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A.R. Gurney's Sylvia in Arvada Colorado
Brilliant Production of an Odd Love Triangle
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia had a 1995 production in New York featuring Charles Kimbrough, Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker. It is one of Gurney’s most frequently produced plays. A husband in mid-life crisis would prefer the compansionship of a dog to a mistress.
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Performance Artist Tim Youd
100 Novels Project
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Tim Youd has been at work on his 100 Novels Project for about 10 years. The Jungle is #71 and he just finished retyping Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, on a early Remington typewriter at the Arts Club on Ontario Street. Anderson lived nearby (at the corner of what is now Wabash and Superior) when he was writing the book (a short story cycle), published in 1919.
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Hang at Shakespere & Company
By Debbie Tucker Green
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021In the playbill for Hang by Debbie Tucker Green, the setting is described as ‘Nearly now.’ How prescient the playwright is, to recognize old and new layers of fascism, terribly becoming everyday.
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Honoring Jazz Entrepreneur George Wein
In Tribute Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021Michael Rosenfeld Gallery had a long and personal relationship with George Wein and we remember and celebrate his kindness and spirit. In a recent letter to Michael Rosenfeld on the occasion of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, he wrote: “30 plus years ago, by chance I walked into a brownstone building on the Upper East Side. There was a sign outside that said: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. That was the day I met you. And to say it changed my life, is putting it mildly.”
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Denver
Robert Harling's Classic Perfetly Produced
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021Steel Magnolias is staged by the Cherry Creek Theater in Denver, Colorado. This comic tragedy comes alive in a beauty parlor, whose window frames look out on the talk of the town parading by. In the South, men sit under a pecan tree and talk about affairs as if they all had PhDs from Harvard. The women hunker down to have their hair and nails done.
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A Crossing: A Dance Musical
Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021While focused on a group of migrants this is the story of all of us. It conveys an America rooted in exclusion, violence and intolerance. This is a stunning new musical for all Americans.
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Trump Promised to Drain the Swamp
DC Still Mucked Up
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021It’s been almost a year since November 2020 when Mr. Trump lost his presidential reelection bid but secretly refuses to accept his defeat. And “the big lie’ theory continues to poison the political well being of the nation.
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Gateways Inn in Downtown Lenox
Announces Jazz Series
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Gateways Inn in downtown Lenox has announced a new jazz series, starting in October and running Thursdays through Saturdays, with a special concert on Sunday, Oct. 24. Presented in association with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the series underscores the venue’s ongoing dedication to live music.
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Haunted Hancock Shaker Village
Spooky Tours
By: - Oct 01st, 2021Peer into hidden spaces, with guides sharing tales of ghosts that dwell here and the Shakers' participation in the Spiritualist Movement.
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Otto Zitko New Works
At Crone Wien in Vienna
By: - Oct 01st, 2021In Otto Zitko’s work, space determines form and content. The central design element is the seemingly endless line running across large-format picture panels, sheets, or walls, which is applied with paint rollers or thick oil pens. Behind the supposedly purely expressive character of his works lies a complex structure of self-organization, the sounding out of physiological movement in space, and different levels of consciousness and energy.
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Clark Art Institute’s First Sundays
Free Admission on October 3
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program returns on Sunday, October 3. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.
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Yehuda Hanani and Close Encounters Return
Classic, Jazz, Whimy and Bee Bop in One Splendid Evening
By: - Sep 30th, 2021An invitation to a close encounter with very special music. Paul Schoenfield’s runaway classical hit, Café Music for piano trio, sets the tone for a celebratory re-opening. Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible.
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Cleo Parker Robinson, Going the Distance
Celebrating 50 Years of Black dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2021Cleo Parker Robinson is celebrating the 51st anniversary of the founding of her dance troupe. Covid buried the 50th. This celebration had added sizzle. Live dance is happening at last.
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Sculpture by Jared Abner and Steven Muller.
