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Shakespeare & Company Tickets on Sale
Two Shakespeare Plays and Homer's Iliad
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Shakespeare & Company has announced tickets are on sale now for the three Classic productions of its 45th Season: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, and An Iliad, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare.
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Lynn Nottage at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with a Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Lynn 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.
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What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck
On Tour at the Huntington Theatre
By: - Feb 09th, 2022The Huntington announces Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me, a Broadway hit that is now on its national tour. The production runs from February 22 to March 20, 2022 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Palo Alto Players’Men on Boats
By: - Feb 09th, 2022By 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.
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Dewey Hall's Sourdough Bread Baking Competition
Tasty Event in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Dewey 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.
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The Obama Portraits Tour
At the Museum of FIne Arts, Boston
By: - Feb 09th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents the portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, as part of The Obama Portraits Tour organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
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Armature
World Premiere at South Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Armature is a searing and disturbing new play receiving a commendable world premiere production at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. The production runs through Feb. 27.
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World Premiere Opera in Washington
Four A List Composer/librettist Teams Contribute
By: - Feb 07th, 2022Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.
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The Kind Ones by Miranda Rose Hall
Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - Feb 07th, 2022The Biblically- inspired adage suggests that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and the same could be said of idle minds. With time to spare, mischief finds Miranda Rose Hall’s central character in this compact, 70 minute, two-hander.
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Lynn Nottage Turns to Opera at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 06th, 2022Lynn 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 LTC, each tugging for their own interests.
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Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
At Long Wharf Theater
By: - Feb 05th, 2022Anna 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.
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Authority and Freedom by Jed Perl
Ancient Dichotomy in Art
By: - Feb 05th, 2022At the end of his life did the wrong politics give Auden the possibility of cancelling Yeats’s greatness as a poet. It suggests that behind the concern for art being politically correct is the illness that Nietzsche said awaited our culture as a whole: the waste land grows: Resentment or “Ressentiment” as he used it is the deeply sour well out from which we channel art into predetermined realms of activity. Perl's new book is its diagnosis.
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
San Francisco Playhouse
By: - 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.
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The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Virtual Programming This Spring
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The ’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.
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Close Encounters With Music
Folk and Baroque in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 04th, 2022Folk and Baroque—Performed Live at Historic Saint James Place in Downtown Great Barrington, MA, February 26, 2021 at 6 PM
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Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous
At Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The actress, Anna has returned to the US from Amsterdam where she has lived for 25 years. She left the US after the “Naked Wilson” theater piece she devised and performed became the subject of controversy. Now, she has returned to Atlanta to, she thinks, perform the piece for the last time at a new arts festival.
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Remembering Todd McKee
Whimsical Boston Artist
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The 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.
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Black Chapel for London's Serpentine Pavilion
Chicago Based Artist Theaster Gates
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Drawing 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
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Terence Blanchard's Champion at Boston Lyric Opera
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe to Perform
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.
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2022 Boston Artadia Awards
Grants for Three Artists
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards will annually provide $10,000 in unrestricted funds to three visual artists living and working in the vibrant arts communities of Boston. The Artadia awards are designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen arts communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.
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Knock Me a Kiss by Playwright Charles Smith
Staged Reading by Shakespeare & Company
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022The performance precedes the memorial service and burial of Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irvin, the granddaughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, at the family gravesite at the Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington. Other Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irving Memorial events will be hosted by BRIDGE as part of the Town of Great Barrington's fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Festival, marking a special reparations moment in racial justice organizing.
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World Premiere and Critics’ Favorite Mr. Parent
Streaming by Boston's Lyric Stage
By: - Feb 02nd, 2022After a critically acclaimed run, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces that streaming of the World Premiere production of Mr. Parent by Melinda Lopez with Maurice Emmanuel Parent* and co-conceived and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian° will begin on February 7 and be available through February 20.
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Turner’s Modern World
100 Works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By: - Feb 02nd, 2022Opening 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.
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Jacob's Pillow 2022
Newly Renovated Ted Shawn Theater
By: - Feb 02nd, 2022Festival 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.
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Rafael Mahdavi Trying to Get Home
An Odyssey of Variations on Four Masterpieces
By: - Jan 31st, 2022The artist Rafael Mahdavi speaks several languages and is a citizen of the world. He most identifies with America and Spain but describes himself as an exile. Trying to Get Home is a series of four paintings that convey a spirit quest and odyssey.
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