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My Fair Lady
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Feb 19th, 2026The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton presents an engaging, yet imperfect professional production of "My Fair Lady" through Sunday. The 1950's musical's basis is George Bernard Shaw's 191 witty and satiric play, Pygmalion.
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The Red Hangar at the Berlin International Film Festival
A Resonating Story
By: - Feb 19th, 2026The Red Hangar (Hangar Rojo), a 2026 Chilean historical thriller directed by Juan Pablo Sallato, is being shown in the Perspectives section at the Berlin International Film Festival. Captain Jorge Silva is forced to choose between obeying orders and listening to his conscience. This uncomfortable dilemma does not arise only in the present moment of the 1973 Chilean military coup, but also from his past.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage
Brightening Winter Gloom
By: - Feb 16th, 2026With a cast of Barrington Stage Company favorites, BSC presents 10 fast-paced plays full of drama, comedy, wit, and irreverence, in its annual 10x10 New Play Festival, the cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Upstreet Winter Arts Festival. Now in its fifteenth year, 10x10 will run for five weeks, from February 12 through March 15, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center in Downtown Pittsfield. Get tickets now as this usually sells out.
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Alexander Calder: The Nature of Movement
Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota., Florida
By: - Feb 16th, 2026After lunch, my father and I followed Calder down a short path that led to the high-ceilinged studio. which sat on a plateau where the “vultures” I’d noticed from afar, came into view as a flock of stabiles. They were mostly black, a few red, enormous and, despite their stationary nature, seemed as if they were poised to take off at any minute.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Groping for Light
Secrets of the Cave
By: - Feb 18th, 2026The men tried to impress the ladies. We on the staff just raised our eyes and said ‘oh, oh, another major bullshitter’. Few simply said, ‘ahh, c’est un excellent vin’. Oh no, most of them had to embellish with comments about le bouquet, la robe, les larmes, la belle attaque, la couleur, and tra-la-la.
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Sarasota Performing Arts Center
Updated Plans
By: - Feb 19th, 2026It has been just under a year since members of the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation brought their plan for a new performing arts center within The Bay Park to the Sarasota City Commission, hoping to move the public/private partnership forward toward implementation and a final design. What they got instead was an earful of critiques and a charge to return to the drawing board prior to any vote on a controversial project that’s been part of Sarasota’s bayfront revision plan since its start in 2018.
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Masiko Kamiya's Vessels
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Feb 18th, 2026In this recent series of paintings, Kamiya offers a profound visual translation of the physical self, deeply rooted in her personal experience with bilateral hip dysplasia. As this ailment has grown more acute, her focus has shifted toward a search for dependable balance within the asymmetrical relationship.
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Frozen Enchants Little Girls
Adults Not So Much
By: - Feb 18th, 2026Problems begin with the work itself. Frozen does not feature the best music or lyrics. Many of the songs are ho-hum. The story makes the plot of The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast Pulitzer Prize eligible. The music and lyrics don’t elevate the story.
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A Prayer for the Dying Premieres in Berlin
Dara Van Dusen is a Superb Filmmaker
By: - Feb 19th, 2026A film adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s novel A Prayer for the Dying premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. The director, Dara Van Dusen—Hollywood royalty as the granddaughter of Baby Doll’s Carroll Baker—is a creature of the world, countering America’s current image of backsliding into the past. Van Dusen studied film in Poland and now lives in Norway.
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Driving Miss Daisy
Collaboration between Palm Beach Dramaworks in Florida and Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts.
By: - Feb 15th, 2026Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in South Florida and Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in the Berkshires are staging the classic play "Driving Miss Daisy." The triumphant production continues through March 1 at PBD and runs May 27-June 21 at BSC. "Driving Miss Daisy" tackles timely themes and opens our hearts to people different from us.
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Salome
West Bay Offers Solid Production of Strass's Classic
By: - Feb 16th, 2026In a psychopathic rage, Herod's adopted daughter, Salome, calls for the beheading of John the Baptist. Tense music underscores the tense drama.
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ICA Director Sue Thurman
Thriving on Newbury Street
By: - Feb 13th, 2026From its inception in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art has endured a daunting existential struggle. As late as 1971 the Museum of Fine Arts appointed a part time curator of contemporary art. Lack of interest for modern and contemporary art resulted in a community which did not significantly support institutions, collectors, galleries and artists. The story of the ICA represents the struggle to overcome that indifference. Relocated to Newbury Street, it thrived from 1963-1968 under director Sue Thurman.
