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New Federal Theater Telling Tales
Woodie King Jr. Directs Wesley Brown's PLay
By: - Nov 02nd, 2023The New Federal Theater is producing a brilliant production of Wesley Brown’s play, Telling Tales Out of School. A quartet of famous and not-so-famous writers from the Harlem Renaissance, all women, three Black and one white, attend the funeral of Alain Locke.
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Artist Carol K. Brown is Something Else
At Nohra Haime Gallery in New York
By: - Nov 03rd, 2023Carol 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.
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Pride and Prejudice at Hartford Stage
Disappointing Burlesque version
By: - Oct 31st, 2023If 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.
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I Love a Piano
Irving Berlin Musical Revue at South Florida's Wick Theatre
By: - Oct 31st, 2023A stirring production of "I Love a Piano" is playing at Boca Raton's Wick Theatre in South Florida. The production runs through Nov. 12. Triple threat performers and backstage artists shine.
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Sunset Boulevard Disappoints
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - Nov 01st, 2023It is disappointing to find the current production of Sunset Boulevard not living up to that standard.
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Wenner Is a Loser
Former gatekeeper to Rolling Stone and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
By: - Oct 30th, 2023As co-founder (with Ralph Gleason) of the most influential rock and popular culture magazine of its era, Jann S. Wenner is anointed and had the platform to make Zeus-like Olympian statements. But pure ego consumes his assumption that his short list of “friends” represents “the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time.” The seven that he crowned in his book The Masters are all white, straight and male.
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The Emissary
Opera Parallele's World Premiere of Hands-On-Opera With Environmental Focus
By: - Oct 28th, 2023In this family-oriented opera, Japan has endured an environmental catastrophe that isolates it from the rest of the world. Children are more feeble than the aged. Despite his prognosis, the young Mumei is optimistic and gives cheer to his great-grandfather Yoshiro.
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The Fall Jazz Sprawl
Music in the Berkshires
By: - Oct 30th, 2023Berkshires Jazz, Inc. brings the legendary Django Festival Allstars to the area on Sunday evening. Nov. 12, for an 8pm concert at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (Barrington Stage’s facility at 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield). It’s the only New England appearance of this remarkable group, who will be en route to their 5-day residency at the annual Django Reinhardt New York Festival at Birdland.
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Theatre Struggles in Connecticut
Rebound from Pandemic
By: - Oct 27th, 2023In 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.
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50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions
Clark Art Institute
By: - Oct 26th, 2023In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center, the Clark Art Institute presents a richly varied selection of British works on paper acquired over the last fifty years. 50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions opens on November 18, 2023 and is on view through February 11, 2024 in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery, located in the Manton Research Center.
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Joyce Di Donato Teaches at Carnegie Hall
Master Classes for Artists and Listeners Too
By: - Oct 26th, 2023Joyce 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.
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Mondrian at the MFA
Major Bequest from Maria and Conrad Janis
By: - Oct 24th, 2023A majority of the works in Mondrian: Foundations are drawn from a gift to the MFA from Maria and Conrad Janis by and through the Janis Living Trust. In addition to 34 paintings, drawings and watercolors by Mondrian—24 of which are on view in the exhibition
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Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi
At Yale Rep
By: - Oct 25th, 2023The play is set in Iran, covering about 15 years in the lives of five women. It is 1978, as the protests that led to the overthrow of the Shah and the institution of the Islamic Republic of Iran were beginning. It takes through to 1991. (Under the Shah, Iran had been moving toward a more western culture with traditional Islamic clothing for women discouraged and increasing educational and professional opportunities for women.)
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Handel at the Hudson Opera House
Rondelina Directed by R. B. Schlather Goes Local
By: - Oct 25th, 2023The future of classical musical performance in America may well be local. One marker of the trend is the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, New York. They are currently producing Handel's Rondelinda.
