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DigBoston Suspends Print Edition
Plans to Publish On LIne
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have to shut down the print edition of this publication for the second time since March 2020 effective immediately. For those of you that follow the American news industry—its local print markets in particular—this should come as no surprise.
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Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program
Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) presents an MCLA Artist Lab Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience and Giving Artists an Opportunity to Interpret the World on Their Own Terms on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 pm.
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The Great Animal Orchestra at Peabody Essex Museum
Collaboration Between Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to announce a seven-week extension of the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Due to the overwhelming popularity, the exhibition will remain on view at PEM through July 10, 2022.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
The Joint is Jumpin'
By: - Apr 21st, 2022The jazz scene is alive and well in the Berkshires, as the Berkshire Eagle points out in this deep-dive by Bob Luhmann. Some history and a good look at the current scene combine to provide context for the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, April 23-May 1
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Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias
Produced by California's CVREP
By: - Apr 20th, 2022Latina/American born in Mexico, Karen Zacharias bases her “Native Gardens” comedy on her book of the same name, becoming the most produced playwright in America over the last four years. Her plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, The Book Club, and Legacy of Light, among many others
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ATCA New Play Awards
Critics Organization Announces Winners
By: - Apr 20th, 2022The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) recently announced the winners of new play awards for 2021. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award went to "Poor Clare" by Chiara Atik. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award went to Makasha Copeland for their play, "Extreme Home Makeover."
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IATI Theater Presents Bloom
By Marco Antonio Rodriguez
By: - Apr 19th, 2022The story is placed in “the not so distant future”, a dystopian exposition of the legal persecution of people with non-binary sexual and gender orientation. Julia is completely rejecting of her son's sexual reality. Roan has been taken away by the authorities, imprisoned and tortured. We learn that neighbors, family members and 'friends' have been responsible for turning him in. It is only a matter of hours before he will be picked up and returned to prison.
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Next to Normal
Opens Season at Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Apr 18th, 2022Next to Normal which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama is opening the season at Westport Country Playhouse through Sunday, April 24. The musical by Tom Kitts (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) tells the story of an American family facing a serious mental health issue.
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Jeremy Gill's Motherwhere Premiers in New York
Parker Quartet and New York Classical Players Shine
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Jeremy Gill’s Motherwhere premiered with the two stellar ensembles, the Parker Quartet and the New York Classical Player, performing. The evening began with Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile from his first string quartet. Madeline Fayette performed the movement exquisitely. She is known for her phrasing and the beauty of her tones. Gill's new rod followed.
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Gil Riley at Real Eyes Gallery
Adams Gallery Launches Summer Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Real Eyes Gallery previously exhibited Gil Riley’s show Peak Machine during the summer of 2020. We hope you will join us to celebrate this colorful, optimistic world. Gil Riley’s imagery is based on a psychomagically constructed myth: Liontamer’s Paradise. Her book of the same name was published in 2016 by American Typewriter Press. This show will include pieces painted and printed on wood and fabric, monoprint and limited edition books, and small wooden sculptures.
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Rabatt, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
A Serious Issue as a Farce
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Rabatt (discount), the newest production at the Gorki Theater in Berlin is a hilarious farce about a very serious issue – the burials of poor people in the world of the well to do.
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Boston's Lyric Stage
Program for 2022/23 Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Unforgettable moments, laughter, discovery, and joy, he Lyric Stage 2022/23 Season is a season to share.
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BAM Presents Jamie Lloyd and Martin Crimp
James McAvoy, a New Cyrano
By: - Apr 14th, 2022In the beginning was the word, said John in the Bible. This was also said about Cyrano de Bergerac. Jamie Lloyd and James McAvoy follow up with a version of Edmund Rostand’s play which celebrates the word as it is spoken today. No longer does it depend on a continuously mellifluous voice.
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Broadway Across America
2022-23 Season for Miami and Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Apr 14th, 2022Broadway Across America has announced the 2022-23 line-ups for Broadway in Miami and Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale. Among the shows, audiences will be able to see "Hamilton" again in Ft. Lauderdale, and "Wicked" in Miami. Perhaps the hottest show on Broadway, "Six" will play in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
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Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater
Biography by Alexis Greene
By: - Apr 13th, 2022Alexis Greene is the author and editor of numerous books about theater, including The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway, written with Julie Taymor, and the biography Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway. In addition to writing and editing books about women and theater, Greene’s career spans acting, theater criticism and teaching. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Endlings by Celine Song
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Apr 12th, 2022The main subjects of “Endlings” seem like inspiration for the kind of article you would see in “Parade” magazine – “World’s Most Unusual Occupations.” Three Korean women, aged 78 to 93, are the last of a dying breed in a centuries-old occupation.
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Gong Lum's Legacy at New Federal Theatre
Elizabeth Van Dyke Directs World Premiere by Charles L. White
By: - Apr 11th, 2022Gong Lum's Legacy is presented by Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company. Written by Charles L. White. Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The world is still Jim Crow's. We can peek into to the the lives of those oppressed by the system, both the African Americans and the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.
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Cats
Non-equity, National Touring Production
By: - Apr 10th, 2022A quality national, non-equity production of Cats is touring the country. The production's most recent stop was the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. Cats delivers emotionally.
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Guys and Dolls
South Florida's MNM Theatre Company
By: - Apr 09th, 2022MNM Theatre Company achieves mixed results with its current production of "Guys and Dolls." The production at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center runs through April 16. MNM Theatre Company is an award-winning, not-for-profit, professional group.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History
Review by Martin Mugar
By: - Apr 09th, 2022Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.
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Fefu And Her Friends
produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Apr 08th, 2022In 1977, María Irene Fornés’ innovative “Fefu and Her Friends” replicated the notion of an all-female cast but flips the script on all of those dimensions. It concerns a reunion of a group of friends gathered to rehearse a presentation to be given to a charity; themes are varied, including women’s relationships with women, which was pretty daring at the time; the single setting is Fefu’s house; action takes place in one day; and the characters, if a little wacky, are grounded in realism.
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Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi
Co-produced by Marin Theatre Company and A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle
By: - Apr 08th, 2022Yussef El Guindi’s new play deftly delves into a constellation of differences – not only cultural, but marital, economic, power, gender, and generational – some between cultures and some within. The result is a lively dramedy that reveals the causes and consequences of the cracks in the American couple’s marriage.
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Off Their Backs:
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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1776 Revival at A.R.T in May
Then Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre in September
By: - Apr 08th, 2022American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Co-presented with Roundabout Theatre Company (RTC), the production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 17; opens officially on Thursday, May 26; and plays through Sunday, July 24, 2022.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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