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Murder on the Orient Express
Orinda Company Makes Good with Agatha Christie Gem
By: - Jun 08th, 2025The first-class carriage in the westbound train from Istanbul is filled with diverse travelers. One of them is drugged and stabbed to death. Hercule Poirot is on the scene and systematically solves the mystery.
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Guntram Performed by American Symphony Orchestra
First opera of Richard Strauss
By: - Jun 08th, 2025Leon Botstein, the ever-adventuresome conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, brought Richard Strauss's first opera, Guntram, to Carnegie Hall. This early work by Strauss showcases a prolifically productive composer whose treasured operas and symphonic works would eventually become cornerstones of concert halls worldwide.
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Fly by Night Dance Soars in New York
Charming and Funny Extension of Dance Movement
By: - Jun 08th, 2025Fly By Night Dance presented its annual New York Aerial Dance Festival at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. Founded by Julie Lutwick, the group is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern dance. This program demonstrated how storytelling can be enhanced through trapeze work, live music, and the recitation of poignant historic poems.
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Harvey Milk Reimagined
Opera Parallele Co-Commission of Revision Hits the Mark
By: - Jun 02nd, 2025Harvey Milk became the first elected openly gay city official in the United States. Along with the notoriety, he became an icon and a victim of assassination. His story is told in a gripping revision of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie's 1995 opera.
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From The Dishwasher Dialogues
Leroy Haynes, Charles Bukowski and Simone De Beauvoir
By: - Jun 01st, 2025Leroy’s silent advice was always there, don’t get too comfy, son, life’s tough and it’s not going to get easier. Unlike Manhattan where I had previously lived, Paris, was not menacing. Never did I sense that there were places or quartiers where I shouldn’t venture.
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Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground
Launches Summer Season at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 04th, 2025A panel of historians, in the New York Time Magazine, have positioned Dwight D. Eisenhower at 22. That’s one behind Andrew Johnson and staring up at Chester A. Arthur. It's 1962 and he's writing his memoir. A projection at the end of the compelling one man play by Richard Hellensen, starring Tony winner, John Rubenstein, has him rising in periodic polls to #5 in 2023.
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Ragtime at Goodspeed
Not To Be Missed
By: - Jun 01st, 2025A strength of this production is the outstanding performances of the leading characters, Michael Wordly as Coalhouse Walker, Mami Parris as Mother, and David R Gordon as Tateh; each truly embodies the role and has the vocal chops to handle the music.
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Barringtpn Stage Update
Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind”
By: - May 30th, 2025Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind” on Joy Machine Records. The track is the first single of a two song EP fuzzy (Barrington Stage Company Sessions), featuring music and lyrics by Van Dyke & Talbott and performed by Cass Morgan and John Cariani.
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Beauford Delaney at the Drawing Center
In the Medium of Life
By: - May 30th, 2025Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is excited to announce the opening of In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in SoHo. Curated by Executive Director Laura Hoptman and Assistant Curator Rebecca DiGiovanna, the exhibition features approximately ninety works on paper from each period of Delaney’s career, offering a rare survey of his stylistic evolution
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Paris, Two
Undocumented Getting a Real Job
By: - May 26th, 2025In the 1970s the artists Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi were undocumented living under the radar in Paris. They were paid in cash with tips by a friendly bistro. It was just enough to scrape by. This chapter of Dishwasher Dialogues recounts efforts to get “real jobs," secure mail boxes and bank accounts.
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Angel's Share at the Greenwood Cemetery
Cocktails, Comestibles & Callas
By: - May 29th, 2025Impresario Andrew Ousley has opened up the world of classical music to a new generation—one often untutored and underexposed—by presenting it in some of the most unexpected venues: churches and cemeteries.
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Dangerous Instruments
World Premiere in South Florida
By: - May 29th, 2025"Dangerous Instruments," a play about a mother trying to get her son help, is receiving its world premiere in a fine production by Palm Beach Dramaworks. The play, by Gina Montet, runs through June 1 in West Palm Beach. Palm Beach Dramaworks featured the piece in one of its recent new play festivals.
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Harmony and Disharmony
Understanding Evil in Daoism
By: - May 27th, 2025Rather than focusing on inherent “evil,” Daoism often addresses what we might perceive as evil in terms of disharmony, imbalance, or deviation from the natural Way (Dao). Actions or situations perceived as evil often arise when individuals or systems operate out of alignment with the natural flow, driven by excessive desire, forced action, or unnatural striving (Wei).
