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Birds and Balls
Two Lively One-Act Operas From Innovative Opera Parallèle
By: - Apr 07th, 2024Imagine one opera about the heralded 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match and another about an obscure Belgian bird singing competition. How would they be packaged in a program? Of course, by framing them as broadcasts from ABC's Wide World of Sports, with Howard Cosell at the mic. Innovative production techniques lift these already interesting little gems.
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Tanglewood Popular Artists
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The Kite Runner
Broadway Tour of an Insightful Look into Growing Up Privileged in Afghanistan
By: - Apr 10th, 2024Twelve-year-old Amir comes from wealth and the dominant Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan. His only close friend, the illiterate Hassan, is not only from the deprived minority Hazara tribe but is the son of the servant of Amir's father. Hassan's kite running skills allow Amir to compete at the highest level in this important activity, but Amir will betray the trust of friendship, and the consequences reverberate.
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Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States
London's Serpentine Gallery
By: - Apr 11th, 2024For over 30 years, Yinka Shonibare CBE has used Western art history and literature to explore contemporary culture and national identities. Suspended States is the artist’s first London solo exhibition in over 20 years. It showcases new works, interrogating how systems of power affect sites of refuge, debates on public statues, the ecological impact of colonialisation and the legacy of imperialism on conflict and consequential attempts at peace.
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Jacob's Pillow Schedule
Dance in the Berkshires
By: - Apr 11th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow announces that tickets are now on sale to the general public for the full schedule of programming at this summer’s Dance Festival, which will offer nine weeks of performances by world-class artists, live music, and free and paid family-friendly events, on indoor and outdoor stages. In addition to featuring local and regional artists, the festival will include dance companies traveling from across the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Spain, and beyond.
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Macbeth, an undoing, at Theatre for a New Audience
Zinnie Harris Reacts to Shakespeare
By: - Apr 12th, 2024Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) is producing Macbeth (an undoing) at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. The Royal Lyceum’s production of Macbeth (an undoing) at TFANA is a promising start to a reciprocal partnership, The Shakespeare Exchange, between Royal Lyceum and Theatre for a New Audience.
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Mirror Master: Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan
LARAC Glens Falls, New York
By: - Apr 14th, 2024Over hill and dale, through mill towns and pastures, the entourage gathered in Glens Falls. Family and friends came from far and wide to celebrate yet another exhibition of the representational artist couple Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan. The faithful were yet again rewarded by a stunning exhibition at LARAC in Glens Falls, New York.
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Tiger Style!
Walking Challenging Line Between Being Chinese And American
By: - Apr 16th, 2024Raised by Chinese-American tiger parents, adult siblings Albert and Jennifer are stereotypically accomplished and conflict avoiding. But when Albert is passed over for a promotion that goes to a less competent European-American, he reaches wit's end. Neither sibling speaks any Chinese, but they feel that they will be better received in China than at home in the U.S. What could go wrong? What doesn't in this broad but provocative farce?
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Dali Museum in St. Petersburgh, Florida
Celebrating 100 Years of Surrealism
By: - Apr 17th, 2024Arguably, Dali's best known work and masterpiece is “The Persistence of Memory” 1931. It was included in his first New York exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932. In 1934 it was anonymously donated to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). It has been suggested that it was influenced by Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. To which the artist replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun.
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Sanctuary City,
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - Apr 18th, 2024Sanctuary City, the play at TheaterWorks Hartforddeals with the consequences for the children, often very young, they brought with them, These children have no connection to their country of origin since their parents could never visit and return; the US is the only country they know.
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Yancey Richardson Shows Mary Lum
Artist Resides in North Adams
By: - Apr 19th, 2024The exhibition title temporary arrangements refers to Mary Lum’s journeys though the streets of New York and Paris, observing the fragments of a crumbling façade of a building, a vendor’s pushcart, or a poster for a vernissage, which may have a short shelf life in the urban environment. Lum takes photographs on the streets looking at geometric forms, planes of color, and text.
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Tiergarten, a New York Carbaret
Carnegie Hall on the Lower East Side
By: - Apr 21st, 2024Tiergarten, a cabaret, opened for three nights in the Grand Hall of St Mary’s Church on the lower East Side of Manhattan. A participant in Carnegie Hall’s deep gaze at the music of the Weimar Republic, hot impresario Andrew Ousley gathered together a group of top-notch performers and a talented design crew to create an ageless event. When the doors close, a mad spirit is unleashed in Willkommen.
