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Living a Daoist Life In Today's World
Fall Course Offering
By: - Aug 14th, 2023This fall, beginning after Labor Day, I will be offering a new course entitled "Living a Daoist Life In Today's World." The course will be 20 classes long and will include study of the Dao de Ching, The Law Of The Heart, and The 49 Barriers To Spiritual Growth.
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet, at Jacob’s Pillow
A Most Powerful Ballet Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2023Perhaps, it’s not accidental that 'Complexions' followed the 'Hip Hop Festival.'The performance started with an excerpt of 'Hissy Fits, 2006,' to ongoing very loud percussion, sounding like drum beats to, as per program, J.S. Bach music. And the music mostly continued at a high decimal, just like hip hop.
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Here You Come Again
Goodspeed’s Terris Theater in Chester
By: - Aug 19th, 2023Entering Goodspeed’s Terris Theater in Chester to see Here You Come Again, you view a cluttered living space with decorations for multiple holidays, a disco ball, things hanging from the ceiling, etc. Is this a hoarding situation?
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Here Lies Love on Broadway
Concept, Music, and Lyrics by David Byrne
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023Once the show actually began, I was engaged. While it is just making its Broadway debut, Here Lies Love, with concept, music, and lyrics by David Byrne, music by Fatboy Slim, and additional music by Tom Gandey and Jose Luis Pardo, began as a concept album in 2010. From there, it ran at off-Broadway’s Public Theater (2013, 2014-15) and London (2014-15), both times garnering multiple awards.
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Compagnie Käfig at Jacob’s Pillow
Final Company in Residence, 2023 Season
By: - Aug 29th, 2023For PIXEL, by Compagnie Käfig, today based near Lyon, France, ten male Hip Hop dancers, French style, a woman contortionist, a roller-skater, small robots carrying tiny lights, and a huge metal hoop shared and interacted on stage with highly sophisticated projections, music, and sounds.
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Adam Tendler and Cage at the Crypt
Andrew Ousley's Death Defying Death of Classical
By: - Sep 08th, 2023Leave it to the brilliant impresario Andrew Ousley and his music series, Death of Classical, to bring us an incredible and surprising evening of John Cage music. Before Cage moved on to the concepts of indeterminacy and chance, he composed more conventionally arced works for the prepared piano, in which screws were systematically and specifically applied to some strings in a grand piano, Cage clearly began in one place and ended up in another. Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano is a deliberate whole.
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Crowns
An Uplifting Celebration of African-American Women and Hats They Wear To Church
By: - Sep 14th, 2023Hats are an integral part of the African-American woman's church attendance. Playwright Regina Taylor celebrates not only hats but the women that wear them - their fortitude, their triumphs, and their tragedies. Animated vignettes and a gospel dominated song book provide for a rousing entertainment.
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Ellen Shattuck Pierce Taking Place
Boston's Hall Space
By: - Sep 15th, 2023Hall Space presents Ellen Shattuck PIerce "Taking Place." It's a lively exhibition of relief and hand colored laser prints.
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The Addams Family
A Fun Look At The Ghoulish Family
By: - Sep 16th, 2023Horrors! Guess who's coming to dinner. Gomez and Morticia's daughter Wednesday has fallen in love and wants to marry a "normal" young man. She has even invited him and his family over for a meal. What can be done to stop such a fearsome turn of events?
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Bald Sisters
A Clash of Cultural and Family Values.
By: - Sep 19th, 2023One Cambodian-American sister has married a Christian pastor and has remained in Dallas, where the mother had resettled the family. The younger sister had moved to New York City, rejecting some of the family's values, but reconnecting with Buddhism. When their mother dies, the sisters face conflicts that extend well beyond dealing with death rites.
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Dopplegangers at the Park Avenue Armory
Jonas Kaufman and Helmut Deutsch Double Our Pleasure
By: - Sep 28th, 2023I like to attend an event without reading the build-up. This gives me a chance to respond viscerally. Every event at the Park Avenue Armory is tasteful. Pierre Audi, the artistic director, provides this. He is unique in New York.
