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IATI Theater Presents Bloom
By Marco Antonio Rodriguez
By: - Apr 19th, 2022The story is placed in “the not so distant future”, a dystopian exposition of the legal persecution of people with non-binary sexual and gender orientation. Julia is completely rejecting of her son's sexual reality. Roan has been taken away by the authorities, imprisoned and tortured. We learn that neighbors, family members and 'friends' have been responsible for turning him in. It is only a matter of hours before he will be picked up and returned to prison.
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Next to Normal
Opens Season at Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Apr 18th, 2022Next to Normal which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama is opening the season at Westport Country Playhouse through Sunday, April 24. The musical by Tom Kitts (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) tells the story of an American family facing a serious mental health issue.
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Jeremy Gill's Motherwhere Premiers in New York
Parker Quartet and New York Classical Players Shine
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Jeremy Gill’s Motherwhere premiered with the two stellar ensembles, the Parker Quartet and the New York Classical Player, performing. The evening began with Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile from his first string quartet. Madeline Fayette performed the movement exquisitely. She is known for her phrasing and the beauty of her tones. Gill's new rod followed.
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Gil Riley at Real Eyes Gallery
Adams Gallery Launches Summer Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Real Eyes Gallery previously exhibited Gil Riley’s show Peak Machine during the summer of 2020. We hope you will join us to celebrate this colorful, optimistic world. Gil Riley’s imagery is based on a psychomagically constructed myth: Liontamer’s Paradise. Her book of the same name was published in 2016 by American Typewriter Press. This show will include pieces painted and printed on wood and fabric, monoprint and limited edition books, and small wooden sculptures.
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Rabatt, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
A Serious Issue as a Farce
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Rabatt (discount), the newest production at the Gorki Theater in Berlin is a hilarious farce about a very serious issue – the burials of poor people in the world of the well to do.
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Boston's Lyric Stage
Program for 2022/23 Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Unforgettable moments, laughter, discovery, and joy, he Lyric Stage 2022/23 Season is a season to share.
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BAM Presents Jamie Lloyd and Martin Crimp
James McAvoy, a New Cyrano
By: - Apr 14th, 2022In the beginning was the word, said John in the Bible. This was also said about Cyrano de Bergerac. Jamie Lloyd and James McAvoy follow up with a version of Edmund Rostand’s play which celebrates the word as it is spoken today. No longer does it depend on a continuously mellifluous voice.
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Broadway Across America
2022-23 Season for Miami and Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Apr 14th, 2022Broadway Across America has announced the 2022-23 line-ups for Broadway in Miami and Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale. Among the shows, audiences will be able to see "Hamilton" again in Ft. Lauderdale, and "Wicked" in Miami. Perhaps the hottest show on Broadway, "Six" will play in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
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Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater
Biography by Alexis Greene
By: - Apr 13th, 2022Alexis Greene is the author and editor of numerous books about theater, including The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway, written with Julie Taymor, and the biography Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway. In addition to writing and editing books about women and theater, Greene’s career spans acting, theater criticism and teaching. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Endlings by Celine Song
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Apr 12th, 2022The main subjects of “Endlings” seem like inspiration for the kind of article you would see in “Parade” magazine – “World’s Most Unusual Occupations.” Three Korean women, aged 78 to 93, are the last of a dying breed in a centuries-old occupation.
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Gong Lum's Legacy at New Federal Theatre
Elizabeth Van Dyke Directs World Premiere by Charles L. White
By: - Apr 11th, 2022Gong Lum's Legacy is presented by Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company. Written by Charles L. White. Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The world is still Jim Crow's. We can peek into to the the lives of those oppressed by the system, both the African Americans and the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.
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Cats
Non-equity, National Touring Production
By: - Apr 10th, 2022A quality national, non-equity production of Cats is touring the country. The production's most recent stop was the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. Cats delivers emotionally.
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Guys and Dolls
South Florida's MNM Theatre Company
By: - Apr 09th, 2022MNM Theatre Company achieves mixed results with its current production of "Guys and Dolls." The production at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center runs through April 16. MNM Theatre Company is an award-winning, not-for-profit, professional group.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History
Review by Martin Mugar
By: - Apr 09th, 2022Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.
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Fefu And Her Friends
produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Apr 08th, 2022In 1977, María Irene Fornés’ innovative “Fefu and Her Friends” replicated the notion of an all-female cast but flips the script on all of those dimensions. It concerns a reunion of a group of friends gathered to rehearse a presentation to be given to a charity; themes are varied, including women’s relationships with women, which was pretty daring at the time; the single setting is Fefu’s house; action takes place in one day; and the characters, if a little wacky, are grounded in realism.
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Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi
Co-produced by Marin Theatre Company and A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle
By: - Apr 08th, 2022Yussef El Guindi’s new play deftly delves into a constellation of differences – not only cultural, but marital, economic, power, gender, and generational – some between cultures and some within. The result is a lively dramedy that reveals the causes and consequences of the cracks in the American couple’s marriage.
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Off Their Backs:
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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1776 Revival at A.R.T in May
Then Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre in September
By: - Apr 08th, 2022American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Co-presented with Roundabout Theatre Company (RTC), the production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 17; opens officially on Thursday, May 26; and plays through Sunday, July 24, 2022.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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Sam Gilliam: Full Circle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
By: - Apr 07th, 2022This spring, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present an exhibition by pioneering abstractionist artist Sam Gilliam. Between May 25 and Sept. 4, “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle” will pair a series of circular paintings (or tondos) created in 2021 with “Rail” (1977), a landmark painting in the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
At Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Director Layne has cast 22 performers to tell the achingly poignant story of Cyrano and Roxane. There are a couple metaphors on the foibles and folly of the human condition that run throughout that could easily recall a memory or two bringing misty eyes to those in the audience who can still relate. Yes. It’s somewhat of a tragedy masquerading as a comedy in dead earnest Love is like that sometimes.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Apr 07th, 2022The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years.
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August: Osage County
By Tracy Letts at San Jose Stage
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Playwright Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Award winning play concerns the family reunion from hell. The family doge, Beverly, was a prominent poet in his younger days, but settled into a long life as a disgruntled teacher and acknowledged but likeable alcoholic. Several days after his unexplained disappearance, Violet, his wife and family doyenne, musters the troops.
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Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
God Is Not Bashful
By: - Apr 05th, 2022Gott Ist Nicht Schuechtern (God is not bashful) received its re-opening at the New Stage of the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin at the end of March 2022. It is now more appropriate with the war raging in Ukraine.
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Suddenly Last Summer
At Island City Stage
By: - Apr 05th, 2022South Florida theater fans have a chance to see a production of an infrequently-staged Tennessee Williams play titled "Suddenly Last Summer." The production runs through April 17. Some may recall the story from the 1959 film with the same title, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.
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