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  • Rare Earle Pilgrim Painting Discovered

    1955 Portrait of Composer Samuel Foster Hall

    By: Pilgrim Foundation - Oct 18th, 2022

    Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an American artist whose work is within the stylistic milieu of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.Working in the early 1950s until the mid 1970s, Pilgrim's style is characterized by figuration informed by abstraction.The artist fluctuated between epic, large-scale compositions and intimate canvases and worked with a variety of media.

  • 6th Berkshire Theatre Awards

    Nominees Announced

    By: BTCA - Oct 17th, 2022

    The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theatre in the region. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the evening of November 14 at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield.

  • Death of Classical Presents Nico Muhly's The Street

    Live Artists Parker Ramsey, Monica Wyche and Hannah Spierman

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 16th, 2022

    The Street is  a triptych of tones and textures created by composer Nico Muhly and writer Alice Goodman.  Goodman points out that this is not a libretto. It is a meditation on Christ’s walk up the stations of the cross in Jerusalem on the day he would be crucified by his fellow Jews. Its take is a street scene, and on the streets where we live.

  • Intolleranza at Komische Oper, Berlin

    Intolleranza 1960, by Luigi Nono

    By: Angelika Jansen - Oct 14th, 2022

    What an opera experience at the Komische Oper! Luigi Nono's "Intolleranza 1960" as the first opening of the 2022/23 season.

  • The Obama Portraits at the MFA

    On View Through October 30

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 14th, 2022

    For the first time presidential paintings are by and of people of color. Kehinde Wiley’s depicted President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald painted Michelle. In the last of five stops the tour of portraits ends at the Museum of Fine Arts on October 30.

  • The Music of Mothers by Victoria Evans Erville

    Produced by TheatreF1rst

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 14th, 2022

    The playwright, Victoria Evans Erville, who also directs, dispatches a dizzying number of important social messages and does so in an entertaining and involving manner.  The central theme considers the effects of politics Victoria Evans Erville on the two lifelong friends, and while May remains consistent throughout, Ethyl offers more interest as a character because she evolves, and not always in one direction or with consistency, which makes for a more intriguing person and reflects realism.

  • Jennifer Koh and Davone Tines at BAM

    Outsider Voices in an Alien Culture

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 14th, 2022

    Across a crowded room at the Paris Opera, Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines looked at each other and realized they had something in common, something that was different from everyone else in the room: their color. They have joined forces to bring ther unique stories to a culture they find alien. Everything Rises is presented as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    At Ivoryton Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 14th, 2022

    The play by Simon Levy (who has also adapted two other Fitzgerald novels to play form) follows the book. While there have been other stage versions, this one, written in 2006 seems now to be the standard.

  • Modernist Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan

    Appointed Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

    By: AKG - Oct 14th, 2022

    The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) has announced the promotion of Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, a specialist in modern and contemporary art and one of the world’s leading experts on art and technology, to the position of Curator.

  • Where Locals Eat

    Getting Off the Beach

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 10th, 2022

    To find the best, fresh seafood you have to get off the honky-tonk beach and head inland to where the locals dine.

  • Misery

    Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Oct 10th, 2022

    The stage adaptation of "Misery" is running through Oct. 30 in a mesmerizing production through Oct. 30. The play is faithful to the source material, Stephen King's 1987 novel about a romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan. "Misery" takes place in the late 1980's in a small Colorado town.

  • Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt

    Family Secrets Brilliantly Revealed

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 10th, 2022

    The playwright Tom Stoppdard’s mother, his only connection to his earliest life, born in Czechoslovakia and traveled to Singapore and then to England. She did not discuss her Jewish origins. Growing up in Britain, Stoppard asked her to write the family story. He gave her a beautiful notebook, which she returned. She would scribble the bare outlines  in a small cheap exercise book.  Now he fleshes the story out on stage in New York.

  • Seascape By Edward Albee

    Gamely Directed by Eric Hill for Berkshire Theatre Group

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 02nd, 2022

    Leapin Lizards! Berkshire Theatre Group has mounted Seascape Edward Albee's absurdist answer to Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. Albee, one of America's leading playwrights won a Pulitizer for it (one of three) but it was a flop with critics and audiences. The Broadway run ended after just 65 performances. Hit or miss you can draw your own conclusions based on the production directed by Eric Hill.

