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End of The Royal Family of Broadway
NY Times Review Spikes Barrington Stage Production
By: - Jul 06th, 2018The Barrington Stage world premiere of the musical Royal Family of Broadway has earned mostly positive reviews. It has been treated as a work in progress potentially bound for Broadway. The team assembled for this production have been there before. Because of a devastating review by Jesse Green in the New York Times that may not happen. While Green is an established, and well qualified critic, is it the role of the Times to nip in the bud regional productions being developed for a run in New York?
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Van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic
A Beethoven Prelude to Action
By: - Jul 05th, 2018With all the secrecy that surrounds the arrival of a new music director for America's oldest orchestra, one must rely on live performances and recorded documentation to assess such a relationship. Happily, such documentation arrived earlier this year in the form of a DeccaGold recording of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, made by the New York Philharmonic under the aegis of its new boss, Jaap van Zweden.
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James Taylor Is Alive And Kicking
Another July 4th At Tanglewood
By: - Jul 05th, 2018The traditional James Taylor July 4th Concert was like a high school reunion. Fans returned to see JT and his All-Star Band at Tanglewood. Yet again he was knee high on the Fourth of July and as corny as Kansas in August.
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Support Group for Men at Goodman Theatre,
By Melancholic Ellen Fairey
By: - Jul 05th, 2018For 95 minutes, Ellen Fairey explores current social issues and angst from gender identity to aging and loneliness, cultural appropriation, men in crisis and the #metoo movement. This takes place in mid-2017 in a second-floor Wrigleyville apartment above an alley where all sorts of shit happens.
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Coming Back Like a Song at Berkshire Theatre Group
World Premiere of Juke Box Musical
By: - Jul 04th, 2018It's Christmas Eve at the NY apartment of Irving Berlin. He is joined by fellow masters of the Great American Songbook Jimmy Van Heusen and Harold Arlen. With just a piano we get 35 of their songs in Berkshire Theatre Group''s world premiere of Coming Back Like a Song by Lee Kalcheim,
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Objects of Desire at Eclipse Mill Gallery
Larry Alice and Joan Kiley Paired In Evocative Exhibition
By: - Jul 03rd, 2018The special exhibition Objects of Desire pairs whimsical narrative paintings by Joan Kiley with relief sculpture and polychromed assemblages by Larry Alice. There is a confluence and empathy of fantasy and the surreal in work that will be on view in the Eclipse Mill, 243 Union Street, from Friday, June 29 through Sunday, July 29. A receptiom will be held on Friday, July 6.
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The Bennington Mural Project
Union Street Mural Unveiled
By: - Jul 03rd, 2018In downtown Bennington, a new mural lets local artists shine and brings the community together.
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Knot an Opera by Constantin Basica
Freshly Squeezed Opera Provokes
By: - Jul 03rd, 2018Knot an Opera is an amusing and provocative presentation by Freshly Squeezed Opera. The company is committed to genre pushing new works of the highest caliber that explore the depths of the opera form.
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The Big D in South Florida
World Premiere of Comic-Drama near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jul 03rd, 2018The Big D has a dual personality as a play, with some of the material risque and lively, while other moments are tender and tragic. Michael Mizerany's new work is having its world premiere at Wilton Manor's Abyss Theater. Prolific theater artist Ronnie Larsen is directing the play, featuring some strong acting.
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World Premiere of Tilikum by Kristiana Rae Colón
Whale of a Tale at Sideshow Theatre Company
By: - Jul 02nd, 2018“Tilikum, the infamous SeaWorld killer whale, has died.” That was the headline in the Orlando Sentinel on January 6, 2017. Sideshow Theatre’s world premiere production of Tilikum takes the story of that sea creature and creates a poetic, percussive fantasy that demands that we pay attention to a range of social justice issues.
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The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp
Williamstown Theatre Festival PremieresTwo Plays
By: - Jul 01st, 2018The Williamstown Theatre Festival started its 2018 season with two new plays on June 26/27, both billed as World Premieres. 'The Closet,' a comedy or farce, is presented on the main stage and 'The Sound Inside,' a two person drama, fills Nikos Stage. Mary-Louise Parker plays the protagonist, Bella Baird, and Will Hochman is Christopher Dunn, her 'curious' student.
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The Closet By Douglas Carter Beane
PC Gay Themed Satire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 01st, 2018PC or not to be was the question in a world premiere comedy The Closet by Douglas Carter Beane at Williamstrown Theatre Festival. It stars Broadway's Matthew Broderick in his first WTF appearance. He is backed by renowned WTF veterans Jessica Hecht and Brooks Ashmanskas. There was also a breakout performance by Ann Harada.
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Everyone's Fine with Viriginia Woolf
Kate Scelsa Re-constructs Martha at Elevator Repair Service
By: - Jun 30th, 2018Elevator Repair Service is presenting Kate Scelsa's Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf. This production at the Abrons Art Center is a re-construction of Martha in Edward Albee's play. Director and company founder John Collins takes us seamlessly back into the world of Albee, Tennessee Williams and Samuel Beckett to deliver an hilarious and scathing 21st century production.
