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Spectacular Gift to Clark Art Institute
311 Works of Art and Endoment for New Wing and Curator
By: - Oct 28th, 2024The 331 works of art in the gift include 132 paintings, 130 sculptures, thirty-nine drawings, and thirty decorative arts objects, creating an important addition to the Clark’s holdings. The entirety of the Tavitian gift will be on view when the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing opens. Following an introductory presentation at the time of the new wing’s opening, the works on paper included in the gift will be made available for study purposes and be presented in periodic displays. The majority of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects will be shown on a continual basis, both in the new Tavitian Wing and in the Clark’s permanent collection galleries.
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The Thanksgiving Play
Altarena Playhouse Explores Marginalization of Native Americans
By: - Oct 27th, 2024Logan receives a grant to create a "First Thanksgiving" play for schools. She finds that the woman she hired as "the Native American" in the small cast is anything but. How should she proceed with political correctness when she lacks a Native American voice in a project for Native American Heritage Month? Farcical situations ensue.
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Jersey Boys
ACT-CT in Ridgefield,
By: - Oct 29th, 2024The book – the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is one of the things that sets it above many jukebox shows. Each of the original members of the group narrates a part of the story. This allows for different perspectives on the group’s history and personalities.
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Fallen Angels
Aurora Theatre Makes the Most of Thin Noel Coward Play
By: - Oct 26th, 2024As their husbands depart for an overnight golf outing, Julia and Jane find that a French lover from before their marriages is coming to London. Both women have settled into marital boredom and are tantalized by the prospect of reviving their earlier passions. The playwright exposes class and gender issues amidst continuing laughter.
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Henze's Prince of Homburg in Frankfurt
Important Composer Gets a Perfect Production
By: - Oct 22nd, 2024Contemporary composers scramble for relevant subject matter. Opera companies overlook repertoire which is excellent and seldom staged. As the 100th anniversary of Hans Werner Hene's birth approaches in 2026, his work, produced in timeless fashion, offers fresh opportunities. Frankfurt Oper shows the way.
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Tristan & Isolde
San Francisco Opera's Fine Production of Wagner
By: - Oct 25th, 2024When composing this opera, Richard Wagner was obsessed with love fanned by his infatuation for the married poet Mathilde Wesendonck and death driven by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. The two existential forces are melded in the opera's thematic thrust "liebestod" (love-death), which is also the dominant leitmotif in the music. While the orchestral score soars, the dramatic action is grounded, yet it remains a pioneer of modern music.
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Frederick Douglass Comes to Hudson Hall
Anthony Knight Jr. Combines Negro Spirituals with Douglass' Text
By: - Oct 25th, 2024Hudson Hall in the Hudson Hall Opera House will present No Cowards in Our Band, an intertwined stage piece that combines nine spirituals with the reciting of original text by Frederick Douglass. In this drama, an aging and contemplative Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). considers the social, economic, and political ramifications of slavery and the Civil War and their impact on the future of the United States.
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No Love Songs
Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre in Chester
By: - Oct 19th, 2024During the 80 minutes or so, we hear 11 songs. Most are duets between the two characters – Jessie and Lana. Jessie and Lana are fictionalized versions of Falconer and Wilde and their story. From the first meeting, when Lana goes to a bar and meets the older Jessie through a courtship of sorts, the birth of their son, and Jessie’s departure on a US tour with a band, where they are the backup/opening act.
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Yaga
Marin Theatre's U.S. Premiere of Multi-genre Play
By: - Oct 17th, 2024The tradition of Baba Yaga, an old haggard witch, exists in many Slavic cultures. Playwright Kat Sandler integrates witchcraft themes into a comic detective mystery with three actors playing 14 parts.
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Angels in America - Part 2 - Perestroika
The Closing Episodes of Epic Drama of 1980s
By: - Oct 16th, 2024Part 2 - Perestroika provides closure on many of the relationships and issues raised in Part 1 - Millennium Approaches. Thematically, it invokes the need for change in order to go forward and thrive, rejecting the resistant bastions of vested interest - entrenched religions and conservative politics.
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Angels in America - Part 1 - Millenium Approaches
Classic Returns to Bay Area Home
By: - Oct 01st, 2024Tony Kushner's award-winning two-part classic centering on homosexuality and AIDS during the epidemic in the 1980s is given a magnificent production by Oakland Theater Project with taut direction and exceptional acting. Fiction that is anchored in reality with one real historical figure, also drifts into fantasy. Its powerful treatment finds corollaries in today's world.
