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  • James Darrah At Boston Lyric Opera

    Creating Streamed Opera

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 25th, 2020

    Boston Lyric Opera, ever on the lookout for startling innovations that work, has hired Darrah to produce a stop motion feature-length animated version of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher.

  • James Darrah At Boston Lyric Opera

    Creating Streamed Productions

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 24th, 2020

    Boston Lyric Opera, ever on the lookout for startling innovations that work, has hired Darrah to produce a stop motion feature-length animated version of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher.

  • Edward Smadone's Once and Again

    A Recording for Our Time

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 23rd, 2020

    Edward Smaldone is a contemporary composer of classical music. His distinctive textures include unusual combinations of instruments, odd beats, counterpoint and rich harmonics. These elements blend but do not merge. Rough edges combined with smooth melodic lines are ear catching. Lines often stretch wide and giant leaps leave gaping spaces between notes.  

  • Indigenous Artist Bob Haozous

    The Racism Shrine in Santa Fe

    By: Joanie Griffin - Nov 23rd, 2020

    The son of famed artist Allan Houser, Haozous has drawn inspiration from his Apache culture, Indigenous and world art, and from his father’s artworks. “I’ve wanted to make this statement for many years,” said Haozous, artist and Executive Director of the Allan Houser Foundation.

  • Hancock Shaker Village Thanksgiving

    Celebrating a Year Like None Other

    By: Jennifer Trainer Thompson - Nov 23rd, 2020

    Hancock Shaker Village felt like a home-away-from-home this year. In a year when we are counting our heroes, the Village has had many.

  • The Last Vermeer

    Art of Forgery

    By: Jack Lyons - Nov 21st, 2020

    “The Last Vermeer”, a TriStar Pictures film based on the book “The Man Who Made Vermeers” by Jonathan Lopez, opened in over 800 ‘live’ theatres on November 20, 2020; centers around one such court case and trial reparation event in the Netherlands in 1945. 

  • Bard Conservatory Orchestra Features Wesley Sprott

    Fanfares, Serenades, Concertina

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 20th, 2020

    Count on Bard to bring us unexpected, deserving programs concert after concert.  Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgigues opened this program.  The fanfares were conceived as part of Tomasi’s opera Don Juan de Manara. They premiered as a stand alone a decade before the opera opened in Munich. What a splendid work.

  • Barrington Stage Company Reading

    By Pittsfield-based Author Ty Allan Jackson.

    By: BSC - Nov 20th, 2020

    Barrington Stage Company will present a free virtual reading of The Supadupa Kid 2: Move, the action/superhero book by Pittsfield-based author Ty Allan Jackson. The reading will feature a cast of local youth and parents from the Berkshires and NY State Capital Region. Julianne Boyd will direct the reading, which will begin streaming free on December 3. 

  • Kev Berry at The Tank

    A Hefty, Engaging Monologue

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 19th, 2020

    Kev Berry is an award-winning playwright and a superb monologist.  In Harsh Cacophonies I and II,, he is directed by his usual collaborator, Alex Tobey. The monologue was created in three separate pieces, which can be performed as stand alones.  The three are joined for this production and work well together.  Two hours fly by, in part because Berry is in a manic state. His speech and stories are always clear, but often rush.  This locates us in the urgent terrain from which his stories grow.

  • Clark Art Institute Free Day

    First Sunday December 6

    By: Clark - Nov 19th, 2020

    The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, December 6, with a day celebrating music. Admission to the galleries is free all day.

  • The Orchestra Now at Bard

    Chamber Ensembles Intrigue

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 19th, 2020

    Bard’s The Orchestra Now (TON) gives live performances in the time of Covid. Recently they performed a challenging and revealing program in Annandale, NY. Selections were made with attention to the number of instrumentalists required and ability to social distance on stage.

  • Home for the Holidays

    A Series of Plays Presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks

    By: Aaron Krause - Nov 18th, 2020

    Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida will present a virtual holiday season of plays. The South Florida theater company will offer Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The plays will premiere on Mondays later this month.

  • Shaker Village Contest

    Bake the Round Barn

    By: Shaker - Nov 17th, 2020

    Get creative in the kitchen. All submissions will be exhibited during Hancock Holidays on Saturday, December 12. Winners receive free membership to the Village and kitchen swag from Shaker Mercantile.