  • The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti

    Produced by Livermore Valley Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 03rd, 2022

    Although Donizetti concocted this superficially light-hearted confection, “Elixir” is a serious delight from curtain to curtain, both as an entertainment and as a great work of composition.  As we have come to expect, Livermore Valley Opera once again punches above its weight with a totally appealing production that hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively.

  • Experiments in Opera Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

    Everything for Dawn TV Series Format

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 06th, 2022

    Experiments in Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The statistics for artistic involvement are impressive. EiO has commissioned 85 new works from 55 composers collaborating with over three hundred performers, designers, and directors from the New York City artists community. Now they present opera in TV series format on All Arts.

  • Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED

    MoCA World Premiere Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow

    By: MoCA - Oct 04th, 2022

    Groundbreaking choreographer Shamel Pitts doesn’t dance around big issues—instead, he dances into them.

  • 4000 Miles

    Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Oct 04th, 2022

    Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in Southeast Florida will open its 2022-23 season with "4000 Miles." The comedy-drama by Amy Herzog was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. PBD's production will run from Oct. 14-30, with preview performances on Oct. 12 and 13.

  • Cate Blanchett Becomes an Orchestra Conductor

    Todd Field's Film Opens New York Film Festival

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 03rd, 2022

    Cate Blanchett is an orchestra conductor Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s new  film Tár, which premiered at the New York Film Festival. Anyone who has been exposed to Blanchett's performance will be eager to see her latest, mind-blowing work. This is also an opportunity for the unexposed to be introduced. Blanchett is an actress who will always take a dare and push herself beyond perceived limits.

  • MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist

    The artist Will Develop New Work in 2022-23

    By: MIT - Oct 03rd, 2022

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT. The appointment, hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) will begin this fall.

  • Herman Melville and the Berkshires

    60,000,000 Copies of Moby-Dick Have Been Published

    By: Ralph Brill - Sep 29th, 2022

    By the 1930s, Herman Melville's novel became an example of Great American Writing and was studied in many University English Programs.  The interest in Herman Melville continues such that since his death on this day (September 29) in 1891, more than 60,000,000 copies of MOBY-DICK have been published around the world!

  • Indecent by Paula Vogel

    San Francisco Playhouse and Co-produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble,

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 01st, 2022

    The genesis of “Indecent” begins in Warsaw in 1906.  Young author Sholem Asch has written a Yiddish play called “God of Vengeance,” which acts as a play-within-a-play in “Indecent,”  as scenes from the former appear throughout the latter.  Portrayed passionately and with grand gestures by Billy Cohen, Asch entreats other writers to participate in a table reading.  After the reading, I. L. Peretz, Warsaw’s most distinguished Yiddish author, tells Asch to burn the play.  Despite contentiousness and only a modicum of support, a Yiddish language company produces the play.  

  • Grace Kelly and U Conn Jazz Ensemble

    Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass

    By: Ed Bride - Oct 01st, 2022

    All signs point to a full house for Grace Kelly’s evening of big band music. The young lion of jazz headlines with the University of Connecticut Jazz Ensemble on Sunday evening, Oct. 9.

  • volksbuehne.com ~ Berlin

    Ophelia's Got Talent

    By: Angelika Jansen - Sep 28th, 2022

    An amazing theatrical performance took place at the stage of the Volksbuehne, Berlin.  The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger made her newest work „Ophelia's Got Talent“ into a show that stretched the technical abilities of the theatre to the fullest. 

  • All of Me by Laura Winters at Barrington Stage

    World Premiere for Award Winning Drama

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 26th, 2022

    In 2017, Madison Ferris was the first disabled actor on Broadway as Laura in Glass Menagerie. This astonishing performer stars in All of Me by Laura Winters. By Laura Winters. It is having a World Premiere of the Burman New Play Award Winner at Barrington Stage Company.

  • Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven

    Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 29th, 2022

    Opera Philadelphia and the Obvious Agency present a choreographed Raven, based on Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue. The audience is transported by the fantastic music and dance.

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