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  • Intimate Apparel

    A Palm Beach Dramaworks Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 04th, 2022

    Lynn Nottage's drama, Intimate Apparel is a fine fit at Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD). The professional, nonprofit company's production runs through April 17. PBD's production, fittingly, takes place in the company's intimate Don & Ann Brown Theatre.

  • Simon Dinnerstein at the Miller Theatre

    Goldberg Variations on a Brand New Yamaha Piano

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 04th, 2022

    Simon Dinnerstein performed Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Miller Theatre. She is a magician at the keyboard, giving us all the spiritual richness of the work along with great joy.

  • Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes

    At Long Wharf

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 02nd, 2022

    I found much to like about this show which focuses on Latinx sisters who turn to one of these shows – called Flip It and List It —  to sell their family home. The home was built by their great grandfather after he arrived from Mexico in the late 1800s and has been passed down through the generations.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 01st, 2022

    Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works.  This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work

  • Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall

    American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 31st, 2022

    Leave it to Leon Botstein, America’s great educator, to bring Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige to Carnegie Hall, where is premiered in 1943 as a fundraiser for the Russian war effort, (The world turns.) Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson and Langston Hughes were in attendance that evening. Now Botstein conducting is cool.  He often listens and taps his foot, slightly swaying to the improvisatory sections of works performed

  • Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village

    A Legacy of Major Accomplishments

    By: Shaker - Mar 30th, 2022

    The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced today that director Jennifer Trainer Thompson will step down in July. Thompson has been widely credited for her transformational leadership of the museum and is recognized as an innovator in the museum community. Since her appointment in September 2016, Hancock Shaker Village has grown in size and stature and has been infused, as The Boston Globe noted last summer, “with great gusts of contemporary vitality”.

  • Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints

    Williams College Museum of Art

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 30th, 2022

    The building of wall drawings at MASS MoCA has become a pilgrimage site for Sol LeWitt one of the foremost artists of his generation. They are on semi-permanent display with a contract for 25 years. For a more limited time, through June 11, there is the opportunity to experience the work on a more personal and intimate manner with Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints at the Williams College Museum of Art.

  • Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker

    Produced by Custom Made Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 29th, 2022

    Annie Baker has established herself with a naturalistic stream of plays, including the trilogy taking place in the town of Shirley, Vermont, of which this play is a member.  These are narratives about ordinary people doing ordinary things, often written and acted with such uninflected manner as to elevate boredom and long silences as virtues.

  • Spring Lambs at Hancock Shaker Village

    Season Opens Saturday, April 16

    By: Shaker - Mar 29th, 2022

    “Spring at Hancock Shaker Village is a joyous time,” said Director Jennifer Trainer Thompson. “Our farm literally ‘springs’ to life and there may be nothing cuter than a baby animal. When you add to that 20 historic buildings, and a lot of creative programming --- from farm talks to concerts to the spiritual richness of brooms --- you find a union with content that creates an unparalleled experience. Welcome back, and welcome to our 2022 season!”

  • Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage

    Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 29th, 2022

    Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.

  • Union Protests Against Whitney Museum

    To Leaflet During Gala Opening

    By: Union - Mar 29th, 2022

    Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art will be outside in front of the Museum for tomorrow evening’s VIP opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, handing out leaflets with information about union negotiations. The Union, consisting of almost two hundred professional, facilities and visitor services workers has been negotiating for several months for a first contract.

  • Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera

    The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.

  • Covering 126 Years of the Boston Marathon

    Exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts

    By: Arthur Dion - Mar 28th, 2022

    Since its 1897 founding, the Boston Marathon has regularly transformed in its appearance, its demographics, and its meaning.  As its 126th running on April 18 nears, The Lotvin Family Gallery examines how the marathon’s changes have been reflected in the pages of another Boston institution, The Boston Globe, now celebrating its 150th year of publication.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works.  This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.

  • Ben Butler

    Boca Stage in Boca Raton

    By: Aaron Krause - Mar 28th, 2022

    "Ben Butler" is a comedy that takes place at the beginning of the Civil War. The play, by Richard Strand, is part comedy, part historical drama, and part biography. Boca Stage is presenting the play through April 10.

  • Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet

    Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    “Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players. It premieres in New York on April 1. The author of the book that inspired the work, Zsófia Bán, is arriving from Hungary for the performance.

  • La Cage aux Folles

    Produced by Altarena Playhouse

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 27th, 2022

    The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book.   Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.

  • Little Girl Blue by Laiona Michelle

    Nina Simone Lives Again in New York

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 27th, 2022

    Laiona Michelle inhabits and projects the great American soul singer, social activist and classical pianist Nina Simone in a compelling stage show.  Designed as two of the evenings Nina Simone actually created, mixing storytelling and moving melodies, Michelle brings the Little Girl Blue to life.

  • Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

    2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 25th, 2022

    In action that shifts back and forth between scenarios, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’ clever 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning “Water by the Spoonful” follows two seemingly independent threads through Act 1.  One is a chat group for recovering cocaine addicts.  The other concerns two young adult, Puerto Rican American cousins bereaving the passing of one’s mother.   The threads will intertwine in Act 2.

  • Anastasia

    Non-equity National Touring Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Mar 24th, 2022

    A non-equity national touring production of Anastasia is traveling the country. The production has included a stop at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This production is a visual delight, and also delivers emotionally. For information about touring stops, go to https://anastasiathemusical.com/tour.

  • Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

    Moved to Jazz Month in April

    By: Ed Bride - Mar 24th, 2022

    Pittsfield CityJazz Festival has moved from our traditional mid-October date to become part of the nationwide Jazz Appreciation Month activities, which take place every year in April. The music starts on April 23.

  • Curator David S. Areford to Lecture at WCMA

    Jewish Dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s Art

    By: WCMA - Mar 24th, 2022

    In conjunction with "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints," exhibition curator David S. Areford gives a lecture exploring the Jewish dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s art through five projects—two structures, two wall drawings, a work of architecture, and a site-specific installation—which together represent the most socially and historically contingent of LeWitt’s career.  

  • Open Studios at MASS MoCA

    March 25. 5 to 7 PM

    By: MoCA - Mar 23rd, 2022

    We are very excited to invite you to our first Open Studios in 2 years! As the weather gets warmer, and things are feeling safer, we are looking forward to opening our doors to you to get to know this month’s artist cohort.

  • Escape from the Asylum by Patricia Milton

    Produced by Central Works

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 23rd, 2022

    With her most recent world premiere, “Escape from the Asylum,” Patricia Milton provides a sequel that is starting to suggest a series of crime-procedural, period-pieces of the sort that would run on PBS.  Like its predecessor, this comedic play charms with quirky characters, clever dialog, feminist issues, and a plot twist leading to a surprise ending. 

  • Otto Frank the Father of Anne Frank

    Written by Roger Guenveur Smith

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 23rd, 2022

    Otto Frank was the father of Anne Frank.  He gave his daughter a blank autograph book on her 13th birthday in which Anne diligently recorded her thoughts and experiences from mundane activities to pathos to hope over the next two years.  Otto retrieved the diary after World War II and had it translated and published.  It would become the biggest selling non-fiction book in the world after the Bible.  In English, its title is “The Diary of a Young Girl.”

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