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The Belle of Amherst
A Remount by Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 25th, 2022More than a year after co-producing a filmed production of "The Belle of Amherst," Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida presents the show live. The Belle of Amherst is a one-performer show about the life of Emily Dickinson. Dickinson, a world-famous poetess, lived from 1830-1886 in Amherst, Mass.
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Which Way To The Stage
Robert W. Wilson Theater Space
By: - May 25th, 2022As the lights go up, standing in front of the stage door of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, we find ourselves in the midst of an intense and rapid rat-a-tat-tat- conversation between Judy, a rather plain-looking, dressed down Judy (Sas Goldberg) and the obviously gay (he makes no bones about it), Jeff (Max Jenkins), two theater loving actors, and longtime best friends since college.
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The Drag at Provincetown Theatre
Banned on Broadway in 1927 Now a Smash
By: - May 26th, 2022Heading into Memorial Day weekend after our smashing opening of Mae West’s 1927 banned-from-Broadway The Drag, the tickets are selling quickly, and the raves are pouring in…
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Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum
Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel
By: - May 26th, 2022“The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,
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Six Artists in Above Us Only Sky
Atrium Gallery of Boston's Moakley Courthouse
By: - May 27th, 2022Six Boston-based artists in Above Us Only Sky speak about the infinite and euphoria in dark times. Romantic hopeful dream-like paintings elevate while embracing the light and lightness via stellar cascades; avian night-flight and starlike bouquets; a luminous energy field; the legacy of passion; meditation and a flow state; community and seeking new worlds.
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Hat Matter: Thoughts of a Black Mad Hatter
By Michael Wayne Turner III
By: - May 28th, 2022On a line-by-line basis, the text of “Hat Matter:…” is dramatic and compelling. Audiences will find much to cheer and reflect upon. Some tracts may seem stream of consciousness and disjointed, but overall, the language is colorful and riveting, and the thoughts are profound. “
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The Quality of Life by Jane Anderson
Produced by Altarena Playhous
By: - May 31st, 2022Jane Anderson’s “The Quality of Life” depicts this schism within a family, and it feels even more pertinent today than at its premiere in 2007. How “today” are family rifts resulting from moral/religious differences as well as the loss of virtually all material possessions due to a California home being consumed by wildfire?
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MASS MoCA Business Opportunity
Call for Proposals
By: - Jun 01st, 2022MASS MoCA is inviting concepts for the old Sprague Electric Company guardhouse at the main entrance of the MASS MoCA campus located on Marshall Street in North Adams, MA.
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Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls on Broadway
Poet's Language Dances
By: - Jun 02nd, 2022Ntozake Shange began developing poems on the West Coast as a spoken word artist. She speaks to girls who are maturing into women. Black girls, yes. Yet white girls understand her too. What did words mean to Shange? Her sister Ifa Bayeza describes it best. They dance off the page with flourish and drama and beauty.
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Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theater
Beanie Feldstein Disappoints
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Fanny Brice – the real-like comedian who is the title character – had that quality. Unfortunately, while Beanie Feldstein is talented and tries hard – she doesn’t.
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Paradise Square, the Musical
Up for ten Tony Awards
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Paradise Square directed by Moises Kaufman with choreography by Bill T. Jones, is an exuberant, refreshing and intelligent presentation of a significant moment in our history. It has been nominated for ten Tony awards, among them best musical, best choreography by Bill T. Jones and best actress in a musical, Joaqulna Kalukango.
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Beehive: the ‘60s Musical
Produced by Center REPertory
By: - Jun 04th, 2022In an implicit nod to the growing marijuana and hallucinogenic drug culture of the decade, David Crosby famously said that if you can remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there. Fortunately, for most of us who lived through it, that is a canard.
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McConnia Chesser Narrates An Iliad at S&Co.
Was the War Fought in Troy or Pittsfield
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Following an all too familiar trend the playwrights, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, have rewritten the iconic epic poem The Iliad, to the here and now. In the one act play McConnia Chesser compresses a ten year war into 110 minutes. It's a daunting task that exhausts the performer and her audience.
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The Pajama Game
Produced by 42nd Street Moon at the Gateway Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Although “The Pajama Game” may not come across as an expressly political play, it was written when over 300 entertainers were still blacklisted as a result of House Un-American Activities Committee investigations. The central clash is certainly a classic between capital and labor. “Old Man” Hasler, the factory head, is played unsympathetically for his dishonesty and for his rigid rejection of a workers’ raise when the factory is doing extremely well.
