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  • Sam Gilliam: Full Circle

    Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

    By: Hirshorn - Apr 07th, 2022

    This 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.

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

    At Palm Canyon Theatre

    By: Jack Lyons - Apr 07th, 2022

    Director 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.

  • Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    By: Guggenheim - Apr 07th, 2022

    The 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.

  • August: Osage County

    By Tracy Letts at San Jose Stage

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 07th, 2022

    Playwright 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. 

  • Berliner Ensemble, Berlin

    God Is Not Bashful

    By: Angelika Jansen - Apr 05th, 2022

    Gott 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.

  • Suddenly Last Summer

    At Island City Stage

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 05th, 2022

    South 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.

  • Intimate Apparel

    A Palm Beach Dramaworks Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 04th, 2022

    Lynn 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.

  • Simon Dinnerstein at the Miller Theatre

    Goldberg Variations on a Brand New Yamaha Piano

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 04th, 2022

    Simon 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.

  • Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes

    At Long Wharf

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 02nd, 2022

    I 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.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 01st, 2022

    Michel 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

  • Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall

    American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 31st, 2022

    Leave 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

  • Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village

    A Legacy of Major Accomplishments

    By: Shaker - Mar 30th, 2022

    The 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”.

  • Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints

    Williams College Museum of Art

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 30th, 2022

    The 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.

  • Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker

    Produced by Custom Made Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 29th, 2022

    Annie 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.

  • Spring Lambs at Hancock Shaker Village

    Season Opens Saturday, April 16

    By: Shaker - 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!”

  • Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage

    Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 29th, 2022

    Dishwasher 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.

  • Union Protests Against Whitney Museum

    To Leaflet During Gala Opening

    By: Union - Mar 29th, 2022

    Unionized 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.

  • Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera

    The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.

  • Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon

    Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts

    By: Arthur Dion - Mar 28th, 2022

    Since 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.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    Michel 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.

  • Ben Butler

    Boca Stage in Boca Raton

    By: Aaron Krause - 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.

  • Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet

    Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales

    By: Susan Hall - 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.

  • La Cage aux Folles

    Produced by Altarena Playhouse

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 27th, 2022

    The 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.

  • Little Girl Blue by Laiona Michelle

    Nina Simone Lives Again in New York

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 27th, 2022

    Laiona 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.

  • Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

    2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 25th, 2022

    In 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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