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Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
By: - Apr 07th, 2022This spring, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present an exhibition by pioneering abstractionist artist Sam Gilliam. Between May 25 and Sept. 4, “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle” will pair a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with “Rail” (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
At Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Director Layne has cast 22 performers to tell the achingly poignant story of Cyrano and Roxane. There are a couple metaphors on the foibles and folly of the human condition that run throughout that could easily recall a memory or two bringing misty eyes to those in the audience who can still relate. Yes. It’s somewhat of a tragedy masquerading as a comedy in dead earnest Love is like that sometimes.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Apr 07th, 2022The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years.
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August: Osage County
By Tracy Letts at San Jose Stage
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Playwright Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Award winning play concerns the family reunion from hell. The family doge, Beverly, was a prominent poet in his younger days, but settled into a long life as a disgruntled teacher and acknowledged but likeable alcoholic. Several days after his unexplained disappearance, Violet, his wife and family doyenne, musters the troops.
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Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
God Is Not Bashful
By: - Apr 05th, 2022Gott Ist Nicht Schuechtern (God is not bashful) received its re-opening at the New Stage of the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin at the end of March 2022. It is now more appropriate with the war raging in Ukraine.
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Suddenly Last Summer
At Island City Stage
By: - Apr 05th, 2022South Florida theater fans have a chance to see a production of an infrequently-staged Tennessee Williams play titled "Suddenly Last Summer." The production runs through April 17. Some may recall the story from the 1959 film with the same title, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.
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Intimate Apparel
A Palm Beach Dramaworks Production
By: - Apr 04th, 2022Lynn Nottage's drama, Intimate Apparel is a fine fit at Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD). The professional, nonprofit company's production runs through April 17. PBD's production, fittingly, takes place in the company's intimate Don & Ann Brown Theatre.
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Simon Dinnerstein at the Miller Theatre
Goldberg Variations on a Brand New Yamaha Piano
By: - Apr 04th, 2022Simon Dinnerstein performed Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Miller Theatre. She is a magician at the keyboard, giving us all the spiritual richness of the work along with great joy.
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Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes
At Long Wharf
By: - Apr 02nd, 2022I found much to like about this show which focuses on Latinx sisters who turn to one of these shows – called Flip It and List It — to sell their family home. The home was built by their great grandfather after he arrived from Mexico in the late 1800s and has been passed down through the generations.
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Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Apr 01st, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work
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Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall
American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion
By: - Mar 31st, 2022Leave it to Leon Botstein, America’s great educator, to bring Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige to Carnegie Hall, where is premiered in 1943 as a fundraiser for the Russian war effort, (The world turns.) Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson and Langston Hughes were in attendance that evening. Now Botstein conducting is cool. He often listens and taps his foot, slightly swaying to the improvisatory sections of works performed
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Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village
A Legacy of Major Accomplishments
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced today that director Jennifer Trainer Thompson will step down in July. Thompson has been widely credited for her transformational leadership of the museum and is recognized as an innovator in the museum community. Since her appointment in September 2016, Hancock Shaker Village has grown in size and stature and has been infused, as The Boston Globe noted last summer, “with great gusts of contemporary vitality”.
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The building of wall drawings at MASS MoCA has become a pilgrimage site for Sol LeWitt one of the foremost artists of his generation. They are on semi-permanent display with a contract for 25 years. For a more limited time, through June 11, there is the opportunity to experience the work on a more personal and intimate manner with Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Annie Baker has established herself with a naturalistic stream of plays, including the trilogy taking place in the town of Shirley, Vermont, of which this play is a member. These are narratives about ordinary people doing ordinary things, often written and acted with such uninflected manner as to elevate boredom and long silences as virtues.
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Spring Lambs at Hancock Shaker Village
Season Opens Saturday, April 16
By: - Mar 29th, 2022“Spring at Hancock Shaker Village is a joyous time,” said Director Jennifer Trainer Thompson. “Our farm literally ‘springs’ to life and there may be nothing cuter than a baby animal. When you add to that 20 historic buildings, and a lot of creative programming --- from farm talks to concerts to the spiritual richness of brooms --- you find a union with content that creates an unparalleled experience. Welcome back, and welcome to our 2022 season!”
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Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage
Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.
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Union Protests Against Whitney Museum
To Leaflet During Gala Opening
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art will be outside in front of the Museum for tomorrow evening’s VIP opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, handing out leaflets with information about union negotiations. The Union, consisting of almost two hundred professional, facilities and visitor services workers has been negotiating for several months for a first contract.
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Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera
The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall
By: - Mar 28th, 2022The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.
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Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon
Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Since its 1897 founding, the Boston Marathon has regularly transformed in its appearance, its demographics, and its meaning. As its 126th running on April 18 nears, The Lotvin Family Gallery examines how the marathon’s changes have been reflected in the pages of another Boston institution, The Boston Globe, now celebrating its 150th year of publication.
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Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.
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Ben Butler
Boca Stage in Boca Raton
By: - Mar 28th, 2022"Ben Butler" is a comedy that takes place at the beginning of the Civil War. The play, by Richard Strand, is part comedy, part historical drama, and part biography. Boca Stage is presenting the play through April 10.
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Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet
Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales
By: - Mar 28th, 2022“Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players. It premieres in New York on April 1. The author of the book that inspired the work, Zsófia Bán, is arriving from Hungary for the performance.
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La Cage aux Folles
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 27th, 2022The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.
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Little Girl Blue by Laiona Michelle
Nina Simone Lives Again in New York
By: - Mar 27th, 2022Laiona Michelle inhabits and projects the great American soul singer, social activist and classical pianist Nina Simone in a compelling stage show. Designed as two of the evenings Nina Simone actually created, mixing storytelling and moving melodies, Michelle brings the Little Girl Blue to life.
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Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - Mar 25th, 2022In action that shifts back and forth between scenarios, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’ clever 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning “Water by the Spoonful” follows two seemingly independent threads through Act 1. One is a chat group for recovering cocaine addicts. The other concerns two young adult, Puerto Rican American cousins bereaving the passing of one’s mother. The threads will intertwine in Act 2.
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