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Nollywood Dreams
A Riotous Look at Making It in the Nigerian Film Industry
By: - Oct 06th, 2023Set in Lagos in the ‘90s, the story centers on a young woman who hopes to break into show business by responding to an open audition for the lead in a movie. Many universal issues arise, but with the addition of West African context and characters.
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Made in Vermont Series
By: - Oct 10th, 2023The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is returning to Bellows Falls on Sunday, November 5, with a special matinee at the Bellows Falls Opera House. The performance is part of the VSO’s 2023 “Made in Vermont Series;” shows highlighting guest artists from the Green Mountain State’s vibrant indie, folk, and rock scene.
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Death of a Salesman
Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida
By: - Apr 07th, 2024Palm Beach Dramaworks delivers an award-worthy production of "Death of a Salesman." The company's mounting of Arthur Miller's masterpiece runs through April 20.
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Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix
Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur
By: - Jul 22nd, 2022Julia Bullock has made a big opera career outside conventional wisdom. At the Aix Festival in Provence this year she sang Olivier Messiaen's Harawi, a challenging work to which she brings unusual insights.
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The Nose at the Munich Opera
Russian Dissident Kirill Serebrennikov
By: - Jul 21st, 2022Kirill Serebrennikov, the brilliant Russian director, brought The Nose to Munich via Zoom. He is detained by the Russian government in Moscow. The production is superb.
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Nan and the Lower Body by Jessica Dickey
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Jul 18th, 2022The play opens with Dr. Pap addressing a classroom – the audience. The content of the lecture is unimportant, yet those brief moments absolutely hook the viewer. There is no waiting to get involved with the story line.
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La Belle et la Bête by Philip Glass
Opera Adapted from Cocteau
By: - Jul 15th, 2022n Philip Glass’s adaptation of a trilogy of Cocteau films to opera (the others being “Orphée” and “Les Enfants Terribles,” both previously produced by Opera Parallèle), the composer saved his most imaginative treatment for this most uncommon love story.
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Jeremy Denk and Maria Wloszczowska
The 92nd Street Y Presents Bach
By: - Jul 09th, 2022Jeremy Denk is a world class pianist and writer. Recently he performed Bach violin sonatas with a magnificent young violinist, Maria Wloszczowska at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York.
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Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group
Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams
By: - Jul 02nd, 2022Covid delayed the opening of Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group by two years. It was worth the wait with a tasty buffet dinner on opening night at Berkshire Art Museum in downtown North Adams. The former church houses the Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation, Most of the church displays a permanent installation of his work. The three levels of the tower galleries has a lively display of works by diners and artists.
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Eva Luna Dramatized at Repertorio Espanol
Storytelling Honored on Stage
By: - Jun 30th, 2022Repertorio Espanol presents big theater in a compact space. Productions are often not only intense but sprawling in their content. The trick of compacting large stories in a small space is one of the company’s specialties. Eva Luna, Caridad Svich’s apt dramatization of Isabel Allende's big third novel, gives ample opportunity to display these skills.
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Bousquet Jazz Festival
Thursday, June 30
By: - Jun 27th, 2022First annual Bousquet Fazz Festival is free. Thursday June 30 at the base of Bousquet Ski slopes in Pittsfield.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
A Production by GableStage Near Miami
By: - Jun 21st, 2022A powerful production of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is running through June 26 at GableStage in Coral Gables (suburban Miami). In "The Year of Magical Thinking," author and journalist Joan Didion recounts the year following her husband's sudden death. The basis for the play adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is the award-winning memoir by Joan Didion.
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Ringo to Starr at Tanglewood Afterall
The tour Now Begins September 5
By: - Jun 16th, 2022Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band - Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter - revealed the revised itinerary for their September tour, includes all 12 of the dates that they recently had to postpone. The tour now begins September 5 at Tanglewood, in Lenox, MA and concludes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 20.
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