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Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden
Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Boston-based contemporary dance artist Rachel Linsky debuts “Hidden,” the latest in her ongoing choreographic series ZACHOR that seeks to preserve stories of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. “Hidden” is inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster who at 10 years old was hidden from the Nazis in a Polish family’s attic for two years.
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Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues By Charles Smith
Decades Old Play Revised for Shakespere & Company
By: - Sep 27th, 2022For its fall production Shakespeare & Company is presenting the revised, heart-warming, one act play Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues by Charles Smith. We left with many pull-out talking points about vaudeville, ragtime, aging, racism, welfare and most importantly the never ending human comedy.
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Renovated Huntington Theatre Reopens
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Huntington announces the casting and creative team for the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, directed by Lili-Anne Brown. Wilson’s masterpiece serves as the inaugural production of the newly renovated Huntington Theatre and runs from October 14 – November 13, 2022, with digital access to the filmed performance available until November 27, 2022.
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Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022But, oh, that music. Those haunting melodies and the euphonic lilt of the language produce a signature Russian experience. It should be no surprise that this is currently the world’s most produced Slavic opera, given its many attractions. Happily, it remains in the repertory of San Francisco Opera, which offers a striking and highly enjoyable rendition.
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MFA Free on Monday, October 10
Indigenous People’s Day
By: - Sep 28th, 2022On Monday, October 10, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), offers free admission and activities all day as part of an annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration. Visitors are invited to enjoy music and dance, drop in on a variety of engaging family art-making activities, and explore galleries showcasing 20th-century Native art from the Southwest as well as Indigenous artworks from across the U.S. and Canada
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: Sounds of Hazel
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
By: - Sep 28th, 2022Sounds of Hazel, choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s is a new ballet inspired by the life of virtuoso classical and jazz pianist, singer, and civil rights activist Hazel Scott.
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Britten's the Prodigal Son
Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera continues its exploration of chamber works by Benjamin Britten with two performances of the English composer’s biblically inspired 1968 opera “The Prodigal Son.” The work is the third of Britten's three Parables for Church Performance; Enigma mounted the first, “Curlew River,” to critical acclaim last fall. This new production is directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Z. Cairns, who finds in the universal story of parent/child reconciliation and forgiveness a balm for an often bitterly divided society.
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Experiments in Augmented Reality
Installation Space North Adams
By: - Sep 27th, 2022Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it. Freeman and Lewy have installed their distinctive augmented reality works at the Installation Space gallery, as well as at access points in downtown North Adams public spaces.
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Opera Philadelphia Festival Returns
Rossini's Otello Features Lawrence Brownlee
By: - Sep 27th, 2022Opera Philadelphia brings Gioachino Rossini's Otello to the stage. Beethoven told Rossini that he should stay away from serious drama. It was not in his nature. That is not the only reason Rossini’s serious opera Otello has been largely ignored. When Verdi and Bioto wrote their Otello, it replaced Rossini’s in the repertoire. Now we can hear the glorious bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee and also Daniela Mack dazzle and emote as Rodrigo and Desdemona.
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Sunset Boulevard
Music Theatre of Connecticut
By: - Sep 26th, 2022Have you forgotten this show? It is based on the classic 1950 film noir of the same name which tells the story of an aging silent screen actress deluded that she will make a comeback and the struggling screenwriter she hires to help her with a script. Add in music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and you had a smash hit in both London and New York.
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BSO Launches Season
Andris Nelsons Leads the Orchestra
By: - Sep 22nd, 2022Andris Nelsons, marking his ninth season as BSO Music Director, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the opening concert of the 2022–23 season on September 22 at Symphony Hall. Pianist Awadagin Pratt appears for the first time with the BSO, performing a work written for him by American composer Jessie Montgomery (Rounds, for piano and string orchestra) and J.S. Bach's Concerto in A, BWV 1055.
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Rachel Portesi: Standing Still
Griffin Museum of Photography
By: - Sep 23rd, 2022Rachel Portesi: Standing Still, a solo exhibition of works by artist Rachel Portesi, featuring a selection of collodion tintypes made with large-format vintage cameras that explore the evolving lifelong complexities of female identity. The works in Standing Still are part of the artist's ongoing series of “hair portraits.”
