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Drama Desk Awards
The Show Goes On with Annual Ceremony
By: - Apr 26th, 2020The Drama Desk Award's nominees have been announced. This year's ceremony will take place as a special presentation. The annual event honors outstanding achievement by theater artists.
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ArtsFloAtHome from Thire France
Les Arts Florissants Perform Spring Festival Virtually
By: - Apr 26th, 2020William Christie's and Paul Agnew's Les Arts Florissants is skipping their US tour. In any case, tickets to their events are quickly snapped up. Fortunately these two Baroque specialists have arranged to present their spring festival virtually. It is a treat so far. Past performances are available. Future ones can be seen live or at your leisure.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
Update on Altered Programming
By: - Apr 30th, 2020A letter from Berkshire Jazz director Ed Bride. With some adjustments the music will continue.
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Berkshire Cartoonist Howard Cruse
Stuck Rubber Baby's 25th Anniversary Edition
By: - May 01st, 2020Howard Cruse was a pioneering gay cartoonist and Berkshire neighbor. He passed away last year. His legendary Stuck Rubber Baby is having its 25th anniversary edition. The publication will be available this summer.
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Ethiopia: Part One
Addis Ababa, Aksum, Lalibela
By: - May 01st, 2020Ethiopia is a wondrous land of majestic mountains, ancient cultures, beautiful people and architectural treasures. Addis Ababa, the modern capital city; Aksum, the one time capital of the ancient Aksumite Empire, and the holy city of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with eleven rock-hewn churches, leave one with indelible memories.
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Streaming Theatre
What's Free This Weekend
By: - May 02nd, 2020With theatres closed for the pandamic many are posting their performances on the internet. Here are some productions for free viewing this weekend.
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Opera Philadelphia Digital Festival O
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman Create Digital Opera
By: - May 01st, 2020The world premiere of Denis and Katya took place last fall at Opera Philadelphia Festival 2019. Philip Venables is a riveting composer of opera. This work succeeded less well on stage than it does as the opening presentation of this Digital Festival.
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Corna Cookbook: Cod
Food and Wine Critic Phil Kampe
By: - May 04th, 2020Food, wine and travel writer Phil Kampe is a superb home cook. Hunkered down in the Berkshires he creates intutitive responses to family recipes and extrensive travel with Maria Reveley. We have much enjoyed his masterful cuisine.
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Gallery Naga On Line Only
Nicole Chesney and Rick Fox
By: - May 04th, 2020To mark the beginning of another month in this surreal and uncertain time, Gallery NAGA will present the third solo exhibition of glowing, ephemeral paintings by Nicole Chesney and luscious, Irish landscapes on paper by Rick Fox.
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Carona Cookbook: Lunch
Carl Chiarenza's Soup and Sandwich
By: - May 04th, 2020Carl Chiarenza is a renowned photographer and art historian. This is what he had for lunch in Rochester.
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Corona Cookbook: Ramps
Kampe Ramping Up
By: - May 05th, 2020There is a narrow two week window when foraging for ramps. Both the leaves and bulb of this member of the onion family are unique. Each year Phil Kampe returns to his secret spot for a culinary treat.
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Composer Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer
Propulsive, Hummable Opera, The Central Park Five
By: - May 05th, 2020Anthony Davis wrote for dance first, so he sees his music as driving action. To the traditional forms of European opera, he brings the music of his people, African Americans. Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington are honored in his work. He likes to provide for improvisation, so that each performance is unique. The Central Park Five premiered in Long Beach Opera last year.
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Theatre and the New Normal
The View from My Sofa
By: - May 06th, 2020Since we have to do without live theater for the foreseeable future, however, theater on my sofa can be an excellent replacement.
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Corona Cookbook: Baked Cod
At Home with Artist Susan Nichter
By: - May 06th, 2020Artist Susan Nichter shares another way to cook cod.
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Corona Cookbook: Leg of Lamb
Marinated Over Night
By: - May 07th, 2020This preparation of boneless leg of lamb entails overnight marination. The Greeks prefer to serve it fully cooked.
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About My Painting by Pieter de Hooch
A Woman Seated by a Window with a Child in the Doorway
By: - May 07th, 2020I look to a painting on my wall by the 17th century Dutch painter, Pieter de Hooch. It is a domestic scene of a mother calmly peeling turnips in a corner while a child enters the threshold carrying a flask and a plate, smiling down at a little dog looking up in anticipation. I am relieved.
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Corona Cookbook: Congee
With Cubed Potato and Cabbage
By: - May 07th, 2020While Pippy Giuliano is a vegetarian she superbly prepares meat for her husband Yuri. This is a breakfast or dinner that they both enjoy.
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Corona Cookbook: Baked Splatchcock Chicken
Cooking from Old Cape Cod
By: - May 08th, 2020Erica is an artist/ photographer who lives on Cape Cod. We keep up with her on Facebook.
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George Segal at Green Gallery
On this Day, May 8, Back in 1962
By: - May 08th, 2020Rembering when George Segal first exhibited at Dick Bellamy's Green Street Gallery on May 8, 1962
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MASK MoCA Indeed
A Friend in Need
By: - May 08th, 2020MASS MoCA is in pain as are all of us. Joe Thompson appeals for our help. For now in North Adams its MASK MoCA.
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Opera Philadelphia Digital Festival
We Shall not Be Moved Reprised
By: - May 09th, 2020We Shall Not be Moved was a hit at the 2017 Opera Philadelphia Festival, a must-attend event held in Philadelphia in the fall. It is available on Facebook, Sunday, May 10 at 7pm.
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Al Hirschfeld On Line Exhibition
Socially Distant Theatre
By: - May 11th, 2020The Al Hirschfeld Foundation is proud to announce the first in a series of online exhibitions exploring the work of one of the most iconic artists of the last century. On May 11, the Foundation will open a special exhibition for these times: "SOCIALLY DISTANT THEATER: The Solo Show As Seen By Hirschfeld", a collection of 25 drawings, paintings, collages, and prints documenting a half century of one person shows. This special digital exhibit will be online for six weeks through June 20.
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MFA Pledges $500,000 for Diversity
Settlement Negotiated by Attorney General
By: - May 11th, 2020There were incidents of racism when a school group visited the Museum of Fine Arts on May 16, 2019. Attorney General Maura Healey has negotiated an agreement between the Museum of Fine Arts and Boston’s Helen Y. David Leadership Academy. The settlment comes with an apology as well as a commitment of $500,000 to address issues of racism
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Young Arts Foundation Presents Conrad Tao
Gifted Listener Tao at Home
By: - May 09th, 2020YoungArts brings us artist’s self-designed concerts from home. In the interior soundscape of his home, Conrad Tao presents his own compositions and Arnold Schoenberg’s among others. His electronic composition, sometimes mixed with the piano and at others alone, provides an extension into other sound universes. The outside world is omni-present through a window which extends the room into trees and skies.
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Victoria Bond at the Cutting Edge
Composer, Conductor and Musical Polymath
By: - May 10th, 2020Victoria Bond was born to be a musician. Her grandfather was a composer and conductor. Her father was an operatic bass, and her mother, a concert pianist. She found the piano herself. When her kindergarten teacher scolded her mother for pushing Bond too hard, her mother explained that she was trying to hold her back, but could not.
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