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Paintings by Haitian Artist Frantz Zéphirin
Williams Features New Acquisitions
By: - Jun 07th, 2022The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Frantz Zéphirin: Selected Works, an exhibition of ten paintings by the renowned Haitian artist, whose work is also featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale. Tomm El-Saieh, a Haitian-born artist and curator who lives and works in Miami, organized the display for WCMA. El-Saieh’s work is the subject of Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City, a year-long solo exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
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San Antonio’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy
Tried to Deny Afro-Indigneous Senior, Kayla Price Graduation Ceremony
By: - Jun 07th, 2022On Friday June 3rd, the Dean of Schools and Principal at San Antonio’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy tried to deny Afro-Indigneous senior, Kayla Price, from walking in her ceremony because of the eagle feather beaded onto her graduation cap. The Young Women’s Leadership Academy (YWLA), part of the San Antonio Independent School District, ranks in the top 20 high schools in the United States. Per their Non-discrimination Statement,
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Andy Warhol in Iran by Brent Askari
Hit Premiere at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 09th, 2022Overall we loved this new play. The actors were compelling in their roles and the direction of Skip Greer navigated them nicely. There were twists and turns that kept us engaged.Henry Stram was a very good if not great Warhol. He was actually too pretty with none of Andy’s awkward enigma. This was a play after all and not a documentary. To portray an authentic Andy would have added another half hour at least. This production kept it tight and sweet.
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American Symphony Orchestra at Rose Hall
Leon Botstein Conducts Overlooked Masters
By: - Jun 10th, 2022American Symphony Orchestra hosted American Masters, a symphonic concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the world premiere of Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin, performed by acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman. The program also offered works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, and Shulamit Ran. Tickets were free, a gift to New York music lovers,
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Fefu & Her Friends
A Thinking Cap Theatre production
By: - Jun 10th, 2022Thinking Cap Theatre, based in South Florida, has mounted a strong production of the classic play, Fefu & Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes. The mostly plotless play is an absurdist piece featuring eight female characters. Fefu & Her Friends touches on themes such as female relationships, insanity, and gender roles.
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Ringo Won't Starr at Tanglewood
Cancelled Because of Covid
By: - Jun 11th, 2022The Ringo Starr All Stars were cancelled from Tanglewood's Popular Artists last season. It was rescheduled for this coming week, Friday, June 17. The BSO announces that it yet again will be rescheduled.
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Don Giovanni
Produced by San Francisco Opera
By: - Jun 13th, 2022The dark comedy “Don Giovanni” holds a place as one of the greatest operas ever composed. In the hands of a world class company like San Francisco Opera with a great orchestra and the ability to attract some of the best artists to grace the stage, the production is as musically rich as it is professionally performed.
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Harvey Milk, the Opera, in St. Louis
Composer Stewart Wallace Creates a Smashing Success
By: - Jun 13th, 2022Harvey Milk, the re-tooled opera, premieres at Opera Theatre of St. Lotus. It is a smashing hit. Composer Stewart Wallace talks about again looking at the work, first draft created in 1994-5. He now lives in Rome and is in St. Louis for event. He presents the title character and his friends as human. Michael Korie is librettist and contributes a journalist's eye for detail in moving scenes.
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Deathtrap a Thriller
At The Legacy Theatre
By: - Jun 16th, 2022Ira Levin (author of novels Rosemary’s Baby and A Kiss Before Dying) wrote this play that he billed as a comedy/thriller in 1978. It had a long Broadway run and was made into the 1982 film starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeves and Dyan Cannon.
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On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America
Revisionist Installation at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Jun 17th, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum has long collected Native American material and is now doing so intensively. In that regard it is an outlier. Contemporary Native American artists have been egregiously neglected by the mainstream American art world — we lag far behind Canada. The PEM has just reinstalled its American collection, which runs from the Colonial era to the present, and it is an ambitious, intriguing, but problematic exhibition.
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Jacob’s Pillow’s 90th Season
Chill in Renovated Ted Shawn Theatre
By: - Jun 18th, 2022Attending a performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre, a renovated barn, at renowned Jacob's Pillow could be a sweltering experience. Having been closed in 2019 it reopens for the 90th season of 2022 with a $9 million upgrade. That features a new cooling and air ventilation system, orchestra pit, expanded accessibility for artists and audience members, an increased stage depth by 10 feet and enhanced technology.
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