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  • Sergei Isupov: Past and Present

    Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams

    By: Ferrin - May 05th, 2022

    Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by  internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • Nicole Chesney: Albedo

    On View at Gallery NAGA

    By: NAGA - May 05th, 2022

    Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body. 

  • Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet

    May at Images Cinema in Williamstown

    By: Images - May 05th, 2022

    “Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.

  • Figuration Reconsidered

    Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World

    By: Martin Mugar - May 05th, 2022

    The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.

  • Guild of Berkshire Artists

    Upcoming Events

    By: Guild - May 05th, 2022

    The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.

  • American Buffalo by David Mamet

    Nick Pepe Makes the Play Live

    By: Susan Hall - May 04th, 2022

    American Buffalo, David Mamet’s great play, is running on Broadway now with a stellar cast.  Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss give us Donny, Teach and Bobby, pacing the thrust stage chock full of junk like pieces of junk themselves. Bobby is a junkie. All three men have a false belief that they can alter the downward trajectory of their lives.

  • Berkshire Mountain Distillers Cultural Cocktails

    Toasting the Arts This Summer

    By: BMD - May 04th, 2022

    Participating cultural organizations include Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Berkshire International Film Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Community Access to the Arts, The Clark, Hancock Shaker Village, Jacob’s Pillow, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, MASS MoCA, The Mount, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, The Trustees and Williamstown Theatre Festival. 

  • Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta

    At A Red Orchid Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 04th, 2022

    Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere. 

  • Moltings a Solo Booth with Odessa Straub

    NADA NY Booth 5.15

    By: September - May 04th, 2022

    Odessa Straub begins with sourcing and collecting materials, some of which have been in her possession for years and others acquired from online sites, thrift stores, junk yards and discarded refuse. Her searching and selection process is as intensive—and playful—as her making.

  • Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out

    Broadway Revival at Helen Hayes Theater

    By: Karen Isaacs - May 04th, 2022

    Take a star baseball player who is talented, thoughtful and charismatic and see what happens when he announces that he is gay. What is the effect on his longtime friend? the locker room? What happens later on when a red-neck rookie is called up from the minor leagues? Does this one announcement cause a championship team to struggle?

  • All’s Well That End Well

    At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 02nd, 2022

    All’s Well That End Well is based on a tale from Boccaccio’s The Decameron. (It was tale  9 of day 3: the story of Giletta di Narbona.) Like a few other Shakespeare plays, All’s Well is considered a problem play, suggesting that it involves complex ethical issues that can’t be dealt with by simple solutions. Most scholars believe that Thomas Middleton, a noted playwright of his time, either collaborated with Shakespeare on the play or revised it later.

  • Two Synge One Acts at Irish Rep

    Charlotte Moore Captures the Playwright's Spirit

    By: Susan Hall - May 02nd, 2022

    Charlotte Moore must have the same feeling for the Irish and their language that the playwright John Milington Synge did. In the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theater, a small venue located underneath the main house at the Irish Repertory Theatre, the people of Ireland are brought startlingly, truly to life. Two Synge One Acts abut each other.  As audience in this theater, you are so close that you feel a part of the action, the language invades and elevates you.  It is a thrilling experience.

  • A Sense of Place at Real Eyes Gallery

    Benefit for Louison House

    By: NAC - May 02nd, 2022

    “A Sense of Place” is a joint effort of North Adams Contemporary (NAC) and Real Eyes Gallery to benefit Louison House. The non profit will received 50% if sales from the exhibition. . NAC is a collaboration of four artists, Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera.

  • Barrington Stage Company

    Broadway's Best

    By: BSC - Apr 29th, 2022

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces Summer 2022 Events with Broadway’s Best at the Boyd-Quinson Stage and the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.

