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Bright Colors and Bold Patterns
An Island City Stage production
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Southeast Florida's Island City Stage presents a delightfully comic 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns." The Drew Droege one-man comedy is onstage through June 29. The production will also include a period during which people can virtually watch the show. 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns' completes Island City Stage's 9th season.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & CENSORSHIP SEPTEMBER 23-26
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Featuring four Williams plays, the newest from Penny Arcade, Mae West’s shuttered 1926 Broadway smash, a witchy satire from 1616, and more. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 in Provincetown—the birthplace of modern American theater—where Williams worked on many of his major plays during the 1940s.
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Mezze in Williamstown
Soup is Chill
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Mezze in Williamstown changes with the seasons. Now in a heat spell they are creating chilled beet soup garnished with cucumbers, green olive, gammelgarden yogurt and salmon roe.
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway
Summer Show at Clark Art Institute
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Nikolai Astrup is considered one of Norway’s most important artists, yet he is largely unknown outside of his homeland. Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, on view June 19 through September 19, 2021, features more than eighty-five works and celebrates this brilliant painter, printmaker, and horticulturalist.
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Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Playwright Jeanne Takata’s one-man, biographical drama “Hold These Truths” beautifully captures Gordon Hirabayashi’s courage and sacrifice in challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066, which consigned Japanese-Americans, including those who were American citizens, to internment camps during World War II.
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Horace D. Ballard Appointed to Harvard Art Museums
Was a Curator for Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Horace D. Ballard is the new Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, effective September 1, 2021. Ballard is currently curator of American art at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was previously assistant curator from 2017 to 2019.
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Tania Leon Wins 2021 Pulitzer for Music
Stride Premiered by the NY Philharmonic Before Pandemic Struck
By: - Jun 12th, 2021Tania Leon has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for music for Stride, commissionedb by Project 19 of the New York Philharmonic. The project commissioned work by women composers.
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A Different Approach to Annie
Area Stage Company's Immersive Production
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Area Stage mounts 'Annie' with eight actors, all of them adults. The production takes place inside a speakeasy. This immersive 'Annie' is yet another triumph for visionary theater artist Giancarlo Rodaz. The production runs through July 4.
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MFA Exhibits Acquisitions
New Light: Encounters and Connections
By: - Jun 14th, 2021This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtaposes each contemporary work with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history.
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Fuller Craft Museum Presents International Exhibition,
Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Developed in partnership with Fuller Craft Museum, Plymouth College of Art, and The Box (both in Plymouth, England), Another Crossing brings together artists from the United States and Europe for a global, cross-cultural effort that examines a pivotal event in world history.
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Jacob's Pillow
Global Pillow Available Until June 19
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Did you miss Global Pillow this weekend? There's still time to watch this global celebration of dance!
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Miroslav Antic’s Conceptual Realism
Brave New Work
By: - Jun 15th, 2021All phases of the oeuvre have been interesting going back decades to our first encounters. Trained in Europe there has been an intriguing cultural confluence of L'art pompier, formalism, conceptualism, Americana, and pop. Imagine a painting conflating Bougereau, Malevich, Duchamp, Warhol and Rosenquist. Miroslav Antic sent images of work created during the pandemic.
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
Pandemic Statements Directed by Cari Ann Shim Sham
By: - Jun 18th, 2021The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna) announces a special sneak-peek of the film "pandemic statements," directed by cari ann shim sham* with a pre-show musical performance featuring accordionist Sarah Bellows, and a post show Q&A with the "pandemic statements collaborative” in the mowna party room. The event will take place virtually on June 25th at 8 pm Eastern Time. Tickets for this event are sliding scale, pay what you wish, and include access to the 2021 mowna Biennial exhibition.
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Juneteenth At Shaker Village
Celebrating BLack Shakers
By: - Jun 18th, 2021Beginning in the eighteenth century, the Shakers welcomed many African Americans into their communities. The Shakers believed that all were equal in the eyes of God, and allowed anyone to join their communities, provided that they turned over their property and all material wealth once they committed to communal life.
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Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions
Online Films from The Yale Center for British Art
By: - Jun 21st, 2021The Yale Center for British Art opens a student-curated online exhibition that showcases four decades of experimental British filmmaking. The result is the Center’s first exhibition presented exclusively online. Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions features four short films. All four films can be viewed exclusively on the Center’s website from June 21 through August 23, 2021.