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Cultivating Your Inner Healer
The Power of Qi
By: - Feb 10th, 2026You have the power to cultivate and direct your chi for healing purposes. This isn’t about magic or mysticism; it’s about harnessing the body’s inherent capacity for self-regulation and tapping into a powerful energy source
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M. Butterfly
The Story of an Unbelievable Relationship
By: - Feb 14th, 2026In this fictionalized true story, a French diplomat has a 20-year relationship with a singer of Chinese opera. Despite carnal encounters, the Frenchman claims never having known that the modest and delicate creature was a man. David Henry Hwang's story and themes are interlaced with those of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Dracula and the Iron Curtain
Operation Jungle Book
By: - Feb 11th, 2026If I had been arrested, I would have given up your name in a heartbeat. Even if they didn’t ask me.
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Programming Joy
Cultural Strategy in an Age of Exhaustion
By: - Feb 12th, 2026I keep returning to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance. Few global artists have been as scrutinized and politicized as he has. His communities remain persistently endangered, and his homeland exists within the long, uneasy tensions of American territorial power. By every expectation of protest performance, that stage could have been a site of fury, a reckoning, an indictment, a civic interrogation broadcast to the largest audience on earth.
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A Case for the Existence of God
New City Players in Wilton Manors
By: - Feb 13th, 2026New City Players is preparing to present its professional production of "A Case for the Existence of God" by Samuel D. Hunter. The production will run from Feb. 20-March 8 in Island City Stage's intimate black box space in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. The play spotlights two struggling men who connect.
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The Mountaintop
Oakland Theater Project's Powerful Fantasy About Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: - Feb 09th, 2026Katori Hall's fantasy of MLK speculates his last night before his assassination. He asks a maid who delivers coffee to him in his motel room to keep him company. He finds that this is no working-class simpleton, but a challenge to his assumptions in more ways than one.
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2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
The Look
By: - Feb 09th, 2026The “Look” of the 2026 Games succeeds at what should be its elemental function — the connection of beauty, athleticism, celebration, and memory.
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Weinberg's Passenger at Opera Frankfurt
We Must Not Forget
By: - Feb 10th, 2026Opera Frankfurt gives a commanding and deeply engaging performance of The Passenger by Mieczysaw Weinberg, with a libretto by Alexander Medvedev. Dmitri Shostakovich, a close friend of the composer, read Zofia Posmysz’s novel and immediately saw its potential as an opera. Weinberg agreed and went on to write what he considered the best of his seven operas. The Soviet government suppressed it
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New Home for Sarasota Players
Reaching Its Centennial
By: - Feb 09th, 2026As it prepares to open a new home in Payne Park Auditorium later this year, the Sarasota Players is putting a renewed focus on the shows it stages and reconnecting with the community that has helped it near a centennial celebration.
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Love is Destiny at Frankfurt Opera
R.R.Schlater Directs Agostino Steffani
By: - Feb 08th, 2026Opera Frankfurt is mounting Amor Vien dal Destino (Love Is Destiny) by the late 17th-century composer Agostino Steffani. An Italian who masterfully blended bel canto lyricism with the German counterpoint tradition, Steffani was a major influence on Handel, who frequently glommed onto his work, sometimes quoting it directly.
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The Cherry Orchard
Marin Theatre's Take on Chekhov's Classic
By: - Feb 05th, 2026The aristocratic Liubov returns from Paris as she can't keep up with mortgage payments on her estate. The rich parvenu Lopkhin, whose family had worked the estate, has a viable plan to save Liubov and her brother financially, but it would involve destroying her beloved cherry orchard. Sometimes nostalgia gets in the way of sound thinking.
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Keith Lockhart and Boston Pops
Spring Schedule
By: - Feb 05th, 2026This season of Pops presents a lineup of today’s most compelling stars from a range of musical traditions, including Jon Batiste, Ray Chen, Jacob Collier, Ben Folds, Pink Martini, Leslie Odom, Jr., and St. Vincent join the Pops for solo performances. Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane perform a special Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennial tribute, accompanied by a jazz ensemble.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Latrine Duty with Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven
By: - Feb 05th, 2026We could eat anything on the menu. Nothing was held back from us. Whatever we wanted. Except for the ‘chitlins’ which as far I remember none of us was capable of eating.
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