  • BSO's Andris Nelsons to Munich Philharmonic

    New Orchestra Replaces BSO

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 29th, 2022

    The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will take over two more concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg on May 20 and 21. The orchestra is filling in for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which had to cancel its entire European tour for this spring due to a major corona outbreak among the musicians*. The Munich Philharmonic is looking forward to these two concerts with Andris Nelson.

  • Wine Australia’s Marketing GM Paul Turale

    Looking Up Down Under

    By: Australia - Apr 27th, 2022

    Wine Australia has announced the appointment of its new General Manager of Marketing Paul Turale, commencing 30 May 2022.

  • Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

    Swings Into Second Weekend

    By: Ed Bride - Apr 27th, 2022

    The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival is now in full swing (sorry), ushered-in last weekend with the very successful Jam Session at Mission Restaurant. Ten different musicians rotated among the various positions “in the window” at the popular North Street restaurant.

  • Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard

    At Boston Lyric Opera

    By: BLO - Apr 27th, 2022

    The true story of six-time world champion prizefighter Emile Griffith is told in Boston Lyric Opera’s (BLO) new production of Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard (Fire Shut Up in My Bones), with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cristofer.

  • Philip Glass Premiere at The Crypt

    Wendy Sutter Performs on Cello

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 26th, 2022

    The suite drew praise from audiences and critics world-widewide and was voted best new CD of the year by listeners of National Public Radio. The Crypt Sessions return with the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Songs and Poems II written for – and performed by – the magnificent Wendy Sutter, whom the Wall St. Journal casually hailed as “one of the great leading cellists of the classical stage.” 

  • 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards

    Honoring Broadway and Off Broadway

    By: Outer - Apr 26th, 2022

    Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy with nine nominations, followed by the Off-Broadway musicals Harmony and Kimberly Akimbo which earned eight nods each. The most recognized Broadway musicals of the season are MJ the Musical and Paradise Square, with seven nominations each.

  • Star of Freedom

    World Premiere Musical at Ivoryton Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 26th, 2022

    Star of Freedom has music by Connecticut resident Jeff Blaney and a book by Lawrence Thelen. The piece began life as the concept album Exodus; Executive/Artistic Director Jacqueline Hubbard saw the possibilities and brought it to Thelen to write the book.

  • Emmanuel Iduma Earns AICA Prize

    Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism

    By: AICA - Apr 26th, 2022

    Emmanuel Iduma’s prize is in memory of Irving Sandler, esteemed art critic and valued board member and friend, who tirelessly illuminated the role of art, artists and art criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries. The award includes a gift of $2,500.

  • Confederates by Dominique Morisseau

    Signature Theatre Produces Premiere

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 26th, 2022

    Dominique Morisseau has taken a loaded topic, the Big Mamma of black plantation culture, and fixed her in a space during the Civil War mashed up with the present.  Big Mamma is bursting out of her role in the 1860s, getting the notion that with gun in hand and books to be read she can be free.  In the present, she is  a university professor, nurturing a young black student, a white student and a black female assistant anxious for tenure.  Tyler Perry and Martin Lawrence have made fun of Big Mamma. The strength of Tennessee Williams’ white Big Mamma in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, comes from the springboard of this icon of  plantation life.

  • Artist Hermann Nitsch at 83

    A Vienna Actionist

    By: Charles Giuliano - Apr 25th, 2022

    The Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, died at 83 on 18 April, 2022. Then in his 20s during the 1960s he and colleagues Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler performed actions entailing animal and human body parts and functions. They went for the jugular of conservative/ reactionary, post war Austrian culture. The authorities were not enlightened or amused. Their outrageous stunts were punished by prison sentences from a few months to seven years in the case of Muehl. During the late 1980s I spent a day with Nitsch at his rural schloss and studios.

  • Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition

    Williams Features New Acquisitions

    By: WCMA - Apr 22nd, 2022

    The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present the next iteration of Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition. This ongoing exhibition reinterprets the museum’s encyclopedic collection through thematic groupings, highlighting new research, new acquisitions, and new curatorial voices.

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