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  • Wim Wenders at Lincoln Center

    Film Festival Premieres The Tokyo Toilet

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 13th, 2023

    Wim Wenders new film, "The Tokyo Toilet," had its New York premiere at the New York Film Festival in Lincoln Center in New York. A Tokyo toilet cleaner, Hirayama, is played brilliantly and subtly by Yakusho Koji. Hirayama steps out of his small Tokyo home and looks up at the sky.  Another perfect day begins. Now. Not Next. These phrases pepper the film often. 

  • The Defiant Requiem Foundation Explores Survival

    Verdi Requirm Was Performed at Terezin

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 13th, 2023

    The Defiant Requiem Foundation, has a signature concert performance of the Verdi Requiem, as it was performed in the Terezin concentration camp over and over again. The original chorus changed constantly as members were transferred to Auschwitz.

  • Inama Releases I Palchi

    Wine from Terraces of Monte Foscarino

    By: Inama - Oct 19th, 2023

    On its third release, I Palchi 2021 follows the path of research created by the Inama family: constantly improving in order to pursue ever more ambitious goals, in search of the highest purity of fruit.

  • Lizzie – a rock concert in forty whacks

    Hartford Theatre Works

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 19th, 2023

    Historians and biographers do not agree that Lizzie, in fact, did commit the murders. They point to her uncle as having motive and opportunity, plus the fact that her father was not well-loved in the town.

  • Joyce Di Donato Teaches at Carnegie Hall

    Master Classes for Artists and Listeners Too

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 26th, 2023

    Joyce Di Donato offered three master classes at Carnegie Hall. Di Donato discussed something she learned during that long-ago City Opera performance of "Dead Man Walking." You have to leave space for the listeners to enter the music. This space is created by not answering all the questions the listening ear may have. That is something for all of us to think about – particularly people committed to the long-range success of classical music.

  • Theatre Struggles in Connecticut

    Rebound from Pandemic

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 27th, 2023

    In Connecticut, we have seen Long Wharf Theatre vacate its longtime home in New Haven; with no home, it is presenting what shows it does in a variety of mostly smaller venues.

  • Pride and Prejudice at Hartford Stage

    Disappointing Burlesque version

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 31st, 2023

    If Jane Austen is a favorite author and you have watched and enjoyed every film and TV production of Pride and Prejudice, you might think the current production at Hartford Stage would be a delight. BUT for many of you, me included, it isn’t.

  • Museum of Art and Design Burke Prize

    Selva Aparicio 2023 Winner

    By: MAD - Nov 02nd, 2023

    The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) announces Selva Aparicio as the winner of the 2023 Burke Prize. Established in 2018, the Museum’s biennial prize honoring excellence in contemporary craft is named for craft collectors Marian and Russell Burke. It awards an unrestricted $50,000 to an artist aged 45 or under working in the United States.

  • Artist Carol K. Brown is Something Else

    At Nohra Haime Gallery in New York

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 03rd, 2023

    Carol K. Brown’s latest work "Someplace Else" consists of watercolor paintings and a series of drawings titled "Modified Husband." This exhibition is a culmination of Brown’s desire for detail, layered with humorous subject matter.

  • The Elixir of Love

    Donizetti's Frothy Comedy at San Francisco Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Nov 21st, 2023

    Poor Nemorino is in love with his employer, Adina, but she has other things in mind. Along comes Dr. Dulcamara, an itinerant snake oil salesman, who has just the love potion that will make Nemorino irresistible to Adina. Of course, it's really red wine. Frivolity ensues and all live happily ever after.

  • The Berlin Diaries

    Rolling World Premiere at South Florida's Theatre Lab

    By: Aaron Krause - Nov 29th, 2023

    As part of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, The Berlin Diaries is experiencing its stage debut as an impressive fully-staged production at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton. "The Berlin Diaries," by Andrea Stolowitz, is not just another Holocaust play. Instead, it has an unorthodox structure and seems almost like a detective story.

