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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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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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Whitney Museum Workers
Negotiate First Union Contract
By: - Mar 06th, 2023After more than a year of bargaining, the Whitney Museum Union of Local 2110 UAW have reached a tentative agreement with the Museum on a first union contract. Union members are in the process of voting on the contract.
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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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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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Berkshire Theatre Group
Summer 2023
By: - Mar 04th, 2023The hit Broadway jukebox musical “Million Dollar Quartet” Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux. Original concept and direction by Floyd Mutrux; inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins launches the official Berkshire Theatre Group season on June 29. It's the main event of the season at the Colonial Theatre. While the Main Stage continues renovation the rest of the season is programmed for the Unicorn in Stockbridge.
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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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Kissing the Floor in New York
Ellen McLaughlin's Moving Take on Antigone
By: - Mar 02nd, 2023Kissing the Floor, a radical and strangely beautiful retelling of Antigone by Sophocles, is playing on Theatre Row in New York through March 12th. It is beautifully acted. The language, even as it describes ugly scenes, is lilting and lovely. Playwright Ellen McLaughlin often delves into Greek subjects.
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73rd Berlinale
Februray 16 to 26, 2023
By: - Mar 01st, 2023Too bad and not long enough! The 73rd Berlinale is now film history. After the limited screenings during the Covid years, the festival became an obvious success.
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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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The Literary Life
Winter Is for Writing Books
By: - Feb 28th, 2023In 2015 I wrote a book of poetry, Shards of a Life, which was launched with a reading and dialogue with director, Susan Wissler, at Edith Wharton's The Mount. It was an auspicious beginning. Each winter other books of poetry and oral history followed. There was a disruption in 2021 entailing recovery from spinal surgery. The eighth book, Annisquam: Pip and Me Coming of Age, is on track for a Spring/ Summer release.
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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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London's V&A Acquires David Bowie Archive
Encompassing More Than 80,000 Items
By: - Feb 23rd, 2023Spanning Bowie's career, the archive features handwritten lyrics, letters, sheet music, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie's own instruments, album artwork, and awards. It also includes more intimate writings, thought processes, and unrealised projects, the majority of which have never been seen in public before.
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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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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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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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Wicked in South Florida
A National Equity Touring Production
By: - Feb 21st, 2023Wicked is playing at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami through March 5. The same production will play at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach from March 29 through April 9. Wicked offers theatergoers a breathtaking visual feast, a mental workout, and an emotionally fulfilling theatrical experience.
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Bubbles for Oscars
FLEUR de MIRAVAL Will Flow for Celebrants
By: - Feb 20th, 2023Oscar night will prove to be absolutely Mirvalous. The Champagne poured at the 95th Oscars®, taking place on Sunday, March 12th will be fabulous FLEUR de MIRAVAL.
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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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The 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
Barrington Stage Company Extended Through March 12
By: - Feb 20th, 2023It is time yet again for the much anticipated 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival which is part of the 2023 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival that runs through March 5. For the 2023 version, under new artistic director, Alan Paul, 10X10 New Play Festival cast features 10X10 veterans Matt Neely, BSC Associate Artist Peggy Pharr Wilson and Robert Zukerman. Making their BSC 10X10 debuts are Skyler Gallun, Sky Marie and Camille Upshaw.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
Three Upcoming Events
By: - Feb 17th, 2023There is a lot of great music on tap for the next three weeks. It's time to shake of cabin fever and get out and about. Laissez les bons temps roule as they say in Creole.
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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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Chicago the Musical
Non-equity Tour in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Feb 16th, 2023A non-equity touring production of "Chiacgo" is playing in Ft. Lauderdale through Sunday. The venue is the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Chicago is particularly timely today.
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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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Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2023
Mark Morris Launches Season
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Running June 28 through August 27, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2023 will feature nine weeks of performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre and on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage, as well as special events, parties, and pop up performances in Berkshire County. This season will offer the largest breadth of international performers since 2019, as well as multiple performances with live music, and dance styles ranging from hip hop and street dance to ballet and contemporary.
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