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  • Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

    At Shakespere & Company

    By: S&Co. - Nov 17th, 2022

    We're returning to the world of Jane Austen-inspired theater with a costumed, staged reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, and directed by Ariel Bock! 

  • Berkshire Jazz With Eddie Allen

    Home for the Holidays

    By: Ed Bride - Nov 17th, 2022

    Eddie Allen has worked with such jazz greats as Art Blakey, Billy Harper, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Carter. He has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for: Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Jack McDuff, Etta Jones & Houston Person, and Mongo Santamaria.

  • MASS MOCA Schedule

    Winter To Spring

    By: MOCA - Nov 17th, 2022

    Mixed programming for MASS MoCA.

  • Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue

    Harvard's Carpenter Center

    By: Carpenter - Nov 17th, 2022

    The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents Please Stay Home, an exhibition featuring the work of Darrel Ellis, Leslie Hewitt, and Wardell Milan. An additional contextual installation will include photographs by the artist’s father, Thomas Ellis, and close friend, artist Allen Frame. Centered on a less recognized body of Ellis’s work and featuring new commissions by Hewitt and Milan,

  • Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards

    Outstanding Work Recognized

    By: Berkies - Nov 15th, 2022

    Top honors at the Berkies were Outstanding Musical Production to Barrington Stage Company for their production of A Little Night Music. Barrington Stage shared the Outstanding Play Production award with Bridge Street Theatre, for productions of Waiting for Godot and A Long Day’s Journey Into Night respectively.

  • John Corigliano Premiere at Jordan Hall

    Anthony Roth Costanzo Stars

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 15th, 2022

    The Lord of Cries is a mélange of two classic literary works written two millennia apart: the Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides, and the Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Set in Victorian London at the fearsome time of Jack the Ripper, the opera begins with its title character – Dionysus, the god of fury – returning to earth. Anthony Roth Costanzo featured.

  • Young Concert Artists Announces Winners

    Annual Competition Winners Live Streaming

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 14th, 2022

     Four First Prize Winners have been announced following the Finals of the 2022 Young Concert Artists International Auditions:   

  • Michaelina Wautier at the MFA

    First Major Exhibition of Dutch Artist

    By: MFA - Nov 14th, 2022

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the first exhibition in the Americas dedicated to the art of Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689), a painter from Brussels all but forgotten until the recent rediscovery of her work.

  • Kingston Gallery Accepting Applicants

    Submission Details

    By: Kingston - Nov 13th, 2022

    Kingston Gallery is accepting APPLICATIONS by contempory artists for Associate Member Artist status at Kingston Gallery in Boston’s SoWA arts district. Terms begin in January 2023.

  • Berlin Philharmonic Entertains at Carnegie Hall

    Kirill Petrenko Helps Make Mahler Fun

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 11th, 2022

    The Berlin Philharmonic, inarguably the greatest symphony orchestra in the world, came to New York to show us how much fun music can be.  Their showpiece example, the famously tormented Gustav Mahler. 

  • George Fifield at 72

    Founded Cyber Arts Festival

    By: Mark Favwerman - Nov 13th, 2022

    George Fifield, founder of the Cyberarts Festival and Boston Cyberarts, curator, scholar, arts administrator, creative mentor, videographer, educator, and a major champion of fusing art with technology, passed away on November 11 at the age of 72 from complications that followed a devastating fall that occurred at his Martha’s Vineyard home early last summer

  • Hubbard Hall Presents Còig

    Returns from Nova Scotia

    By: Hubbard - Nov 11th, 2022

    “We all come from sort of a traditional background, but then we have different influences that we’re interested in,” explains fiddler and singer Rachel Davis. “Chrissy (Crowley, fiddler) likes to dive into a lot of world music, Darren (mandolin, guitar, banjo, etc.) comes from a kind of Irish theme from playing around a lot. More of the traditional Cape Breton stuff is really what I love, plus all the folk songs, so it’s an interesting mix.”   

  • Shelia Jordan Concert and Master Class

    The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge

    By: Monk - Nov 09th, 2022

    One of the most distinctive and creative of all jazz singers, NEA Jazz Master and self-described “Jazz Child” Sheila Jordan is one of those rare vocalists whose voice can be regarded among the great instruments of the music.

  • Lend Me a Tenor

    MTC in Norwalk

    By: Karen Isaacs - Nov 10th, 2022

    Kevin Connors has managed to keep the pace fast and the timing almost perfect. That’s a key to effective farce. Too slow and you lose interest. You can’t have time to really think about what is happening.

