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  • Literary Diagnoses Gay

    Thomas Mann, Thomas Eakins and Henry James

    By: Susan Hall - Jan 20th, 2022

    Colm Toibin's The Magician, his story aboutf Thomas Mann, portrays a man constantly glancing at other men. Does the embrace of celebrated artists as gay add anything to our understanding of great men?

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    At San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

    By: Victor Cordell - Jan 21st, 2022

    This touring musical brings all of the glitzy production values of Broadway.  Staging, which combines extensive back-lit projection along with movable scenery, is bright, colorful and appealing, especially the brilliant landscape diorama made entirely from candy.  The play is highly episodic with different musical twists in the introductions of each winner of the free tour. 

  • Wellfleet Oysters on Sale in North Adams, MA

    All About Oysters

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Jan 22nd, 2022

    It’s known from coast to coast that Wellfleet Oysters are one of the best! When we saw the sign for Wellfleet Oysters for $ 0.99/each at our nearest grocery store, Big Y, in North Adams – we had to buy a dozen.

  • MCLA Gallery 51's come inside.

    Exhibition by Joshua AM Ross

    By: MCLA - Jan 27th, 2022

    MCLA Gallery 51 is pleased to announce its next exhibition, come inside. Opening reception on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022 from 5-7PM. The exhibition will run from February 4 - May 20, 2022.

  • Rx

    Boca Stage in South Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Jan 31st, 2022

    Boca Stage, a professional South Florida company formerly known as Primal Forces, has mounted a funny and touching production of the satiric Rx. The play lightly satirizes the pharmaceutical industry. The production runs through Feb. 6.

  • Five Guys Named Moe

    Playhouse on Park in West Hartford

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jan 31st, 2022

    Terrific performances, wonderful choreography and close harmonies make it almost certain that you’ll thoroughly enjoy Five Guys Named Moe now at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford through Sunday, Feb. 27.

  • Jacob's Pillow 2022

    Newly Renovated Ted Shawn Theater

    By: Pillow - Feb 02nd, 2022

    Festival 2022, which will feature 10 weeks of on-site programming, opens June 22, and runs through August 28, attracting dance audiences from across the globe to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. The season-opening Gala will be held on June 18. The recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and the gala program will be announced on March 15.

  • Turner’s Modern World

    100 Works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    By: MFA - Feb 02nd, 2022

    Opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), this spring, Turner’s Modern World brings together more than 100 works by one of Britain’s greatest artists—including paintings, watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks—drawn from museums across the U.S. and Great Britain.

  • Black Chapel for London's Serpentine Pavilion

    Chicago­ Based Artist Theaster Gates

    By: Serpentine - Feb 03rd, 2022

    Drawing inspiration from the significance of the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, Theaster Gates’s Pavilion will pay homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions. While the structure of the Pavilion will predominantly be made of wood, the Pavilion’s design alludes to the performative and meditative qualities of a small chapel

  • Remembering Todd McKee

    Whimsical Boston Artist

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 04th, 2022

    The Boston art community is saddened to learn of the passing of Todd McKee. He was an artist known for wit and whimsy in his work, primarily watercolor on paper.  

  • Close Encounters With Music

    Folk and Baroque in Great Barrington

    By: Close - Feb 04th, 2022

    Folk and Baroque—Performed Live at Historic Saint James Place in Downtown Great Barrington, MA, February 26, 2021 at 6 PM  

  • The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance

    Virtual Programming This Spring

    By: CTD - Feb 04th, 2022

    The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance (CTD) is presenting an exciting mix of theatre and dance, virtual and in-person. CTD presents student and world-class artists celebrating diverse and challenging theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond. As a community service, all our virtual programming is free and open to all.

  • Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

    San Francisco Playhouse

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 04th, 2022

    “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is well produced; highly provocative; dense with scholarly detail; and even has a few unexpected turnings of its own.  But be prepared for something that may be outside your normal comfort zone.  

  • Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith

    At Long Wharf Theater

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 05th, 2022

    Anna Deavere Smith was a pioneer in what is often referred to as verbatim drama; the use of transcripts from interviews to create a work that explores an incident of social importance. She has used this form frequently, most recently with Notes from the Field about the school-to-prison pipeline.

  • Dewey Hall's Sourdough Bread Baking Competition

    Tasty Event in the Berkshires

    By: Dewey - Feb 09th, 2022

    Dewey Hall is to hold a sourdough bread baking competition on Friday, March 4th. Attendees will be invited to sample the contestants' breads, wine from DéPart, beer from Big Elm Brewery, and cheese from Rubiner’s Cheesemongers, and have the opportunity to win loaves of freshly baked sourdough bread via a raffle.

  • Palo Alto Players’Men on Boats

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 09th, 2022

    By leaving much to the playgoer’s imagination, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus came up with a solution in her play “Men on Boats.”  She figured - what if we present the action without boats and without a river and with only rudimentary set and props?  And just for fun, how about as a final conceit that we eliminate the men?  So, there you have it – a cast of all females and non-binaries with bare-bones staging, and the curtain can be raised.

  • Lynn Nottage at Lincoln Center Theater

    Intimate Apparel with a Score by Ricky Ian Gordon

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 09th, 2022

    Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LCT, each tugging for their own interests. 

  • Save on FreshGrass MoCA Tickets

    All You Need Is Love and Bluegrass

    By: MoCA - Feb 10th, 2022

    Prices for FreshGrass | North Adams increase in two weeks from $129 up to $149—on February 24 at 11:59pm—so snag your tickets now before you miss the chance to save $20 on each!

  • The Duration

    World Premiere to Open at Palm Beach Dramaworks.

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 11th, 2022

    The Duration, by Bruce Graham, will experience its world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. The production will run from Feb. 16-March 6. The Duration will mark the second play that Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts.

  • Ottensamer and Bax Perform at Carnegie Hall

    Music as Song Delights

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 11th, 2022

    Alessio Bax and Andrea Ottensamer, two consummate artists, performed together and individually in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.  They both seek to help us hear the origins of music as a communicative and an expressive medium.  Yet there is nothing ponderous about their approaches. 

  • Music in Common's Black Legacy Project

    At Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre

    By: MIC - Feb 11th, 2022

    On March 6, the Black Legacy Project will make its world premiere at  the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. The evening includes a preview screening of the documentary short about the Project produced by OUTPOST, a concert, and a community conversation. Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones, Annie Guthrie, Diego Mongue, and Eric Reinhardt are just some of the performers.

  • Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio

    At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 14th, 2022

    Heartbeat Opera is a New York based company committed to making opera for the Now. Years before George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, they adapted Fidelio, Beethoven’s sole opera, to prison life today. 

  • Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints

    At Williams College Museum of Art

    By: WCMA - Feb 14th, 2022

    The Williams College Museum of Art presents Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints, on view from February 18 through June 11, 2022. It is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s printmaking to date, including single prints and series, for a total of over 200 individual prints.

  • Metropolitan Opera’s Ariadne Auf Naxos

    Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12

    By: Clark - Feb 15th, 2022

    The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Ariadne Auf Naxos screens at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12, at 12:55 pm in the latest installment of The Met: Live in HD.

  • Garden Fit on PBS

    Combines Gardening and Muscle Mindfulness

    By: PBS - Feb 15th, 2022

    A new public television series premiering March 2022 presents the opportunity for people to take care of their bodies, while taking care of their gardens. ‘GardenFit’ is the first television show to help gardeners lead a healthier lifestyle through mindful movements they can use in the garden—and beyond. An episode was shot in the Berkshires.

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