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Frida Kahlo at the Rose Art Museum
Three Self Portraits
By: - Mar 08th, 2022The Rose Art Museum presents an intimate display of three self-portraits by the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), generously loaned from private collections. Framing the paintings are photographs of Kahlo taken by her beloved father, Guillermo Kahlo (1871-1941), and her close friend and lover Nicholas Muray (1892-1965).
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The Chinese Lady at The Public Theater
Premiere by Barrington Stage Arrives in New York
By: - Mar 07th, 2022The Chinese Lady produced by Ma Yi Theater Company and The Public Theatre has arrived in New York. This production was created for its world premiere by The Barrington Stage Company and Ma Yi. Written by Lloyd Sun, Ralph B. Pena directs. Women’s history month is the occasion for this mounting.
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Verdi's Otello
At Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Mar 07th, 2022Despite its musical and dramatic excellence, “Otello” has never achieved the audience popularity of “Aida” or Verdi’s great middle-period trio of “La Traviata,” “Il Trovatore,” or “Rigoletto,” which are among the most performed operas year after year.
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Schwanda at Komische Oper, Berlin
The Bagpipe Player
By: - Mar 07th, 2022After a slow opening in Praha, Czech Republic, in 1927 Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe player) by Jaromir Weinberger turned into a huge success around the Western World - and before Hitler came to power.
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Talk to Your People by Dan Hoyle
Produced by The Marsh Theater
By: - Mar 06th, 2022“Talk to Your People” is a deserving show. One improvement would be if Dan Hoyle lost his facial hair for the duration. It renders a visual sameness to each depiction that can’t be overcome with wardrobe and accessories, and temporary facial hair could be applied as wanted for particular characters.
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Great Barrington's Carrie Chen Gallery
Exhibits Anton Ginzburg and Christina Kruse
By: - Mar 04th, 2022The Carrie Chen Gallery presents The buildings, piled so casually from March 5 – April 3, 2022. This exhibition unites Anton Ginzburg’s abstract paintings with Christina Kruse’s fantastic imaginary worlds and layered constructions under the poetic title taken from the late poet laureate John Ashbery of Hudson, NY.
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Gordon Getty Premiers a New Opera in New York
New York City Opera and Festival Napa Valley Co-Present
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022The opera by Gordon Getty, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, had its New York premiere as an opera reimagined for film. Co-presented by New York City Opera (NYCO) and Festival Napa Valley, Getty’s fourth opera is based on the popular 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips and other stories by James Hilton.
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Soundings: New Music at the Clark
in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022The Clark Art Institute debuts Soundings: New Music at the Clark, a concert series presented in collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. On Saturday, March 19 at 3 pm, Soundings: Some Favored Nook, the first concert of the series, takes place in the Clark’s Michael Conforti Pavilion
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This Bitter Earth at TheaterWorks
A Thought Provoking Play
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022Neil and Jesse are two gay men who meet in NYC in 2012. This Bitter Earth shows us the story of their relationship through 2015.
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More About Ukrainian Writer and Artist Julia Kissina
Digging Deeper
By: - Mar 02nd, 2022When Bill Wadsworth sent images and asked what I thought the response was to post Ukrainian Writer and Artist Julia Kissina. Calling attention to this artist in exile could not have been more timely and relevant. It evoked significant reader responses and raised basic questions. This second posting addresses that interest. Many have asked where they may view the work and there was a query from a curator regarding a possible exhibition.
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Gordon Getty Preludes His New Opera
Goodbye Mr. Chips Prmeieres at Walter Reade Theater
By: - Mar 01st, 2022Gordon Getty is his own man, as composer, librettist and supporter of the arts. His new opera, Goodbye Mr. Chilps, premieres on film on March 2nd at the Walter Reade Theatre. Berkshire Fine Arts asked a few questions.
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Ukrainian Artist Julia Kissina
Works on Paper
By: - Mar 01st, 2022The Ukrainian, Julia Kissina is quite well known and established in Germany and Russia and does work in all kinds of media, including as a performance artist and fiction writer. She writes in Russian and has had a number of books published there and in Germany.
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First Down at 59e59 Theaters
Dramatizing Protest by Beleaguered Minorities
By: - Feb 28th, 2022First Down is a terrific new play by Sevan now running at the 59e59 Theatres. Johanna McKeon directs the quartet to give us insight into the pain caused outsiders in the United States by people who were outsiders themselves when they arrived.