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Steel Magnolias
Art Buzz Theatrics and Florida Theatrical Events
By: - Oct 12th, 2024A funny and touching co-production of the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias produces tears, laughter. The mounting in Ft. Lauderdale runs through Oct. 20. Art Buzz Theatrics and Florida Theatrical Events are the co-producers.
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Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones
Now ar Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 15th, 2024The first act seemed to drag – this was the result of the overly slow development of the story by the playwright Kenneth Jones and the pacing by director Todd L. Underwood. The pacing needed to be picked up
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Putting it Together
Sondheim Musical Revue
By: - Oct 15th, 2024Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts stages "Putting it Together." The show is a Sondheim revue featuring many of the late great lyricist/composer's works. The production runs through Oct. 20 in Pembroke Pines, near Ft. Lauderdale.
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Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain
Yin and Yang at Eclipse Gallery
By: - Oct 06th, 2024Upon initial exposure the work of Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain could not be more different,. With further contemplation, however, there are many commonalities. They share an experimental and adventurous approach to materials, in her case collaged paintings, and in his assembled sculptures from found objects. Both artists evoke narrative in their work. Her's are inspired by dreams and night mares while his entail the darkest of humor.
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Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
NYU's Grey Art Museum
By: - Oct 06th, 2024In her candid memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye!—recently translated into English—Weill described herself as having a "difficult personality." She wasn’t wrong. Her sharp tongue and uncompromising attitude were well known. Picasso biographer John Richardson even described her as a "peppery, homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls." Yet it was her fiery personality and unrivaled intuition for spotting talent that made her a key figure.
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Almodovar's First English Film at Lincoln Center
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore Enthrall
By: - Oct 05th, 2024Pedro Almodovar will receive the 2025 Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center next spring. Some say he cannot make a bad movie. Certainly the painterly frames of each scene in his new film,The Room Next Door, are worthy of inclusion in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA. Is their purpose, in this film, to distance us in time from the subject of the film, euthanasia?
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Anora at Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival
Sean Baker's Film Won the Palme d'or at Cannes
By: - Oct 03rd, 2024Sean Baker, who wrote and directed Anora, a Main Slate film at the Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival, pleaded at Cannes where he won the Palme d’Or in the spring, for compassion and support for sex workers. He does not see his film as mainstream, but you may if you give it a try. It is moving, fun, surprising and, yes, sympathetic.
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Benny Andrews: Trouble
Ruth Arts Foundation in Wilwaukee
By: - Oct 04th, 2024Created in close dialogue with the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation, Trouble combines Benny Andrews’ (1930–2006) extensive archive with a selection of his paintings and works on paper to reflect the fullness of the artist’s practice, life, and advocacy, and the ways they are intertwined.
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Primary Trust at La Jolla Playhouse
2024 Pulitzer Play by Eboni Smith
By: - Oct 07th, 2024The La Jolla Playhouse presented the West Coast premiere of playwright Eboni Smith’s Primary Trust, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Thirty-eight-year-old Kenneth, played by Caleb Eberhardt, lives in Cranberry, NY, a small town a short ride from Rochester. Kenneth’s small town consists of the usual bowling alley, a few banks, a church, and a smattering of small family-owned businesses. His single mom died when he was ten which led to a life growing up in foster homes
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Diddy
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Power of the People: Art and Democracy
Agit Prop at the MFA
By: - Oct 02nd, 2024Organized against the backdrop of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents diverse perspectives on democracy through 175 works of art that include ceramics, coins, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and fashion
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The Weir By Conor McPherson
It Was a Stormy Night in the Pub
By: - Sep 29th, 2024Regarded as the most popular of McPherson's, plays a generation on The Weir is being given an intimate, lively production, directed by Eric Hill. Its trope, locals gathered in a small pub in a remote village verges on a cliché of Irish culture. The one act play conflates copious amounts of “small” shots of whiskey accompanied by pints of Harp or Guinness. As we snidely learn the real men drink stout.
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Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center Theater
Playwright Ayad Akhtar Tackles AI
By: - Oct 01st, 2024Robert Downey Jr.. is everything you could hope for and more in this New York stage debut as the title character in Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal. Downey started his career playing a dog in Pound directed by his father. Familiar to filmgoers, his physical presence on stage at the Lincoln Center Theater combines his casual warmth with an edge demanded by a role in which his character may well have precipitated a suicide.
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The Daughter of the Regiment
Livermore Valley Opera's Comic Charmer
By: - Sep 30th, 2024An orphan Marie was adopted by a French army regiment as an infant. She promised to marry only a member of the regiment but falls in love with an outsider. Complications ensue as she learns that she was born to a marquise and is spirited away to live a noble life and have an arranged marriage within her new station. But this is a comedy. Do you really think that's going to happen?
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