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  • N/A by Mario Correa at Mitzi Newhouse Theater

    Past, Present and Future of US poitics

    By: Susan Hall - Aug 07th, 2024

    Mario Correa’s play N/A is thoroughly entertaining. The two-hander is at the Mitzi Newhouse in New York through September 1.  Holland Taylor and Ana Villafane star. Diane Paulus directs.

  • Mark St Germain Explores Forgiveness

    World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 04th, 2024

    Inspired by a newspaper article, Forgiveness is set in Minnesota where prisoners are allowed to plead their case in front of the Governor, in a bid to be returned to society. In this interactive production, audiences help determine who is worthy of forgiveness.

  • Bulrusher - The Opera

    World Premiere Pulitzer Finalist Play by West Edge Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 05th, 2024

    A black female foundling with a gift for telepathy is becoming a woman. Her world of isolation in a white, northern California town is pierced by the arrival of another young black woman from Alabama. Multiple conflicts ensue among the diverse characters. The lush music appeals and performances are first rate.

  • Cape Ann Museum Makeover

    Over $18 million in Campaign Commitments

    By: CAM - Aug 05th, 2024

    Building on the generous support of the Museum’s Board, donors, and supporters amid growing momentum for general Museum operations, Director Oliver Barker and Henrietta Gates, Board Chair, announced that the institution has generated over $18 million in campaign commitments. This significant support will fund renovations to its Downtown facility, provide upgrades to the CAM Green campus, enhance programming, and augment the Museum’s endowment.

  • The Islanders by Carey Crim

    World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 01st, 2024

    Carey Crim has written a slow, intricate two-hander that takes patience to absorb us into the incremental pace of the Island. Director Reggie Life and a superb cast (Michelle Mountain and "ranney") have meticulously involved us in their struggle for meaning and endurance.

  • Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award

    In Memory of Ted Shawn

    By: Pillow - Aug 02nd, 2024

    Jacob’s Pillow  presents American dancer and choreographer Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. George will accept the award at the outdoor performance by his New York City-based company, kNonAme Artist.

  • Norton Gallery in Palm Beach

    One of America's Top Regional Museums

    By: Charles GiulianoC - Jul 30th, 2024

    The Norton Gallery has been enlarged with a design by Lord Norman Foster. The collection has grown to 8,200 works with five curatorial departments. It took us two days to tour the collection and special exhibitions. The must see Norton is an elite regional museum. It's come a long way from when I visited annually during the 1980s.

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Victor Hugo's Masterpiece Works Well as a Stage Musical

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 29th, 2024

    The deformed hunchback Quasimodo has suffered a life of abuse and isolation as the cathedral bell ringer. When he has the chance to interact with other people, he endures scorn from many, but the beautiful Roma girl Esméralda is kind. Quasimodo's cruel guardian Frollo, the Deacon of the Cathedral, who despises the Roma but is smitten by Esméralda, intercedes with unhappy consequences.

  • The Prom

    At Playhouse on Park

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jul 30th, 2024

    The Prom is worthwhile seeing because of the fine performances and choreography.

  • Pamela Palmer by David Ives

    World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 27th, 2024

    The highlight of a scaled back Williamstowm Theatre Festival season was the world premiere Pamela Palmer by the renowned playwright David Ives. With a noir approach he would have us accept the improbable. His tale of class struggle is set in the mansion of the unhappy housewife who has hired a detective.

  • Dance Theatre of Harlem

    To Return to Jacob's Pillow

    By: Pllow - Jul 29th, 2024

    In their first appearance at Jacob’s Pillow since 2019, Dance Theatre of Harlem is celebrating their 55th Anniversary, as well as the 90th birthday of their legendary founder Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018).

  • Boeing Boeing at Barrington Stage

    Comedy Takes Flight

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 25th, 2024

    Now retired Julianne Boyd returns to Barrington Stage Company to direct the comedy/ farce Boeing Boeing. She has selected a dream team of BSC frequent flyers, Christopher Innvar as the  scheming bachelor, Bernard, the nubile Mark H. Dold a visiting long lost friend Robert, and Debra Jo Rupp, a comedic national treasure as Bernard’s maid, Berthe.

  • The Great American Mousical

    The Legacy Theatre

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jul 24th, 2024

    The plot is simple; a Broadway theater is about to be demolished while in the basement, a company of mice rehearses their own “musical.”

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

    New City Players near Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Jul 23rd, 2024

    New City Players' current professional production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" sizzles. The production runs through Aug. 4 in Island City Stage's blackbox theater. The company uses space and budget limitations to the production's advantage.

