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Katori Hall's The Mountaintop
At MTC in Norwalk
By: - Feb 12th, 2022The Mountaintop features fine performances. It is the type of show that audience members will like, feeling as though they saw something meaningful. I am part of the group that thinks this is a very flawed play that often takes the easy way out.
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Music in Common's Black Legacy Project
At Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre
By: - Feb 11th, 2022On March 6, the Black Legacy Project will make its world premiere at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. The evening includes a preview screening of the documentary short about the Project produced by OUTPOST, a concert, and a community conversation. Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones, Annie Guthrie, Diego Mongue, and Eric Reinhardt are just some of the performers.
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Ottensamer and Bax Perform at Carnegie Hall
Music as Song Delights
By: - Feb 11th, 2022Alessio Bax and Andrea Ottensamer, two consummate artists, performed together and individually in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. They both seek to help us hear the origins of music as a communicative and an expressive medium. Yet there is nothing ponderous about their approaches.
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The Duration
World Premiere to Open at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
By: - Feb 11th, 2022The Duration, by Bruce Graham, will experience its world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. The production will run from Feb. 16-March 6. The Duration will mark the second play that Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts.
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Save on FreshGrass MoCA Tickets
All You Need Is Love and Bluegrass
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Prices for FreshGrass | North Adams increase in two weeks from $129 up to $149—on February 24 at 11:59pm—so snag your tickets now before you miss the chance to save $20 on each!
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Looted 8th Century Buddah Sculpture Found in Italy
Returned to India
By: - Feb 10th, 2022An 8th- 9th Century Bodhisattva sculpture, looted from The Devisthan Kundalpur Temple in Kurkihar, Bihar, India, has been recovered in Italy by Art Recovery International following a decades-long search.
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Shakespeare & Company Tickets on Sale
Two Shakespeare Plays and Homer's Iliad
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Shakespeare & Company has announced tickets are on sale now for the three Classic productions of its 45th Season: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, and An Iliad, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare.
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Lynn Nottage at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with a Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LCT, each tugging for their own interests.
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What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck
On Tour at the Huntington Theatre
By: - Feb 09th, 2022The Huntington announces Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me, a Broadway hit that is now on its national tour. The production runs from February 22 to March 20, 2022 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Palo Alto Players’Men on Boats
By: - Feb 09th, 2022By leaving much to the playgoer’s imagination, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus came up with a solution in her play “Men on Boats.” She figured - what if we present the action without boats and without a river and with only rudimentary set and props? And just for fun, how about as a final conceit that we eliminate the men? So, there you have it – a cast of all females and non-binaries with bare-bones staging, and the curtain can be raised.
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Dewey Hall's Sourdough Bread Baking Competition
Tasty Event in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Dewey Hall is to hold a sourdough bread baking competition on Friday, March 4th. Attendees will be invited to sample the contestants' breads, wine from DéPart, beer from Big Elm Brewery, and cheese from Rubiner’s Cheesemongers, and have the opportunity to win loaves of freshly baked sourdough bread via a raffle.
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The Obama Portraits Tour
At the Museum of FIne Arts, Boston
By: - Feb 09th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents the portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, as part of The Obama Portraits Tour organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
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Armature
World Premiere at South Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Armature is a searing and disturbing new play receiving a commendable world premiere production at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. The production runs through Feb. 27.
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World Premiere Opera in Washington
Four A List Composer/librettist Teams Contribute
By: - Feb 07th, 2022Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.
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The Kind Ones by Miranda Rose Hall
Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - Feb 07th, 2022The Biblically- inspired adage suggests that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and the same could be said of idle minds. With time to spare, mischief finds Miranda Rose Hall’s central character in this compact, 70 minute, two-hander.
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Lynn Nottage Turns to Opera at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 06th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LTC, each tugging for their own interests.
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Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
At Long Wharf Theater
By: - Feb 05th, 2022Anna Deavere Smith was a pioneer in what is often referred to as verbatim drama; the use of transcripts from interviews to create a work that explores an incident of social importance. She has used this form frequently, most recently with Notes from the Field about the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Authority and Freedom by Jed Perl
Ancient Dichotomy in Art
By: - Feb 05th, 2022At the end of his life did the wrong politics give Auden the possibility of cancelling Yeats’s greatness as a poet. It suggests that behind the concern for art being politically correct is the illness that Nietzsche said awaited our culture as a whole: the waste land grows: Resentment or “Ressentiment” as he used it is the deeply sour well out from which we channel art into predetermined realms of activity. Perl's new book is its diagnosis.
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Feb 04th, 2022“Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is well produced; highly provocative; dense with scholarly detail; and even has a few unexpected turnings of its own. But be prepared for something that may be outside your normal comfort zone.
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The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Virtual Programming This Spring
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance (CTD) is presenting an exciting mix of theatre and dance, virtual and in-person. CTD presents student and world-class artists celebrating diverse and challenging theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond. As a community service, all our virtual programming is free and open to all.
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Close Encounters With Music
Folk and Baroque in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 04th, 2022Folk and Baroque—Performed Live at Historic Saint James Place in Downtown Great Barrington, MA, February 26, 2021 at 6 PM
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Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous
At Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The actress, Anna has returned to the US from Amsterdam where she has lived for 25 years. She left the US after the “Naked Wilson” theater piece she devised and performed became the subject of controversy. Now, she has returned to Atlanta to, she thinks, perform the piece for the last time at a new arts festival.
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Remembering Todd McKee
Whimsical Boston Artist
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The Boston art community is saddened to learn of the passing of Todd McKee. He was an artist known for wit and whimsy in his work, primarily watercolor on paper.
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Black Chapel for London's Serpentine Pavilion
Chicago Based Artist Theaster Gates
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Drawing inspiration from the significance of the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, Theaster Gates’s Pavilion will pay homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions. While the structure of the Pavilion will predominantly be made of wood, the Pavilion’s design alludes to the performative and meditative qualities of a small chapel
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Terence Blanchard's Champion at Boston Lyric Opera
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe to Perform
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.
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