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Krymov Continues at La Mama
Russian Director Stirs up Theater
By: - Oct 23rd, 2023There is new a theater in town, have you noticed? Krymov Lab NYC was started in 2022 by the prominent Russian director in exile Dmitry Krymov, with a residency in LaMama Experimental Theatre Club in East Village.
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
First Sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" at Altarena Playhouse
By: - Oct 22nd, 2023The homely but whip smart Mary is the middle sister of five. Unmarried; without a dowry; and at risk of being dispossessed from her family home when her father dies, a suitable marital match would be welcomed. Newly title young duke, Arthur de Bourgh, is visiting for the holidays. While he and Mary share interests, he does have baggage.
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The Crossing Named Ensemble of the Year
Special Choir Honored by Musical America
By: - Oct 22nd, 2023The Crossing has been named Musical America's 2024 Ensemble of the Year. Musical America's article states: "The Crossing is one of the most innovative choirs on the planet. Not only are they committed to issues of social justice, but the music they sing is brand spanking new. Under conductor Donald Nally, their performances have increasingly embraced theatrical elements, while their recordings have notched up a staggering three Grammy wins in under 20 years."
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Without You
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical "Rent"
By: - Oct 20th, 2023Anthony Rapp revives his 2013 one-man show, supported by a five-piece rock band. He shares vignettes about the launch of the 1996 rock musical "Rent," singing songs from the musical as well as his own compositions. But his real emphasis is on the deaths of two people close to him. The creator of "Rent," Jonathan Larson died unexpectedly after the dress rehearsal to "Rent," while Rapp's loving mother suffered decline before her death from cancer.
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Lizzie – a rock concert in forty whacks
Hartford Theatre Works
By: - Oct 19th, 2023Historians 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.
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Sumo at the La Jolla Playhouse
Lisa Sanaya Dring's Play on Wrestling
By: - Oct 18th, 2023Lisa Sanaya Dring’s "Sumo," playing at La Jolla Playhouse, tells the story of six sumo wrestlers living and training at an elite facility in Tokyo.
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Eric ‘Enrico’ Lamet at 93
Beloved Member of Berkshire International Club
By: - Oct 17th, 2023At 93 Eric 'Enrico' Lumet lived a long and remarkable life. Brilliant. witty and talented he would belt out arias. Born in Austria and interned in Mussolini's Italy he wrote two books about that childhood experience with his mother. Denied education by the Nazis he was home schooled and tutored. He spoke five languages which he used when he and his wife "Cookie" traveled extensively. He was a much admired member of the Berkshire International Club.
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Wines from Alsace
In a Challenging Season High Hopes for 2023
By: - Oct 20th, 2023For many regions, 2023 was a difficult vintage, torn between heat waves often coupled with heavy rainfall, and drastic drought. In view of this record, Alsace is in a privileged position, and 2023, at a time when the wines are still fermenting (the harvest ended on Thursday, October 12), looks like a miraculous vintage.
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Inama Releases I Palchi
Wine from Terraces of Monte Foscarino
By: - Oct 19th, 2023On 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.
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Lohengrin
A Compelling but Foreboding Realization by San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 17th, 2023Within Wagner’s canon, "Lohengrin" represents the apotheosis of his Romantic period and the launch point for his magnum opus, the four-opera music drama, the Ring Cycle. As with much of the composer’s output, “Lohengrin” draws from Norse-Germanic mythology with strong fairy tale elements and moral-religious overtones. The libretto is considered by many to be to be his best plotted. Its breadth is breathtaking with themes of love, fidelity, trust, belief, misogyny, sacrifice, betrayal, revenge, tribalism, militarism, and more.
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A. Baker, The Big Picture Show, at Eclipse Mill Gallery and
E. Berland/ W. Beavers, Somatic Movement Workshops
By: - Oct 12th, 2023E. Alexander Baker, Erika Berland and Wendell Beavers are all residents at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts. The mill offers live and work spaces for creative people. Baker’s exhibition can be seen in the Eclipse Mill gallery until October 29 with hours from Thursday to Sunday, 11 am to 6pm.
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