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Victoria Jefferies: A Garden as a Work of Art
Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity
By: - Sep 18th, 2022"A Garden as a Work of Art ~ Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity" -- This garden poses a statement as well as a question. So, please follow the work described in this collaborative project and decide for yourself.
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The Moholy-Nagy Estate
Collaboration with Web-3 Photography Organization Fellowship
By: - Sep 22nd, 2022The Moholy-Nagy Estate announces collaboration with web-3 photography organization Fellowship to launch its first NFT collection
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Processional Arts Workshop at Columbia U.
Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles, Artistic Directors
By: - Sep 20th, 2022The beloved neighborhood tradition of shaping our stories in light returns, in person for the first time since 2019. Starting on September 17, Miller Theatre opens its doors for a week of free lantern-building workshops, culminating in a magical illuminated procession through Morningside Park. The theme of the 11th Morningside Lights is centered around how we memorialize.
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Lear Written by Marcus Gardley
Cal Shakes and Oakland Theater Project & Play On Shakespeare
By: - Sep 19th, 2022Marcus Gardley’s “Lear” is phenomenal in conception and breathtaking in execution.
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Theatre in Conneticut
Moving Forward from Shutdowns
By: - Sep 18th, 2022The fall theater scene in Connecticut is starting. It will include everything from hard-hitting comedy/drama such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Tony-winning musicals – 42nd Street, Fun Home and Sunset Blvd and everything in between. In fact, two shows – the Great Gatsby and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are getting two productions each.
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Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 17th, 2022The opera is set in the 1930s, offering shades of the Hollywood glamor and fascist depravity of that time. This conceit does allow for the visual appeal of period newsreels projections and a more varied look in Constance Hoffman’s appealing and fashionable costumery, but the conceptual rationale for the time shift is unclear.
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EXIL at Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
Adaptation of Lionel Feuchtwanger's EXIL
By: - Sep 15th, 2022The director, Luk Perceval, turned L. Feuchtwanger's book EXIL into a 3 1/2 hour long journey for audiences and ensemble.
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Jasper at Pershing Square in New York
Yonder Window Theatre Company Presents
By: - Sep 18th, 2022Jasper, a new play by Grant MacDermott, playwright in residence at Yonder Window Theatre Company, pack a deep punch. Giving birth to a child who is damaged is a blow to parents, who seldom have the skills to deal with cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy and autism. In Jasper, MacDermott choses not to name the disease. He does not present us with their child.
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"Mother Tongue" at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
By Argeninian playwright Lola Arias
By: - Sep 16th, 2022The Gorki Theater in Berlin, the most socially engaged stage in Berlin, has opened its season with 'Mother Tongue,' a work by the Argentinian playwright Lola Arias.
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Jeanne Renaud (1928 - 2022)
Montreal Artist and Choreographer
By: - Sep 16th, 2022Jeanne Renaud the Montreal artist, dancer and choreographer has passed away at 94. She created choreography for the film Brèves histoires de pierres muettes (2018) and le Projet Feldman/Renaud à la Salle Bourgie in 2021, with the dancers Louise Bédard and Marc Boivin.
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Close Encounters Announces a New Season
Treasures in the Berkshires
By: - Sep 14th, 2022Close encounters with music is an innovative and captivating presenter of music. Sublime chamber music concerts are enhanced by entertaining, erudite, and lively commentary by artistic director Yehuda Hanani. Programs include international soloists, and intriguing themes.
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The Marriage of Figaro
produced by Opera San Jose
By: - Sep 13th, 2022Perhaps more than any other, “Marriage” is considered to be the finest comic opera ever written, if not the finest opera altogether.
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The Actors
Renowned Playwright Ronnie Larsen's Latest Work.
By: - Sep 13th, 2022Renowned playwright Ronnie Larsen's latest play, The Actors, is wholesome enough for most ages. Many people know Larsen for his gay-themed, risque pieces. A fine production of The Actors is playing through Oct. 2 in an intimate theater in Southeast Florida, near Ft. Lauderdale.
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