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Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.

You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”

The well was dug long before you arrived. Its waters are cold, pure, and constant, supplied by underground streams you cannot see. But the well does not draw its own water. The stewardship lies entirely in the unglamorous, repetitive daily discipline: walking the worn path, lowering the bucket into the dark, and hauling the weight back up into the sunlight.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre announces its 2026-2027 performance season, featuring six events that celebrate the possibilities of live theater through professional collaboration, inventive storytelling, student experimentation, and original performance.

The Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company features a top cast of dancers, musicians and guest artists from Spain in a new show, ANTES DEL FIN (BEFORE THE END) that explores human evolution and condition through the lens of Flamenco music, dance and theater.

Santa Fe's richly diverse and exquisite restaurant scene now includes a top-drawer Vietnamese restaurant. Unique ingredients and creative combinations lead to a fine dining experience

The event invites area arborists to take part in this day of pruning, removals and plantings in the peaceful and sensitive stretches of Riverwalk and Riverfront. Arborists will convene near the W.E.B. DuBois rain garden/kiosk off River Street at about 8 a.m.

Everything about the Simon Stephens deconstruction of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya into the one act solo by Mark H. Dold, Vanya, at Barrington Stage company is truly remarkable.

The Fillmore was the Bay Area's center of African-American life and jazz in the 1950s. An ill-advised urban renewal project displaced over 10,000 residents and forever destroyed the area's character. A new musical looks at the environs then and now through the context of a fictional family

The Greek National Opera made its United States debut at Carnegie Hall with a program titled Nikos Kazantzakis An Odyssey in Music. Kazantzakis' novels are among the most frequently translated across the globe, and his iconic character Zorba came alive on stage at Carnegie.

The exhibition features remarkable paintings, drawings, and illustrations spanning the early 1900s through the early 2000s, highlighting the Wyeths’ creative legacy and distinct artistic styles. Notably, these generational works invite museumgoers to explore the Wyeth family's creative legacy.

In Happening at the Edge, Soles continues to draw inspiration from nature, specifically areas of transition: the shore, meadows, tree line, and natural boundaries. These areas are a change of habitat for different life forms. These places can bring anxiety and calm.

In the opera house, he is known as Benjamin Bliss and is highly regarded. At the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, he goes simply by Ben, singing a wide range of songs in his beautiful voice and speaking to us through the sound of music.

The book he was reading was This Way for The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen: Tadeusz Borowski's numbing collection of short stories set in Auschwitz. Unlike The Triple Alliance, it was neither amusing nor speculative. It was fact. Disturbing and actual fact.

The prolonged delay is the result of a dispute between the county and the Hermitage – which has rented the property for a nominal fee since 2002 in return for caretaking and maintenance – over how those repairs could most expeditiously and economically be completed, and who should be responsible for making them.

A light-hearted culture clash between Europeans and Turks begins with captivity but ends in magnanimity.

“Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”

he Mount, Edith Wharton Cultural Center, presents The Lit Salon of the Berkshires, a new series curated by author Michelle Young (The Art Spy) that pairs literature with live music in an intimate, candlelit setting. Held at Barrington Hall in Great Barrington, the Salon is a unique Berkshire collaboration, and it feels made for the long, cozy months ahead.

Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) has announced the appointment of Martin Mansfield as its new President and CEO, bringing extensive experience in arts leadership, fundraising, law, and opera to the organization.

The theme for this year’s symposium, “The Living Forest,” focuses on the remarkable ecological, cultural and community connections that make forests essential to our lives. From carbon storage and climate resilience to tree health, forest management and the remarkable relationships between species, this symposium brings together ecologists, foresters, educators, and land stewards to explore what makes a forest a living, interconnected system and how we can become better stewards of it.

This December Kingston Gallery is pleased to present in the Main Gallery Mirror, Mirror, an exhibition of virtuosic new paintings and drawings by Mira Cantor, work which considers the incredible colors of skin, the intimacy of portraiture, and the courage it takes to look at one another. In the Project Space is A Clutter of Roses, the latest iteration of the ever-intriguing work of Nat Martin,

Repurposing discarded metal materials, Beerits crafts creatures straddling the line between the familiar and the mythic. In his realm, scythes become wings, colanders become scales, wrenches become pincers, and oil drums become feathers. Employing traditional metalworking and found-object assembly, he explores the spiritual power of the natural world through the materials of our human-dominated era.

The Berlin Philharmoniker performed a second program on October 9 and 11 to inaugurate Carnegie Hall’s new season. Brahms's challenging first piano concerto began the program. This difficult work began life as a two-piano piece, morphed into a symphony, and finally became a concerto. Its problems were not only solved by the pianist Vikingur Olafsson and the orchestra, but translated musically into virtues.

One of the most enjoyable plays of the season, Summer of 1976, by David Auburn is on view at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge The one act two -hander entails young mothers in a college town. Alice (Kate Baldwin) is a faculty wife whose husband, Doug, faces tenure review in the fall. Diana (Jennifer van Dyck) is a single mother and artist who teaches part time. Their five-year-old daughters, Holly and Gretchen, have become fast friends.

Minotaur, the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Grand Prix at Cannes. It is based on Claude Chabrol's 1969 film The Unfaithful Wife.  Zvyagintsev updates the narrative, setting it in Russia during the autumn of 2022, right when the partial military mobilization for the war with Ukraine began. On the surface, the characters lead an ordinary life, yet everything unfolds in a deeply ominous atmosphere.