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Tracy Jones
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
By: - May 27th, 2023The new comedy "Tracy Jones" is running at the Ft. Lauderdale-area's Island City Stage as the last leg of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. "Tracy Jones," by Stephen Kaplan, is about a lonely woman who throws a party for every other woman in her state also named Tracy Jones. The play highlights loneliness and the human need for connection. .
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Let The Right One In
Intelligent Vampire Story With Interesting Twists But Inconsistent Tone.
By: - May 26th, 2023Rather than a simple blood-sucking horror, the play focuses largely on the relationship between Oskar, a bullied teenage boy from a broken home with a drunken mother and a largely neglectful father, and Eli, a new neighbor - who possesses an androgynous look; acts mostly like a girl; but insists that she’s not a girl, with no further explanation.
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Gypsy at Goodspeed
Solid But Not Outstanding Production
By: - May 26th, 2023This classic musical was originally written specifically for Ethel Merman, a huge Broadway star, by Jule Styne (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Arthur Laurents (book). It was loosely based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the stripper/actress/writer.
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Barrington Stage Company Gala 2023
Taylor Mac Hosts Night at the Kit Kat Club
By: - May 25th, 2023Hosted by MacArthur Genius-Award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist Taylor Mac, BSC’s Gala will transport attendees to the pre-war Berlin Kit Kat Club for an evening of pleasure featuring a cabaret lineup that will include burlesque artist Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Off Limits for Critics
No Coverage Allowed This Summer
By: - May 24th, 2023The once fabled Williamstown Theatre Festival, under interim artistic director Jenny Gersten, has cut back this season.
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Nor’easter: Paintings by Terry Ekasala, Rick Harlow, and Craig Stockwell
At The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield VT
By: - May 24th, 2023Most years, we in New England experience massive storms called Nor’easter’s. In the winter months these epic events usually stop everything for a few days while we dig our way out of snow drifts and wait for electricity to resume. As artists, we relish any reason to stop in our tracks, slow time, and experience stillness.
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Tan Dun Conducts TON
Rose Theater in New York Becomes an Aviary
By: - May 24th, 2023Tan Dun became famous for his Academy Award-winning track for Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger. A crossover classical composer who grew up in the country in China, and had not heard Beethoven until he was eighteen, he has made a career, merging East and West, using the conventions and tonalities of each culture. This merger is most effective in his operas, symphonies and concertos.
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David Auburn's Summer, 1976 on Broadway
Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht
By: - May 23rd, 2023Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht) are mothers of 5-year-old daughters; it is summer in Columbus, Ohio and both are connected to The Ohio State University.
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This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver
Stunning Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - May 21st, 2023As a painter Jeff Weaver is a man for all seasons. Some of the most engaging works are winter scenes. It’s the Gloucester that tourists never see. He creates meticulous paintings of weathered, storm battered, Gloucester commercial and residential landmarks. The works document vintage images of a working port and fishing community undergoing a change to an economy based on tourism and a glut of generic condos.
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(Not Entirely) Black and White, by Nelson and Fried
Show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
By: - May 20th, 2023This exhibition in North Adams ends on May 29 and so we also introduce the Old Stone Mill Center in Adams, MA, on Rt. 8, outside of downtown, direction to S. Adams. Both are worth a visit!
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New Publication from MFA
America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy
By: - May 19th, 2023In a thoughtful introduction, Gadsden makes her case for Modernism, and then hones in on five wonderfully talented but quite different trailblazing industrial designers: Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958), Donald Deskey (1894-1989), Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008), Harley J. Earl (1893-1969), and Belle Kogan (1902-2000).
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Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend
Vocalists Roberta Donnay and Alexis Cole
By: - May 18th, 2023The headline concerts include two striking vocalists: Roberta Donnay with the Prohibition Mob Band, and the first pairing of vocalist Alexis Cole with the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Free “jazz-al-fresco” takes place on Saturday, June 10, and there will be two jazz brunches.
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Cast For Summer Season
Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season,
By: - May 18th, 2023The Season opens May 26 with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, with David Gow and Zoya Martin, outdoors in The Roman Garden Theatre.
