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Sarasota Performing Arts Center Hits Another Snag
Seeking to Resolve Differences
By: - Oct 29th, 2026The long-contested plan to create a new performing arts center in The Bay park hit another significant roadblock this week when failure to reach consensus on an amended partnership agreement prompted the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation (SPAF) to initiate a dispute resolution process with the City of Sarasota.
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Young Frankenstein
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Oct 29th, 2026The Wick Theatre in South Florida has mounted a playful and spooky production of the stage musical, "Young Frankenstein." The musical's basis is the classic 1974 comic film of the same title by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.
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Part Three Conspiracy
The True North
By: - Oct 28th, 2026'I’ll fix you tomorrow,” he told the leaks, sliding pots beneath them. ‘After I call the landlord sunning in Ibiza.’ Fat chance, he thought.
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Julia Bulloock at Jordan Hall
Boston Modern Opera Project Brings Us an Intoxicating Mix
By: - Oct 28th, 2026Julia Bullock is one of the foremost sopranos of our time. She will perform at Jordan Hall with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on November 6th.
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American Classics It Takes Two
30th Concert Season
By: - Oct 28th, 2026American Classics announces its 30th concert season, "It Takes Two," a series of performances dedicated to teams of songwriters, lyricists, and composers who brought their talents together to create enduring songs.
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Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberly
Westport Country PLayhouse
By: - Oct 28th, 2026Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberly by Ken Ludwig presents us with an Elizabeth Bennett Darcy who is unlike any other Elizabeth I’ve ever seen. As a fan of the novel and Austen, this rendition of her was both irritating and disconcerting. The Elizabeth who I saw on the stage was more life her flighty sister, Lydia than the thinking and intelligent woman Austen wrote about. In fact, Lydia was more like Austen’s Elizabeth.
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Raphael Soyer Spanning Seven Decades
At Forum Gallery
By: - Oct 27th, 2026As the United States entered World War II, the “waiting room” subject assumed new gravitas. Soyer took himself to Pennsylvania Station at 34th Street to observe the human impacts of war. In short succession, a small group of train station paintings emerged from Soyer’s palette capturing a nation activated, and the profound human toll incurred, in emotional scenes depicting soldiers and loved ones saying goodbye.
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Curator Martha Oakley Retires
Cape Ann Museum Celebreates Her Lagacy
By: - Oct 27th, 2026After decades of dedicated stewardship, insightful research, and passion for our region's rich art and history, Chief Curator Martha Oaks has announced her retirement. Martha first joined the Museum in 1979 as a paid student intern, cataloguing the Gordon W. Thomas photograph collection through a grant from the National Trust.
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Dracula at Hartford Stage
Hit or Miss
By: - Oct 27th, 2026At the performance I saw, the audience’s response was decidedly mixed, as I was. I could appreciate the stage craft but felt the play was misguided.
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NightWood Returns to the Mount
Sixth Year
By: - Oct 27th, 2026The Mount’s immersive woodland experience of cinematic music, theatrical lighting, and scenic artistry returns November 21, inviting visitors to discover the magic of the woods after dark.
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Turkish-born Artist Hayal Pozanti
Solo Show at Brettleboro Museum and Arts Center
By: - Oct 27th, 2026Six years after moving to Vermont, Turkish-born artist Hayal Pozanti is bringing the extraordinary world of color and form inspired by her adopted home to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). "Hayal Pozanti: The World Sang Through Me,"
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
Plans for 2027
By: - Oct 26th, 2026Throughout this year, the Board of Trustees has remained focused on moving Williamstown Theatre Festival forward, working closely with staff to plan for the Festival’s future, including the intention to return to programming in Williamstown in 2027.
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The Lion in Winter - the Play
A Gripping Real-Life Battle Royal
By: - Oct 25th, 2026Henry may be king, but he still has to deal with his wife, Queen Eleanor's power, despite her being his prisoner for 10 years. Their battle concerns not just her freedom but succession, she being for Richard, and he for John.
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Manon
Jules Massenet as His Lyrical Best
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026Committed to a convent as an adolescent, Manon escapes to a relationship that will be compromised by the interference of her lover's father. The complex femme fatale undergoes a roller coaster of changing fortune performed to beautiful Romantic music.
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Tony Winner Dear Even Hansen
Manatee Performing Arts Center
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026The characters in the Tony Award-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” are all troubled in some way, struggling to fit in, trying to make connections or understand problems with loved ones they somehow missed.
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Women + on the Edge of Democracy
Shakespeare & Company
By: - Oct 22nd, 2026Shakespeare & Company will present nine readings of 10-minute plays, selected from Women+ On The Edge Of Democracy anthology of 34 woman-identifying playwrights. The titles were chosen by a committee of Company Artists, and will be presented in two acts with talkbacks at the end of each act.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Wilson Play Opens Yale Rep Season
By: - Oct 22nd, 2026Ma Rainey is set in Chicago, the only Wilson play not set in the hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It’s 1927 and blues singer Ma Rainey, who bills herself as the Mother of the Blues, is in a recording studio. The studio makes what were known as “race” records – sold exclusively in African American neighborhoods.
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Lincoln in the Bardo at the Met Opera
Missy Mazzoli Triumphs
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Missy Mazzoli’s new opera, Lincoln in the Bardo, recently had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. As a leading contemporary American composer, Mazzoli writes exceptionally well for the human voice. The Met has provided a luxury cast featuring Peter Mattei as Lincoln alongside Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, all in top form.
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From Call It in the Air
Waiting for the Sublime
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Joey was not feeling sublime about the essay. Especially since he was taking advantage of his role in Higgins’ history course by writing a paper on Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. And despite having read a literary critic refer to the play as sublime. If anything, writing the essay was the opposite of sublime. Higgins had insisted he have carte blanche.
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Streetcar Named Desire
At Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.
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Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Once “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.
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Carrie the Musical
At Manatee Players
By: - Oct 20th, 2026You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”
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Part III: The Burden and Grace of the Family Name
The Well
By: - Oct 20th, 2026The 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.
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MCLA Theatre Announces 2026-2027 Season
Celebrating Collaboration, Creativity, and the Art of Storytelling
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Massachusetts 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.
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Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company
ANTES DEL FIN in Cambridge
By: - Oct 20th, 2026The 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.
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