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The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
Produced by California's Pear Theatre
By: - Jun 21st, 2021With their fully-staged production of Christopher Chen’s work, kudos to Mountain View’s Pear Theatre for leading the way in the return to indoor theater after 15 months of pandemic-imposed darkness. The adventuresome small company not only offers socially-distanced indoor performances to a play with a full cast, but also outdoor performances and online streaming, to accommodate all manner of theater lover. Hallelujah!
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Mount's Summer Lecture Series
Women on Women
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home announces its line-up for the 2021-2021 Summer Lecture Series. Now in its 28th year, the Summer Lecture series bring leading biographer and historians to the Berkshires. This year’s series will New York Times bestselling author Janice P. Nimura, Pulitzer-prize winner author Debby Applegate, and Biographer Sydney Ladensohn Stern.
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Cowboy by Layon Gray
Bass Reeves First Black U.S. Deputy Marshall
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021Layon Gray's historical drama "Cowboy" tells the tale of the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal. The play is Off-Broadway-bound. The world premiere production at the National Black Theatre Festival in 2019 sold out its run in a few hours. The current Miami production is nearing its closing weekend, and has been selling out .
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Shaker Village Update
South Family Trail Opens July 17
By: - Jun 25th, 2021In 1818 the Hancock Shakers established the South Family to handle the overflow of new members. Also known as the "Young Believers’ Order," South Family members lived before committing fully to the Church and community. They closed the South Family in 1849. In celebration of the opening of the South Family Trail on Saturday July 17, there will be member reception and interpretive walk starting at 10AM.
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Close Encounters with Music in the Berkshires
Yehuda Hanani Programs for Listening Pleasure
By: - Jun 27th, 2021One of the treasures of the Berkshires is Close Encounters with Music, the brainchild of premiere cellist Yehuda Hanani. Close Encounters performs in nooks and crannies around the Berkshires and also in more prominent venues like the modern Osawa Hall designed by William Rawn of Boston, who went on to create much the same successful combination of indoor and outdoor space in Sonoma County, California. Concerts are performed in the charming turn-of the-century Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. Conceived by Joseph Mcarthur Vance, this hall was brilliantly updated by Hugh Hardy.
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Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
Free MFA Admission July 17-18
By: - Jun 29th, 2021Ekua Holmes (born 1955) is an artist, community activist and lifelong resident of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood whose body of work explores themes of childhood, family bonds, memory and resilience. This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes, focused on her award-winning children’s book illustrations, which reveal stories of self-determination, love and community.
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Images Cinema Event in Williamstown
Sneak Preview of Hudson Falls
By: - Jun 29th, 2021Images Cinema will host a “sneak preview” of the first episode of Hudson Falls, a new comedy/drama/mystery series, on Wednesday, July 21st at 7:30 PM. This special event will be a fundraiser for the nonprofit theater and will include an onstage conversation with the cast and the creator/producer of the show, independent TV/movie producer Elias Plagianos of Clarkstown, New York.
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Kaleidoscapes and Sights Unseen by J. Alexander Baker
North Adams Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Jul 02nd, 2021“Kaleidoscapes and Sights Unseen”, an exhibition by photographer J. Alexander Baker, at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, is a series of semi-abstract waterside scenes of rivers that reveal unexpected patterns hidden within the natural world. Baker’s digital manipulation of limited color palettes, reflection, repetition and focus transform the Hudson, and other rivers, into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes that exist in the space between observed reality and imagination - "Riparian Kaleidoscapes".
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Short New Play Festival
New York's Red Bull Theater Company
By: - Jul 06th, 2021Red Bull theater company's 11th Annual Short New Play Festival will take place virtually on Monday, July 12. A recording of the livestream will be available until 7 p.m. ET on Friday, July 16. This year's theme is "Restoration." Red Bull is a professional company in New York City. It “brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences.”
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Tiny House By Michael Gotch
Streamed by Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Jul 09th, 2021Playwright Michael Gotch uses the current trend toward tiny houses – those houses that are under 500 square feet (and often smaller) that forces closeness and massive downsizing of possessions.
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