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Season Closer at Yale Rep Disappoints
the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson
By: - May 18th, 2023Yes, there are some funny moments and some touching ones, but overall, it is hard to become engaged with the characters. Except for Janice, they appear only in short scenes that allow for little depth of character.
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Casting for William Finn's New Brain
Barrington Stage Company in Association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - May 18th, 2023A New Brain features music and lyrics by BSC Associate Artist William Finn (BSC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Royal Family of Broadway), book by Finn and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner James Lapine (Broadway: Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George), and direction by BSC Associate Artist Joe Calarco (BSC: Waiting for Godot, Into the Woods, Ragtime), with music direction by Vadim Feichtner (BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway; Broadway: Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and choreography by Chloe O. Davis (Paradise Square).
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Blockbuster Planned for Cape Ann Museum
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - May 16th, 2023Edward Hopper (1882-1967) visited Cape Ann initially at the invitation of his friend and fellow painter, Leon Kroll (1884-1974), and produced his first oil painting outdoors in the United States during that trip. The Whitney Museum is lending Hopper’s five oils painted in Gloucester in 1912, including Briar (sic) Neck, Gloucester (1912); Tall Masts (1912); Italian Quarter (1912); and Gloucester Harbor (1912). The exhibition will mark the first time these works have ever been shown together on Cape Ann.
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Chad Smith Appointed President and CEO of BSO
Good News for Boston
By: - May 16th, 2023Chad Smith is a visionary credited with advancing the orchestral music tradition through cutting-edge programming and cultivating industry-defining partnerships. Smith brings strategic expertise, commitment to musical excellence, and a tested ability to expand audiences and generate revenue.
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Art Bath's De Gustation
Making Multi Media Art for the Masses
By: - May 15th, 2023Elizabeth Yilmaz and Mara Driscoll, two dancers from the Metropolitan Opera troupe, have created a performance series that’s as wonderful as it is unique. The final performance of the spring season, and the 9th produced by this team with associate Cesar Abreu, was in the spirit of a happening.
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Fat Ham by Pulitzer Winner James IJames
American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2023Fat Ham turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet upside down without minimizing the issues the original raises or the brilliance. The play by James IJames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is easy to see why.
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The Rembrandt
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - May 12th, 2023Rembrandt, the play at TheaterWorks Hartford through Sunday, May 14, is part meditation on art and part a very human exploration of love, dying and grieving
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Live from the Edge
At Long Wharf
By: - May 12th, 2023Live from the Edge by Universes has moments that will reach you emotionally. But the question remains, “What is it?” – Theater? A performance piece? A poetry slam? They describe themselves as a theater company, but I would describe it as being closer to a performance piece/poetry slam than theater.
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Young Picasso in Paris
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - May 12th, 2023Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death, Young Picasso in Paris highlights a significant work, Le Moulin de la Galette (ca. November 1900), from the Guggenheim collection. The famous dance hall—formerly a mill engaged in the production of a brown bread, or galette—had also been depicted by such avant-gardists as Ramón Casas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh.
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William Flynn: 50 Years 50 Drawings
Boston's HallSpace
By: - May 11th, 2023Flynn has made hundreds, perhaps thousands of drawings over the last 50 years. Choosing just 50 (really 61) drawings is nearly an impossible task. William Flynn is an artist that spends days drawing. He finds ways to express the beauty in mundane objects; an old baseball mitt, ski boots, a bicycle that was run over and flattened, cars at junkyards, an old arm chair, pop-up books, whirly-gigs.
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Boheme La La La at Opera Philadelphia
Helping Opera Live in the 21st Century
By: - May 11th, 2023Opera Philadelphia is ahead of the curve in keeping the operatic form alive and relevant. New operas and altered operas inevitably raise the question: What is opera? Music drives a story or an idea. That is at opera’s heart. La Boheme in Philadelphia meets the standard and then some.
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Champion at the Metropoitan Opera
Boxing, Gaydom, Blanchard all in the Mix
By: - May 09th, 2023The Metropolitan Opera’s heavily promoted Champion is concluding its run in New York. The first opera by Terrence Blanchard, which succeeds his Fire in My Bones at the Met, has a weaker score than its successor. One feels that Blanchard as composer of film scores (he is well-known as a colleague of Spike Lee), may have succumbed to the notion that music should lie under the visual track.
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