  • 2022 Boston Artadia Award

    Winners Announced

    By: Artadia - Nov 08th, 2022

    The recipients of the 2022 Boston Artadia Awards are Stephen Hamilton, the Liberty Specialty Markets Artadia Award recipient, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Shantel Miller. The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards were also supported by the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, the Meraki Artist Award, the Artadia Board of Directors, Artadia Council Members, anonymous funders, and individual donors across the country.

  • Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home

    At Boston Sculptors

    By: Sculptors - Nov 08th, 2022

    Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home, her second solo exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, features two discreet series of new ceramic sculpture. Inspired by diverse cultural traditions, Schön employs both ancient and contemporary technologies in her sculptural interpretations.  

  • Gimme Gamay

    Underdog Wine Poured at Mezze

    By: Mezze - Nov 08th, 2022

    Did you hear the one about the time the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold, outlawed the cultivation of Gamay back in 1385? He claimed it was a "disloyal and bad plant." He reserved his region for the more elegant Pinot Noir. You may wonder why we have such an affection for Gamay at Mezze. We often root for the underdog. 

  • Berkshires Jazz Sprawl

    Downtown Pittsfield and Lenox

    By: Jazz - Nov 06th, 2022

    The downtowns of Pittsfield and Lenox, Massachusetts will be sprawling with live music on the weekend of Nov. 18-20, with the first Berkshires Jazz Fall Sprawl. Artists range from small, local groups to the 17-piece Amherst Jazz Orchestra, and spotlight 16-year-old prodigy Brandon Goldberg, who is making his Berkshires debut that weekend.

  • Yet Another Guys and Dolls

    ACT-CT in Ridgefield

    By: Karen Isaacs - Nov 07th, 2022

    Within three months Connecticut theatergoers have seen two excellent productions. In the summer it was produced at Sharon Playhouse. Now ACT-CT in Ridgefield has opened its season with another fine production which runs through Sunday, Nov. 20. Each is well cast, well sung and well directed.

  • Fall Festival of Shakespeare

    Schedule of School Performances

    By: S&CO - Nov 06th, 2022

    Now in its 34th year, the Fall Festival of Shakespeare leads students at 11 high schools in Massachusetts and New York through a language-based exploration of Shakespeare's plays. This work culminates in full-scale productions at their own schools as well as the Main Stage at the Tina Packer Playhouse during a raucous, four-day celebration.

  • Chekhov's First Play at the Irish Arts Center

    Chehkov's Methods Revealed in a Romp

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 06th, 2022

    Dead Center: Chekhov’s First Play has had a jam-packed audience in its run at the Irish Arts Center in New York.  To be sure the city is crammed with actors who play Chekov roles.  This play is a tip to fathoming their secrets.  It is also pure fun for any theater goer.

  • Mousetrap at Hartford Stage

    Where's the Beef

    By: Karen Isaacs - Nov 06th, 2022

    When the murderer reveals himself and points the gun at his next victim, I expect to feel some fear. Unfortunately, in the stylish but misguided Hartford Stage production of The Mousetrap (running through Sunday, Nov. 6), not only didn’t I feel fear, I had no sense that the intended victim felt fear.

  • Pie in the Sky on Acorn

    Must See TV

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 04th, 2022

    In every sense Richard Thomas Griffiths OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was a larger than life actor. We subscribe to Acorn through Amazon Prime. It offers a menu of British, Australian and New Zeland programs. Lately we have been binge watching Griffiths in five seasons as chef detective Henry Crabbe in "Pie in the Sky." You might also know him from appearances in Harry Potter films. On stage he won numerous awards including a Tony and Laurence Olivier Award.

  • We, the Innumerable at National Sawdust

    Niloufar Nourbakhsh Captures Iranian Protests

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 03rd, 2022

    We The Innumerable is an opera created by the Iranian/American composer Niloufar Nourbakhash with libretto by Lisa Flanagan. Sara Jobin, who is committed to works which bring about peace and global understanding, conducted. National Sawdust staged. The opera tells the story of a woman who protects the truth at all costs It is set during protests in Iran after a contested election in 2009. It echoes today’s protests.

  • Rose B. Simpson Legacies

    Boston's Instutute of Contemporary Art

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 03rd, 2022

    Through January 29 the Institute of Contemporary Art is displayng a gallery with 11 totemic ceramic standing figures by Rose B. Simpson. A graduate of RISD she grew up in a culture noted for its distinctive pottery created by her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, her late grandmother, Rina Swentzell and her late great-grandmother, Rose Naranjo.

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