  • Fire at Jacob's Pillow

    Doris Duke Theatre Lost

    By: Pillow - Nov 17th, 2020

    Today, November 17, there was a fire on the campus of Jacob's Pillow in Becket. The Doris Duke Theatre is lost. " We are grateful for the outpouring of support from around the world we have already received. We will rebuild,” says Pamela Tatge, Jacob’s Pillow Artistic & Executive Director.

  • Gardner Museum

    Expands Weekend Hours

    By: Gardner - Nov 17th, 2020

    Gardner Museum expands weekend hours. Vistors must reserve tickets in advance.

  • Margaret Swan: Lift

    Boston Sculptors Gallery

    By: BSG - Nov 14th, 2020

    Margaret Swan’s Lift, on view at Bostin Sculptors Gallery, December 9th to January 24th, features a new body of work exploring forces of nature in relation to structures that harness their power. The works are inspired by the rigging of sailing vessels,

  • Playwrite Israel Horovitz at 81

    Co Founded Gloucester Stage Company

    By: GSC - Nov 12th, 2020

    Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.

  • Sounds of Broadway

    Online Radio Station plays Theater Music 24/7

    By: Aaron Krause - Nov 11th, 2020

    A 24/7 online radio station plays the music of Broadway, Off-Broadway, the London stage, and much more. Connecticut Theater Critics Circle President and American Theatre Critics Association member Stuart Brown founded "Sounds of Broadway" in March 2019. Brown said he believes in engaging with listeners. In addition to operating his radio station, Brown is also a theater critic and a university administrator.

  • In Session

    Panels on Anti Racism in Museums

    By: MoCA - Nov 11th, 2020

    MASS MoCA and the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at MCLA are launching In Session, a series of four panel discussions on anti-racist work in museums, streamed live on MASS MocA's YouTube channel and Facebook page beginning on Thursday, December 10, at 6pm EST with upcoming dates to be announced soon.

  • Young Musicians Tune Out Covid

    At The Monmouth Conservatory of Music

    By: Jessica Robinson - Nov 10th, 2020

    Where once technology was thought to be the death knell of human social interaction, it is now bringing us together. During this pandemic, arts institutions worldwide have been regrouping and finding ways to keep going virtually. The Monmouth Conservatory of Music is no exception. Living in this altered reality, unable to gather in-person as they normally would, the school has gone all-out to ensure the beat goes on for its young musicians (some as young as 5!)

  • Licensing Available for Trilingual Our Town

    Miami New Drama Premiered Production in 2017.

    By: Aaron Krause - Nov 07th, 2020

    The script for a trilingual production of Our Town is available for licensing. 'Concord Theatricals has acquired licensing rights. Miami New Drama commissioned the adaptation and staged the world premiere in 2017.

  • 5th EIBAB Book Art Biennial, 2020

    And a Short History of Artists Books

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Nov 06th, 2020

    The Book as Art throughout the Centuries has led to a resurgence of artists creating Book Art in the time of eBooks. As an artistic discipline it has only been 70 years since its acceptance. The 5th European International Book Art Exhibition, 2020, celebrated the art form in the Karolyi Castle of Carei, Romania.

  • Controversial Philip Guston Show Rescheduled

    To Open at the MFA on May 1, 2022

    By: Matthew Teitelbaum - Nov 05th, 2020

    Postponed Philp Guston exhibition rescheduled. The first of four venues will be the Museum of Fine Arts. It opens on May 1, 2022 and continue through that September 11. MFA director, Matthew Teiltelbaum, shares thoughts about the decision to postpone the controversial exhibition.

  • HBO’s Coastal Elites

    New York City’s Public Theater.

    By: Edward Rubin - Nov 05th, 2020

    Another pre-and post-COVID-19 slanted offering, muchly peppered with condemnation of Trump and the current administration, was presented one time only this past September. HBO’s Coastal Elites was originally written by playwright and novelist Paul Rudnick, intended to be performed at New York City’s Public Theater.

  • Woodie King Jr. Wraps Up Octoberfest

    Stories About the Old Days by Bill Harris

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Nov 03rd, 2020

    Stories About The Old Days closes this delightful retrospective with a nostalgic reflection on the meaning of faith, art and friendship. Richardson-Jackson's direction provides an evocatively genuine space as the light filters through the red and gold stained glass windows of an old church. This two-person piece, is atmospheric, a feat which masterfully conquers the restrictions of the “zoom” style presentation.

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