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Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) Spotlight Series
Past, Present, and Future: What Is Music For
By: - May 28th, 2025BSO collaborator Yo-Yo Ma, encompasses four talks and four musical performances with an array of compelling scholars and performers (Aug. 2–12). The annual Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) Spotlight Series this year features: Ma and historian Heather Cox Richardson (Aug. 2), art critic Sebastian Smee and musicians Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily (Aug. 9), and violinist Vijay Gupta, journalist Steve Lopez, and Juilliard’s Lesley Rosenthal (Aug. 23).
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John Dunnigan at Gallery NAGA
Possible Necessities
By: - May 28th, 2025Gallery NAGA is pleased to announce its season closing exhibition, "Possible Necessities," featuring new studio furniture by renowned artist John Dunnigan. This marks Dunnigan's first solo exhibition at Gallery NAGA. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Glenn Adamson, Curator at Large, Vitra Design Museum.
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Berkshire Arts and Culture Alliance
Advocates for Economic, Tourism, and Infrastructure Needs
By: - May 27th, 2025The leaders of ten arts and culture institutions from across Berkshire County have convened the Berkshire Arts and Culture Alliance (BACA) to advocate for the economic, tourism, and infrastructure needs of arts and culture organizations in the county.
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Otello
West Bay Conquers Notoriously Difficult Verdi Masterpiece
By: - May 26th, 2025Many opera aficionados argue that Arrigo Boito's libretto improves on the Shakespeare source material. Machinations by Iago, one of the best developed and vile villains in literature, wreak tragedy upon Otello and Desdemona in response to Iago's being passed over for a promotion. Verdi's music is both sublime and powerful.
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Major Installation by Jeffrey Gibson at Mass MoCA
A Prime Example of DEI Programming That Trump Hopes to Eliminate
By: - May 22nd, 2025"Power Full Because We Are Different" is a monumental installation by Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson. The inspiration and intent of the project is to articulate and express the concept of the “two-spirit,” a third gender that is both—and neither—male and female and is embraced by many Indigenous cultures. Significantly the far right regime of President Donald Trump has rescinded a $50,000 NEA grant for this ambitious and expansive project.
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The Cake
Values Clash in City Lights' Masterful Take on Fine Dramedy
By: - May 19th, 2025Jen returns to North Carolina to plan her wedding with Macy. What Jen doesn't expect is that bakery-owning, cake-maker Della, who had been Jen's proxy mother, would not want to make her wedding cake because her religion doesn't support same sex marriage. Many social issues are uncovered along the way.
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Heartbeat Opera Shapeshifts Faust
Gounod's Opera Updated
By: - May 20th, 2025Heartbeat Opera is a crown jewel in New York’s opera diadem. Their productions make opera accessible and compelling to contemporary audiences by breathing new life into beloved classics. Faust, their current production running through May 25, is no exception—it’s a bold, inventive take that succeeds on many fronts.
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Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World
Fall at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - May 19th, 2025This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition that explores the fashion, art and creative philosophy of Singaporean designer and visual artist Andrew Gn. Making its North American debut, Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World illuminates the contemporary designer’s life and legacy, showcasing nearly 100 stunning works, including clothing, accessories, original illustrations and digital media.
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The Good Dog Foundation Gala
For a Good Cause
By: - May 24th, 2025The evening promised not only an opportunity to support the foundation’s impactful work, but also a chance to mingle, pet, and cuddle the foundation’s beloved therapy dogs.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Seeing the World Through the Eyes of an Autistic
By: - May 17th, 2025Autistic fifteen-year-old Christopher tries to solve the mystery of the killing of a dog. Along the way, we learn about his character, his abilities, and of his relationship with his parents. A splendid production by San Francisco Playhouse brings out the strength of story.
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From The Dishwasher Dialogues
Parisians Sans Haute Couture
By: - May 18th, 2025Down and out in Paris in the 1970s Greg LIght and Rafael Mahdavi scraped by as kitchen help at the popular and colorful Chez Haynes. Their self published book about their adventures of surviving down and out in Paris, Dishwasher Dialogues, has become a hit. That inspired them to post a weekly blog. We are launching them as our Parisian correspondents. This blast concerns how the homeless survive harsh winters.
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Made in the Mill
Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - May 16th, 2025Resident Artists and Authors from the Eclipse Mill show their work during Berkshire Art Week.
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