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Passing Strange by Stew
Produced by Shotgun Players
By: - Mar 20th, 2022With “Passing Strange,” musician/playwright Stew created a multi-faceted coming-of-age story set to music and verse. The music is a mashup of rock era styles that never hits a false note. Both song lyrics and spoken sections set to music drive the narrative forward.
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Vam Morrison at Tanglewood
First Appearance Sunday, September 4
By: - Mar 21st, 2022On Sunday, September 4 at 7 p.m., Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet, and multi-instrumentalist Van Morrison performs for the first time at Tanglewood.
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Tanzplattform, HAU, Berlin, Germany
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) hosts dance again
By: - Mar 22nd, 2022Berlin is dancing again, despite the rumblings of war from the Ukraine. Despite this horrible situation Germany tries to keep going. Against all odds, the Tanzplattform Deutschland returned in 2022.
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Escape from the Asylum by Patricia Milton
Produced by Central Works
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022With 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.
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Curator David S. Areford to Lecture at WCMA
Jewish Dimensions of Sol LeWitt’s Art
By: - Mar 24th, 2022In 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.
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Anastasia
Non-equity National Touring Production
By: - Mar 24th, 2022A 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.
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La Cage aux Folles
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 27th, 2022The 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.
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Ben Butler
Boca Stage in Boca Raton
By: - 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.
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Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet
Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales
By: - 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.
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Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Annie 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.
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Jennifer Trainer Thompson Leaving Hancock Shaker Village
A Legacy of Major Accomplishments
By: - Mar 30th, 2022The 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”.
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Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Apr 01st, 2022Michel 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
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Simon Dinnerstein at the Miller Theatre
Goldberg Variations on a Brand New Yamaha Piano
By: - Apr 04th, 2022Simon 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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