  • Film at Lincoln Center Presents Mexican Films

    A Spectacle Every Day

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 21st, 2024

    Film at Lincoln Center and the Locarno Film Festival present “Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema,” a retrospective of Mexican cinema from the 1940s through the 1960s, to be from July 26 through August 8. With new restorations of many works rarely screened or some never before seen theatrically in the United States, and standout performances from the biggest stars.

  • The Best of The Second City

    Residency at Berkeley Rep for Storied Improv Troupe

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 19th, 2024

    The vaunted Chicago-based troupe performs sketches, quick-hitters, and enough improvisation to display their fast reaction chops. Old skits are updated, and enough local references are integrated for the production to feel home grown. The cast of six operates black-box fashion, effectively and entertainingly employing mime to represent invisible props.

  • Flamenco at Jacob's Pillow

    Week Eight August 14 Through 18

    By: Pillow - Jul 19th, 2024

    Week 8 of this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will feature beloved New York-based flamenco artists Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, who will perform at the Festival for the first time since 2002. Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca will appear for five days in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre, from Wednesday, August 14 through Sunday, August 18. The program is a showcase for the work of Martín Santangelo and Bessie-award winning dancer and choreographer Soledad Barrio, and will feature their newest work, Searching for Goya (2023).

  • Bert Stern Family Collection “Marilyn Uncovered"

    Exhibition at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox

    By: Sohn - Jul 16th, 2024

    Bert Stern’s children, Trista and Bret, comment on the exhibition, “We are thrilled to bring our father’s iconic 1962 shoot with Marilyn Monroe back to vivid life at the beautiful Sohn Fine Art Gallery. Marilyn was our dad’s dream girl, a unique mix of actress, model and ‘American goddess’ (as he called her) that he never encountered before or after. He told us, ‘Stars die, but light goes on forever.’ Through the magic of photography, Marilyn Monroe is still reaching us with her light today.”

  • An Adventure Story About My Temple Life

    Memoir of a North Adams Based Daoist Monk

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 16th, 2024

    At the age of 65,MIchael McGrath ascended a mountain China with a request to study Daoism at an ancient temple. The Abbott accepted him with skepticism predicting that he wold wash out in a month. He stuck it out for a year and after holidays with his family on Cape Cod, returned to the mountain several times. He has published 'An Adventure Story About My Temple Life What I learned, and What I Now Live.' It's a life affirming page turner.

  • Accused!

    The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective Trilogy is Complete With a Case Involving Terrorism

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 15th, 2024

    London is under threat. One woman has been murdered and another killed in a bombing, with anarchists being implicated. Three intrepid female sleuths find evidence that suggests otherwise. Patricia Milton's script is literate and replete with revelations about social and political issues of the day.

  • Grand Théâtre de Genève at Jacob's Pillow

    Improvising Plan B

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 15th, 2024

    Grand Théâtre de Genève arrived for the scheduled third week of the Jacob’s Pillow season. Sets for Noetic, which was to have its North American premiere, however, did not. With just two days to adjust the company pursued Plan B,

  • Elevator Repair Service Creates a New Ulysses

    Summerscape at Bard Presents Staged Novel

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 15th, 2024

    Elevator Repair Service, an innovative theater producing group, presented a staged version of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Luma Theater at the Fisher Center as part of Bard’s Summerscape 2024 whuich commissioned the work.

  • La Voix Humaine and Dido & Aeneas

    Festival Opera Fine Production of Divergent Works

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 14th, 2024

    Carrie Hennessey gives a sterling performance in the Francis Poulenc work, "La Voix Humaine," as a woman who talks to her lover on the phone while learning that she is losing him. Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is given a fine treatment as well, led by the chorus and orchestra.

  • Video Master Bill Viola at 73

    Early Work in Boston

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 14th, 2024

    Bill Viola is remembered by Bostonians for his early installation "Room for Saint John of the Cross" at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He also created a video triptych for the Fulller Museum of Art. A champion was David Ross who hired him as an assistant at the Everson Museum in 1971. Ross later showed him at the ICA and Whitney Museum.

  • Death, Let Me Do My Show

    Rachel Bloom at Williamstown Theatre Festival

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 12th, 2024

    Standup comedian, Rachel Bloom, is a really big deal. Her rom-com “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ran for four seasons on The CW with poor ratings but a solid fan base. She brought a standup piece “Death, Let Me Do My Show” to Williamstown Theatre Festival. The routine was filmed for future release on Netflix.

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