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  • The Thing About Jellyfish

    Berkeley Rep's Outstanding World Premiere

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 07th, 2025

    Sixth grader Suzy loses her best friend Franny to drowning. Since Franny was an accomplished swimmer, Suzy feels that there must have been a more specific cause, which leads her on a deep dive into jellyfish research. Interesting revelations occur in a visually stunning production.

  • Barrington Stage Company 2025

    Seven Productions on Two Stages

    By: BSC - Feb 07th, 2025

    Barrington Stage Company  is pleased to announce the theatre’s 2025 season which includes seven productions, including two regional premieres and two world premieres.  “Our 2025 season is inspired by the once-and-future leaders of American theatre” commented Alan Paul.

  • Exotic Deadly: or The MSG Play

    A Japanese-American Teen Girl Confronts Challenges

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 06th, 2025

    Ami wants to be invisible, but the smelly bento box lunches she must take to school bedevil her. She is also haunted by the fact that her grandfather was a scientist at Ajinomoto where the vilified MSG was commercialized. In a hilarious Japanese anime and pop culture framework, the heroine tries to overcome obstacles.

  • Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty

    Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum

    By: CAM - Feb 06th, 2025

    Portrait of a Sculptor: Walker Hancock & Michael Lafferty features photographs inside the Gloucester studio of renowned sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) and select sculptures by Hancock. He was commissioned to complete the Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, which depicts Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Georgia law states that “the memorial to the heroes of the Confederate States of America graven upon the face of Stone Mountain shall never be altered, removed, concealed, or obscured in any fashion and shall be preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered and died in their cause.”

  • Diet and Health

    The Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Medicine

    By: Cheng Tong - Feb 04th, 2025

    The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine (Huangdi Neijing), compiled over 2,400 years ago, remains the leading foundational treatise on Traditional Chinese Medicine.  The Huangdi Neijing addresses all aspects of inner medicine and health, and is required reading for anyone interested in understanding TCM and ancient Chinese culture.

  • Steven Carter’s Eden at Yale Rep

    Long-forgotten Play

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 04th, 2025

    The play was first produced in 1976, receiving positive off-Broadway reviews and award nominations. It was part of Carter’s The Caribbean Trilogy; the other plays were Nevis Mountain Dew and Dame Lorraine. Carter died in 2020, and his plays have been seldom produced.

  • Seong-Jin Cho Records Ravel

    Released by Deutsche Grammophon

    By: BSO - Feb 04th, 2025

    Ravel: The Piano Concertos, in which the pianist is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Andris Nelsons, comes out digitally and on CD on February 21. A deluxe edition presenting the complete recordings will be issued digitally and as a 3-CD box set on May 2. Vinyl versions of the two individual albums will be released later this year. The Piano Concerto in G’s central Adagio assai is available to stream/download beginning  February 7, while the Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn will be released in advance of the deluxe edition, on March 7, the exact anniversary of Ravel’s birth. 

  • Daisy by Sean Devine

    This True Story Resonates in Today's Chilling Environment

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 02nd, 2025

    In the 1964 presidential campaign, Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency is commissioned to create an ad campaign for incumbent Lyndon Johnson. An innovative ad that ran only once on television instilled fear and is believed to have profoundly affected the election. Comparisons with today's political environment are frightful and inescapable.

  • Film at Lincoln Center Conjures Nosferatu

    Films That Inspired Robert Eggers

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 05th, 2025

    Where did Dracula, aka Count Orlok and Vlad the Impaler, a commanding figure of contemporary culture across the globe,  come from? Film at Lincoln Center answers this question.

  • Tanglewood 2025

    Best of the Berkshires

    By: BSO - Jan 30th, 2025

    In July, BSO Music Director and Head of Conducting at Tanglewood Andris Nelsons leads ten programs and two TLI/TMC Art of Conducting master classes in a schedule that shines a spotlight on a wide spectrum of musical guests and the festival’s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts at their best since 1937.   

  • Conrad Tao Alights in Carnegie Hall

    Premier Keyboard Artist Performs Debussy and His Own Works

    By: Susan Hall - Jan 30th, 2025

    Conrad Tao takes our inner ear on new journeys in a program at Carnegie Hall on January 31. The first notes we’ll hear are often said to be Claude Debussy making fun of Carl Czerny.  Czerny’s exercises are of course where most of us begin our piano journeys.  Thumping away at scales, we don’t learn to appreciate the sounds that can emerge from the instrument. We don’t coax.   We hammer.  Tao will coax sound from piano keys and Lumatone hexagons.

  • Unser Deutschlandmärchen, at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

    Our German Fairy Tale, by Hakan Savas Mican

    By: Angelika Jansen - Jan 29th, 2025

    The Turkish boy Dincer (Taner Sahintürk) is compelled to tell his life's experience in Germany when his mother Fatma (Sesede Terziyan) is laid to rest. The story comes alive on the stage of the Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, that is committed to telling political and socio-cultural stories in Germany.