At Boston's HallSpace
By: - Sep 28th, 2021In "Wood Play" both artists are having fun with the materials and the forms. The work in this exhibition evokes that joy. Steve Muller's assembled sculptures play with sticks/lines, broken, abrupt, and jagged. They are simple intelligent collages, with a touch of wry humor. Jared Abner discovers forms by following the shapes and grain of the wood he is carving.
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Shout! The Mod Musical
At South Bay Musical Theatre
By: - Sep 28th, 2021“Shout! The Mod Musical” is a musical revue of the ‘60s shown through the experiences of five young adult women living in London, as conceived and curated by three American men (of course)! The songbook draws from tunes of the era, predominantly those popularized by English songbirds, especially Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark (“Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Downtown” for starters.)
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Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition November 20 to February 20
By: - Sep 28th, 2021Today tattoos are ubiquitous in our culture. The Museum of Fine Arts offers a timely echibition Tattoos in Japanese Prints from November 20 to February 20. The exhibition features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) and his contemporaries—including his colleague and rival Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864) and his pupil Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892).
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Melvin Van Peebles, Going the Distance
An Appreciation
By: - Sep 27th, 2021Melvin Van Peebles, the black entrepreneur, died on September 21. Over the years, brief encounters revealed many of his sparkling facets.
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Carolyn Newberger at Galatea Fine Arts
Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse
By: - Sep 26th, 2021Carolyn Newberger is a Berkshire based polymath. From October 1 through 31 she will exhibit Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse at Boston's Galatea Fine Arts. "Typically working in broad strokes on paper with watercolor and charcoal or ink, in twenty minutes or less I seek to bring onto the page the ineffable personhood of the model, his or her thoughtfulness, mental state, humor and distinctiveness," she says of this new work.
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Kristy Edmunds Joins MASS MoCA
Second Director of North Adams Museum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.
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Young Composers at the Ojai Festival
Free to Be an Individual in Sound
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021John Adams writes about his release from the shackles binding him as a Northeastern composer in the US. Coming to California as a young man, he was at last able to write the music he heard, whatever shape it took. He was free to be an individual. Each of the young composers featured prominently in Ojai 2021 has clearly benefited from Adams’ experience.
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Billy Crystal at Barrington Stage Company
Mr. Saturday Night a Work in Development
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC),welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal in a presentation of a new musical in development, Mr. Saturday Night, on the Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street) for nine performances. A new musical comedy, Mr. Saturday Night is about one man’s meteoric rise to the middle. The musical is a work in development and will be presented with minimal set and costume pieces.
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Jacob’s Pillow Announces Fall Artist Residencies
Fourth Year of Pillow Lab
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Jacob’s Pillow announces this season’s artist residencies offered at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work. The Fall 2021 recipients include jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, Indigenous Enterprise, Taylor Stanley and Shamel Pitts, and Yve Laris Cohen.
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The Ojai Music Festival Is Now
John Adams Mixes a Potent Broth
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021The annual Ojai Music Festival is arguably the most exciting music event in this country. It “monitors the everchanging mood and directions of our musical atmosphere.” A challenge to be sure. A challenge which is richly met and then some.
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Was It Me by Andrea Fulton
Theatre for the New City is Live Again
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Theater for the New City, Executive Director Crystal Field presents Andrea Fulton's Was it Me? Directed by Kymbali Craig, the play gives us a poignant peak into everyday life. Fulton probes the anguish of a woman burdened by an unresolved memory of a traumatizing assault in her childhood. Fulton brings the question of self blame to the fore as the woman asks: “Was it something about me that made this happen?"
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Noorrrraaaaaaa after Ibsen
The Gorki Theater, Berlin
By: - Sep 21st, 2021Just be aware. The premiere of Nora at Berlin's smallest theatre, The Gorki Theater, offers anything but the expected story line of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play about a woman stepping out of a comfortable upper middle class family life to become independent.
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