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ATCA New Play Awards
Critics Organization Announces Winners
By: - Apr 20th, 2022The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) recently announced the winners of new play awards for 2021. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award went to "Poor Clare" by Chiara Atik. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award went to Makasha Copeland for their play, "Extreme Home Makeover."
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The Great Animal Orchestra at Peabody Essex Museum
Collaboration Between Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to announce a seven-week extension of the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Due to the overwhelming popularity, the exhibition will remain on view at PEM through July 10, 2022.
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DigBoston Suspends Print Edition
Plans to Publish On LIne
By: - Apr 22nd, 2022Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have to shut down the print edition of this publication for the second time since March 2020 effective immediately. For those of you that follow the American news industry—its local print markets in particular—this should come as no surprise.
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Confederates by Dominique Morisseau
Signature Theatre Produces Premiere
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Dominique Morisseau has taken a loaded topic, the Big Mamma of black plantation culture, and fixed her in a space during the Civil War mashed up with the present. Big Mamma is bursting out of her role in the 1860s, getting the notion that with gun in hand and books to be read she can be free. In the present, she is a university professor, nurturing a young black student, a white student and a black female assistant anxious for tenure. Tyler Perry and Martin Lawrence have made fun of Big Mamma. The strength of Tennessee Williams’ white Big Mamma in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, comes from the springboard of this icon of plantation life.
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Star of Freedom
World Premiere Musical at Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Star of Freedom has music by Connecticut resident Jeff Blaney and a book by Lawrence Thelen. The piece began life as the concept album Exodus; Executive/Artistic Director Jacqueline Hubbard saw the possibilities and brought it to Thelen to write the book.
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71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards
Honoring Broadway and Off Broadway
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy with nine nominations, followed by the Off-Broadway musicals Harmony and Kimberly Akimbo which earned eight nods each. The most recognized Broadway musicals of the season are MJ the Musical and Paradise Square, with seven nominations each.
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Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard
At Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Apr 27th, 2022The true story of six-time world champion prizefighter Emile Griffith is told in Boston Lyric Opera’s (BLO) new production of Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard (Fire Shut Up in My Bones), with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cristofer.
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A Sense of Place at Real Eyes Gallery
Benefit for Louison House
By: - May 02nd, 2022“A Sense of Place” is a joint effort of North Adams Contemporary (NAC) and Real Eyes Gallery to benefit Louison House. The non profit will received 50% if sales from the exhibition. . NAC is a collaboration of four artists, Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera.
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Moltings a Solo Booth with Odessa Straub
NADA NY Booth 5.15
By: - May 04th, 2022Odessa Straub begins with sourcing and collecting materials, some of which have been in her possession for years and others acquired from online sites, thrift stores, junk yards and discarded refuse. Her searching and selection process is as intensive—and playful—as her making.
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Berkshire Mountain Distillers Cultural Cocktails
Toasting the Arts This Summer
By: - May 04th, 2022Participating cultural organizations include Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Berkshire International Film Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Community Access to the Arts, The Clark, Hancock Shaker Village, Jacob’s Pillow, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, MASS MoCA, The Mount, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, The Trustees and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Guild of Berkshire Artists
Upcoming Events
By: - May 05th, 2022The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.
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American Buffalo by David Mamet
Nick Pepe Makes the Play Live
By: - May 04th, 2022American Buffalo, David Mamet’s great play, is running on Broadway now with a stellar cast. Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss give us Donny, Teach and Bobby, pacing the thrust stage chock full of junk like pieces of junk themselves. Bobby is a junkie. All three men have a false belief that they can alter the downward trajectory of their lives.
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Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet
May at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - May 05th, 2022“Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.
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Sergei Isupov: Past and Present
Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams
By: - May 05th, 2022Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin'
at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - May 08th, 2022There are stars just waiting to explode into supernovas when Bob Fosse’s Dancin' opens in New York during the 2022-2023 season, as director and musical stager Wayne Cilento (who won the Tony Award for his star turn in the original production) brings his revived and re-imagined production back to New York.
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Rose Art Museum
Four Major Acquisitions
By: - May 09th, 2022The Rose Art Museum announced the acquisition of four significant works that will enter the museum’s permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the museum’s endowment, the most recent acquisitions include Jeffrey Gibson’s BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (2021), Barkley L. Hendricks’s photograph Self Portrait with Black Hat (1980–2013), Peter Sacks’s mix-media work Without Name (2020), and Marie Watt’s Forerunner (2020)
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New York City Opera in Bryant Park
Four Free Performances
By: - May 12th, 2022New York City Opera will present a season of four free, live performances this summer as part of their Park Series in Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America. Each performance features City Opera's brightest stars as well as members of the City Opera orchestra and will begin at 7pm on the Bryant Park Stage.
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Victoria Bond's Gulliver Travels to New York
Doug Fitch Discusses His Sets
By: - May 12th, 2022On May 13, Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival and Mostly Modern Projects co-present staged scenes from Victoria Bond's puppet operetta How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct. The production features puppets created by Doug Fitch, the renowned visual artist, designer and director, and libretto by Stephen Greco, prize-winning screen-writer and novelist, complementing the music by Victoria Bond. Fitch also directs the production.
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Water by the Spoonful
A New City Players Production in South Florida
By: - May 16th, 2022Water by the Spoonful is a powerfully symbolic play about moving on from emotional pain and addiction. New City Players' strong production ended on Sunday, May 15.
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Woodstock's Half Million
Excavating What Was Left Behind
By: - May 19th, 2022For two weeks in June, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts will turn into an archeological dig site for students from Binghamton University. Their goal? Uncover the untold stories of Woodstock, and provide insight into the entire experience of the iconic festival.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Four Finalists for Design for Espace Riopelle
By: - May 19th, 2022The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.
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Vincent Giaranno Realist and Muse at Clark Gallery
Quotidian Striving for Sublime
By: - May 19th, 2022Since Courbet the notion of realism has taken on many nuances from then to now. The current exhibition of hyper realism, pulchritide and kitsch by Vincent Gairrano at Clark Gallery is a stretch and arguably a bridge too far.
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Variant 6 at National Sawdust
Celebrating the Release of New Suns
By: - May 22nd, 2022To celebrate the release of their first solo album, Variant 6, a noted a cappella ensemble, performed at National Sawdust on May 20th. This extraordinary group has been heard often embedded in larger groups-The Crossing, Room Full of Teeth, Ekmeles and Seraphic Fire among them. All the members of the group are part of The Crossing. Now we get to hear these virtuoso artists up close and singular.
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The Elliot Norton Awards
Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association
By: - May 23rd, 2022The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,
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VOLT Festival in New York
Plays by Karen Hartman at 59E59 Theaters
By: - May 23rd, 2022Karen Hartman’s work launches VOLT at 59E59 Theaters, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author. Denver Theater Center presented the world premiere musical Rattlesnake Kate, book by Hartman with a score by Neyla Pekarek earlier this year.
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