  • In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now

    Minneapolis Museum of Art

    By: MIA - Dec 04th, 2023

    Presenting over 150 photographs of, by, and for Indigenous people, “In Our Hands” welcomes all to see through the lens held by Native photographers.

  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

    A Lighthearted Look at the Obsessiveness of Middle School Geeks

    By: Victor Cordell - Dec 04th, 2023

    We meet a diverse group of young teens bound by a common skill – spelling - and a common goal – winning.  Spelling excellence is a grinding and lonely pursuit.  All who compete in this Bee are nerds, but each in their own way, and each is motivated by a different set of circumstances.  The audience will recall kids they’ve known and enjoy a light-hearted and entertaining look at growing up.

  • Clark Makes Offer You Cannot Refuse

    Free Admission January Through March

    By: Clark - Dec 05th, 2023

    The Clark Art Institute will offer free admission for all visitors from January through March 2024. In its second year, the “Free for Three” program is part of the Institute’s ongoing effort to expand awareness of its programming and to welcome new visitors.  

  • Einstein at Princeton

    Opera Seen Through Domestic Prism

    By: Victor Cordell - Dec 08th, 2023

    In a compact manner, the libretto demonstrates the idealism of Einstein contrasted with the pragmatism of the women around him, while the story line covers political and social commentary; God and existence; the enormity of the creation of the atomic bomb; and more. Light touches and excerpts from other composers brighten the proceedings.

  • Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA

    And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Mar 26th, 2026

    The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026

  • Death of a Salesman

    Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 07th, 2024

    Palm Beach Dramaworks delivers an award-worthy production of "Death of a Salesman." The company's mounting of Arthur Miller's masterpiece runs through April 20.

  • Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix

    Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 22nd, 2022

    Julia Bullock has made a big opera career outside conventional wisdom. At the Aix Festival in Provence this year she sang Olivier Messiaen's Harawi, a challenging work to which she brings unusual insights.

  • The Nose at the Munich Opera

    Russian Dissident Kirill Serebrennikov

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 21st, 2022

    Kirill Serebrennikov, the brilliant Russian director, brought The Nose to Munich via Zoom. He is detained by the Russian government in Moscow. The production is superb.

  • Nan and the Lower Body by Jessica Dickey

    TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 18th, 2022

    The play opens with Dr. Pap addressing a classroom – the audience.  The content of the lecture is unimportant, yet those brief moments absolutely hook the viewer.  There is no waiting to get involved with the story line. 

  • La Belle et la Bête by Philip Glass

    Opera Adapted from Cocteau

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 15th, 2022

    n Philip Glass’s adaptation of a trilogy of Cocteau films to opera (the others being “Orphée” and “Les Enfants Terribles,” both previously produced by Opera Parallèle), the composer saved his most imaginative treatment for this most uncommon love story. 

  • Jeremy Denk and Maria Wloszczowska

    The 92nd Street Y Presents Bach

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 09th, 2022

    Jeremy Denk is a world class pianist and writer. Recently he performed Bach violin sonatas with a magnificent young violinist, Maria Wloszczowska at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York. 

  • Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group

    Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 02nd, 2022

    Covid delayed the opening of Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group by two years. It was worth the wait with a tasty buffet dinner on opening night at Berkshire Art Museum in downtown North Adams. The former church houses the Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation, Most of the church displays a permanent installation of his work. The three levels of the tower galleries has a lively display of works by diners and artists.

  • Eva Luna Dramatized at Repertorio Espanol

    Storytelling Honored on Stage

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 30th, 2022

    Repertorio Espanol presents big theater in a compact space. Productions are often not only intense but sprawling in their content. The trick of compacting large stories in a small space is one of the company’s specialties. Eva Luna, Caridad Svich’s apt dramatization of Isabel Allende's big third novel, gives ample opportunity to display these skills.

  • Bousquet Jazz Festival

    Thursday, June 30

    By: Jazz - Jun 27th, 2022

    First annual Bousquet Fazz Festival is free. Thursday June 30 at the base of Bousquet Ski slopes in Pittsfield.

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