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Two Mile Hollow's Rolling World Premiere
At Potrero Stage in San Francisco
By: - Jun 30th, 2018The producing theater company Ferocious Lotus and playwright Leah Nanako Winkler are on the same wavelength in promoting Asian inclusion in theater. Although the narrative of Two Mile Hollow is about a white family, the pivotal character is Asian played by an Asian, and actors with Asian or Pacific Islanders blood play all of the white roles as well. So add one more brick to the building of ethnic inclusion in the arts.
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Tempest at San Diego's Old Gold Theater
Summer Shakespeare Festival
By: - Jun 30th, 2018The Old Globe’s prescient Erna Finci Artiti Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, himself a Shakespeare scholar, understands how the hidden magic in Shakespeare’s plays can still inspire and entertain. His tapping of Irish director Joe Dowling to helm the technically challenging Old Globe production of “The Tempest,” is both a stroke of genius and of timing. Dowling ran the famous Guthrie Theatre of Minneapolis for 20 years. Kate Burton leads as Prospera.
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Pilobolus at Jacob’s Pillow
Taking Nature Back Inside
By: - Jun 29th, 2018Recalling seeing Pilobolus over the years one readily recognized its DNA but with the realization of how it has evolved and remained fresh. Just when you think that you know what Pilobolus is about, with a tool kit and vetted skill set, they do something different. You are challenged to revise and update assumptions as an audience or critic.
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night
O'Neill at Stratford Shakespeare Festival
By: - Jun 29th, 2018I’m not sure that Canadian audiences share the idolatry that Americans have for O’Neill. Several Canadian critics gave this performance muted approval and a suggestion that O’Neill is a trifle unconvincing and overdone in this play’s insistent hopelessness.
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Van, Van the Used Up Man
Berkshire Museum Director Shields Retires
By: - Jun 28th, 2018In a tersely worded press release, offering no explanation, the Berkshire Museum announces parting ways with its controversial director, Van Shields. He was hired in 2011 and presided over the decline and potential extincton of the museum. His strategy to sell key works from the permanent collection and launch his New Vision was met with protest and global media attention. Some will praise him for "saving" the museum and endowing its future. For others he leaves behind a pariah shunned by other museums. His departure and potenial board restructuring are essential as the museum mends fences and fine tunes drastic plans for renovations and gimmicky reinstallatons.
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Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art
Making the city of Boston An Art City
By: - Jun 27th, 2018Now+There is the lineal descendant of the Urban Arts Institute. Its mission has expanded to reinforce social justice and environmental concerns with community-involved public art projects. Led by the creative and energetic Kate Gilbert, it works on a variety projects throughout the City of Boston.
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The Finger Lakes, Gateway To American Wines
Riesling Rules
By: - Jun 26th, 2018Only hours away from millions of people, the Finger Lakes, located in central New York state, is home to a large wine making population. With over one hundred twenty vineyards, located on or near one of the eleven lakes, the Finger Lakes 'cold climate' wine culture thrives year round, focusing on the Riesling varietal.
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Denver's Museo de las Americas
Celebrating Era of Pachucos y Sirenas
By: - Jun 26th, 2018Museo de las Americas, begun in 1992 as one room in a cabinet shop, now occupies a 12,000 sq. ft. building in the heart of Denver's Santa Fe Art District.
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Debra Jo Rupp Takes the Cake
Timely Comic Drama by Bekah Brunstetter
By: - Jun 25th, 2018The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter is a ripped from the headlines topical drama at Barrington Stage. While addressing vendors refusing to provide services for gay marriages it does so with a comedic touch. As Della, the conflicted specialty baker, the brilliant Debra Jo Rupp has never been more hilarious.
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An Afternoon With Audra McDonald
Perfection at Tanglewood
By: - Jun 25th, 2018A special concert with an unparalleled talent at her peak. Audra McDonald captivated the audience at Tanglewood with her voice, charm, wit and humor. A mother, storyteller and musical ambassador, McDonald prevailed at the nearly full house in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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Music Man at Canada's Stratford Festival
Not Just Shakespeare in Ontario
By: - Jun 25th, 2018When the performance is as admirably enjoyable as this one is, even a “Music Man” without a commanding Music Man is worth making a real effort to see.
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ICA Launches Watershed in East Boston
Expansion Shuttles Across the Harbor
By: - Jun 25th, 2018When the ICA opened its new home on the edge of Boston Harbor its fatal flaw was immediately obvious. While praised for dramatic design with development of surrounding towers it was soon hemmed in with no space for expansion. In a bold move it has now reached across the harbor to fast changing East Boston. A former factory has been reconfigured as Watershed. It combines generous exhibiton space with opportunities for meetings, education, and community programming. A long time community activist Frank Conte covers the launch which opens with free admission on July 4.
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