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Winter Theatre at Barrington Stage Company
11th annual 10X10 New Play Festival
By: - Feb 28th, 2022During the dead of winter, the arts in Pittsfield come to life with a festival. This is the 11th year of the annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company. The works were selected from some 200 plus submissions many of which trumped Trump.
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Sister Act
A co-production in South Florida
By: - Feb 27th, 2022A co-production of Sister Act is a divine treat in South Florida. MNM Theatre Company, along with North End Theater Company, and the City of Lauderhill are the presenters. "Sister Act," the stage musical, is faithful to the film while offering something fresh and new. The co-production runs through March 6.
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Queen Lear at Gorki Theater - Berlin, Germany
A perhaps foreboding production for Europe/World
By: - Feb 26th, 2022Everything is upside down in this production. A faint semblance to Shakespeare's King Lear remains as in a fever dream, or better yet as a trip beyond borders of human sanity.
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Music Man on Broadway
Thrilling Hugh Jackman
By: - Feb 26th, 2022After all my complaints, you may wonder why I recommend Music Man on Broadway so highly. Easy. Hugh Jackman and more Hugh Jackman, the glorious score and the sweetly romantic story.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Seven Solo Exhibitions
By: - Feb 25th, 2022Seven new solo exhibits will open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, March 12. The artists featured are M. Carmen Lane, Roberto Visani, Yvette Molina, Mildred Beltré Martinez, Sachiko Akiyama, Louisa Chase, and Anne Spalter.
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MFA Acquires Painting by Remedios Varo
Tailleur pour dames a Surrealist Masterpiece
By: - Feb 25th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the painting Tailleur pour dames (1957), a major work by Remedios Varo (1908–1963), a leader of the Surrealist movement in the Americas. In order to purchase Varo’s masterpiece the Museum is deaccessioning three 20th-century paintings: Abiquiu Trees VII (1953) and A Sunflower from Maggie (1937), both by Georgia O’Keeffe, and On a Shaker Theme (1956) by Charles Sheeler.
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As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War
At Clark Art Institute
By: - Feb 24th, 2022The Clark Art Institute’s latest exhibition presents four centuries of war imagery from Europe and the United States in As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War, on view March 5–May 30, 2022. Spanning European and American art from 1520–1920, the exhibition of prints, drawings, and photographs shows how artists have portrayed periods of military conflict.
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A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing
Exhibition at Hancock Shaker Village
By: - Feb 24th, 2022In its first major exhibition on contemporary Asian art, A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing is a campus-wide exhibition opening May 30 at Hancock Shaker Village. The exhibition features three artists—Yusuke Asai of Japan, Kimsooja of Korea, and Pinaree Sanpitak of Thailand – who explore links between 19th century Shaker art and contemporary Asian art.
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Today Is My Birthday By Susan Soon He Stanton
At Yale Rep
By: - Feb 24th, 2022While Today Is My Birthday is funny and can be touching, at times you wish author Susan Soon He Stanton had focused the work more. Many of the characters are interesting. Emily’s NYC friend, Halina could be a fascinating character but just when we begin to get involved in why she is doing what she is doing, the voice mail or call ends and we are on to something else.
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Salty by A.J.Clauss
Desert Ensemble Theatre (DET) of Palm Springs
By: - Feb 24th, 2022There is always humor and empathy to ease the pain of life’s ups and downs. The trick is to find it. Desert Ensemble Theatre (DET) of Palm Springs found it in their delightful production of “Salty”, written by A.J.Clauss that is innovatively staged by Artistic Director Jerome Elliott.
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72nd Berlinale - Germany
February 10-20, 2022
By: - Feb 24th, 2022Chapeau! An amazing undertaking has drawn to a close in Berlin, Germany. Amid still active Covid-19, Marietta Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, the heads of the film festival Berlinale, brought about the 72nd international film festival in real time.
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Repertorio Espanol Mounts La Dama Boba
Lope de Vega Amuses and Moves
By: - Feb 22nd, 2022Lope deVega is not simply setting us up for a good laugh. The play takes a sharp look at the meaning of the ideal woman. What attributes are truly important? Is there room in marriage for the intellectually driven woman? Is there room for the woman who cannot enhance her husband's social standing? Is economic security the real motive for our emotional commitments?
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