  • Jaune Quick to See Smith at 85

    A Mentor and Friend

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 29th, 2025

    In 2005 Astrid and I met with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in her Corrales, New Mexico studio. Several months later she had an exhibition of new works on paper that I curated for New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University. She remained a mentor and friend with our last e mail exchange, about Katherine Porter, just a month or so ago. She has now died at 85. Jaune was a life long activist, artist and mentor to many. In 2023 she was the first Native American Artist to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Late in life she received long overdue respect and recognition.

  • Kind of Blue: Benny Andrews. Emilio Cruz, Earle M. Pilgrim and Bob Thompson

    Transcript of Panel at Northeastern University

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 23rd, 2025

    In 1986 I organized an exhibition of four African American artists who lived and worked in Provincetown. That fall Kind of Blue traveled to the gallery of Northeastern University. In Boston there was a panel discussion chaired by Edmund Barry Gaither, then the director of the National Center for African American Artists and an adjunct curator for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In addition to myself, there were two other panelists. Patricia Hills was then a professor of art history at Boston University. She has long championed issues of social justice and wrote a monograph and curated an exhibition of the work of Jacob Lawrence. Dana Chandler is an artist and activist.

  • Best of Theatre 2024

    Broadway and Connecticut

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jan 27th, 2025

    Here’s my top shows/performances in New York City in 2024.

  • Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc.

    Montserrat Gallery in Beverly

    By: Montserrat - Jan 23rd, 2025

    Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural identities. The project moves beyond “farm to table” to “Land to Land” - challenging the corporate supply chain to return to the Land, uncontaminated, from what’s taken. The artist’s project critiques poet Robert Frost’s unabashedly Colonialist poem The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.”

  • Audra McDonald on Broadway in Gypsy

    Not Her Best Role

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jan 21st, 2025

    I never thought I would have qualms about McDonald’s singing, but her classically trained voice doesn’t really work  in this production. It appears she hasn’t decided whether her Mama Rose is a belter or a more classical soprano. Technically, many of the songs find her trying to combine operatic voice with belting, or as a voice teacher would say, the transition from her chest voice to her head voice isn’t as smooth or as appropriate as it should be.

  • 9 to 5

    Broadway at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center

    By: Aaron Krause - Jan 21st, 2025

    The 2025 Broadway at LPAC season kicks off with a stirring production of "9 to 5." The professional production runs through Feb. 2. The stage musical "9 to 5" is an adaptation of the 1980 film.

  • WCMA and MOCA Collaborate on Exhibition

    Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier

    By: WCMA - Jan 22nd, 2025

    Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist, raised in a Swiss village and living between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Williamstown, MA. They work with photography, photographic and filmic archives, and video in a collaborative practice that reinterprets historical events, putting the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. They employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care to amplify the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene. 

  • John Wilson at MFA and Met

    Boston Based African American Artist

    By: MFA - Jan 21st, 2025

    Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is the largest-ever exhibition of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately 110 works in a wide range of media—drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and illustrated books—the retrospective explores how Wilson’s work speaks to shared experiences, while also displaying his personal search for identity as an artist, Black man, parent, and American.

  • MCLA Announces The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts

    By: MCLA - Jan 17th, 2025

    The Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts is made possible through the generosity of artist and author Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. This transformational gift will support the construction of the Campagna Kleefeld Center for Creativity in the Arts on the corner of Porter and Church Streets

  • Frederick Wiseman at Lincoln Center

    An American Institution Celebrated

    By: Susan Hall - Jan 19th, 2025

    Film at Lincoln Center is presenting  “Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution,” a retrospective featuring an extensive selection of films spanning decades of the filmmaker’s prolific career, all newly restored in 4K. Eleven of Wiseman’s films have been selected for the New York Film Festival since 1967. This series celebrates the long-standing relationship between FLC and this documentary filmmaker. The series will be presented from January 31 through March 5, 2025.

  • Ground/work 2025

    Outdoor Sculpture at Clark Art Intitute

    By: Clark - Jan 16th, 2025

    Curated by independent art historian Glenn Adamson, Ground/work 2025 features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists, Akiyama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Aboubakar Fofana, Hugh Hayden, Milena Naef, and Javier Senosiain that respond to the Clark’s unique setting while expressing ideas core to each artist’s individual practice.

  • Komische Oper, Berlin

    Robinson Crusoe

    By: Angelika Jansen - Jan 15th, 2025

    The concert version of the light opera by Jacques Offenbach of the Komische Oper, Berlin left wishes open for a full fledged opera performance. The stage setting, at their temporary house located at the Schiller Theater in the Bismarckstrasse in Berlin, seemed at bit crowded. Nevertheless.....

  • North Adams Artist Kelsey Shultis Showing in London

    Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 14th, 2025

    North Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery.

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