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STRIP-TOWER by Gerhard Richter
Installed by London's Serpentine Gallery
By: - Apr 23rd, 2024STRIP-TOWER (2023) expands on Gerhard Richter's continued exploration of painting, photography, digital reproduction and abstraction and self-scrutinising approach that have occupied his practice for over six decades.
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Constellations by Nick Payne
Playing at the Chain Theatre in New York
By: - Apr 23rd, 2024Constellations by Nick Payne debuted on the West End in London and also on Broadway. Now it has a production at the Chain Theatre off-Broadway. An innovative new theatre group, The Company We Keep, is mounting the play. The engaging work exists in parallel universes and becomes, as the producers suggest, an immersive experience, suggesting the myriad ways in which each of our life experiences might expand.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo to Head Opera Philadelphia
Cutting Edge Company Makes the Best Choice
By: - Apr 25th, 2024The Opera Philadelphia Board of Directors has unanimously approved the appointment of Anthony Roth Costanzo as General Director and President effective June 1, 2024. A grammy-winning countertenor and creative producer who ”exists to transform opera” Costanzo will shape the future of a company known as “a hotbed of operatic innovation”, overseeing fundraising and business strategies, audience development, community initiatives, and artistic planning.
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Lempicka Bombs on Broadway
An interesting Artist but Muddled Production
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Lempicka was dud when it workshopped in 2018 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now. with a thud, it has landed on Broadway
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All My Sons by Arthur Miller
At Hartford Stage
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Marsha Mason, who stars in this production, feels All My Sons, an early play by Miller, one of his best. I agree. And this production proves it.
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Judy Kensley McKie Carving the Surface
At Gallery Naga
By: - Apr 27th, 2024Judy Kensley McKie Carving the Surface is the latest exhibition at Gallery NAGA. In the span of four decades she has been been among the most renowned artists of her generation.
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Family Tree
Word Premiere co-production in South Florida
By: - Apr 29th, 2024Ronnie Larsen Presents and Plays of Wilton presents the world premiere production of "Family Tree" by Erin K. Considine. "Family Tree" is a moving and funny play with layers.
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Andrew Stevovich at Clark Gallery
Whimsical Figuration
By: - Apr 30th, 2024Whimsical figurative artist Andrew Stevovich is exhibiting at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass.
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Pollock's Masterpiece Lavender Mist
How It Got Away From the MFA
By: - May 05th, 2024For under a million dollars, MFA curator Kenworth Moffett, presented Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist to the acquisitions committee. In an epic pratfall the trustees under orders from the new director, Merrill Rueppel, turned it down. In a matter of weeks it was acquired by the National Gallery. The MFA later acquired two works by the abstract expressionist artist. Several years ago a Pollock, now owned by the Norton Museum, sold for $200 million.
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A New Slant on Thoreau
Huff and Puff at deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
By: - May 08th, 2024This provocative installation at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”
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Provincetown Berta Walker Gallery
35th Season
By: - May 13th, 2024A large show featuring “The Anchors of the Berta Walker Gallery” will celebrate the artists who keep the gallery thriving: Director Grace Hopkins, Gallery Assistant Laura Shabott and Gallery Assistant/Installer Bert Yarborough. Accompanying this show will be a group show of art by former staff, including Sky Power and Erna Partoll (both of whom worked at the gallery for ten years), as well as photos of individuals, friends, and family who have made the Gallery’s existence possible (a visual “introduction of gratitude,” if you will, in our book of visuals.)
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Berkshire Music School Gala at Ventfort Hall
Flutist Brandon Patrick George To Perform
By: - May 13th, 2024On June 1, 2024 the Berkshire Music School, in partnership with Ventfort Hall, welcomes Brandon Patrick George, flute, for Berkshire Music School's Annual Gala to raise funds for BMS’ Community Engagement programs, including pay-what-you-wish group classes, need-based private lesson scholarships, and outreach assemblies and workshops in public schools.
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Roger Daltrey Brings Tommy to Tanglewood
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
By: - Jun 16th, 2018After nearly a half century lapse Tanglewood has doubled down on the vintage British rock group The Who. Last summer we heard Pete Townshend leading Quadrophenia with the Pops. Last night lead singer Roger Daltrey performed the entire 75-minute Tommy as well as three encores minus the orchestra.
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