this summer,” commented BSC Artistic Director Alan Paul and WTF Interim Artistic Director Jenny Gersten, in a joint statement.
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Guggenheim Museum Acquisitons
Emphasis on Diversity
By: - Mar 08th, 2023In 2022 the Guggenheim acquired over 60 works by more than 40 artists, of whom 75% are new to its collection. The works span from the 1960s to the present day and augment the museum’s holdings of some of the world’s most influential artists.
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