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Mousetrap at Hartford Stage
Where's the Beef
By: - Nov 06th, 2022When the murderer reveals himself and points the gun at his next victim, I expect to feel some fear. Unfortunately, in the stylish but misguided Hartford Stage production of The Mousetrap (running through Sunday, Nov. 6), not only didn’t I feel fear, I had no sense that the intended victim felt fear.
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Chekhov's First Play at the Irish Arts Center
Chehkov's Methods Revealed in a Romp
By: - Nov 06th, 2022Dead Center: Chekhov’s First Play has had a jam-packed audience in its run at the Irish Arts Center in New York. To be sure the city is crammed with actors who play Chekov roles. This play is a tip to fathoming their secrets. It is also pure fun for any theater goer.
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Berkshires Jazz Sprawl
Downtown Pittsfield and Lenox
By: - Nov 06th, 2022The downtowns of Pittsfield and Lenox, Massachusetts will be sprawling with live music on the weekend of Nov. 18-20, with the first Berkshires Jazz Fall Sprawl. Artists range from small, local groups to the 17-piece Amherst Jazz Orchestra, and spotlight 16-year-old prodigy Brandon Goldberg, who is making his Berkshires debut that weekend.
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Yet Another Guys and Dolls
ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - Nov 07th, 2022Within three months Connecticut theatergoers have seen two excellent productions. In the summer it was produced at Sharon Playhouse. Now ACT-CT in Ridgefield has opened its season with another fine production which runs through Sunday, Nov. 20. Each is well cast, well sung and well directed.
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2022 Boston Artadia Award
Winners Announced
By: - Nov 08th, 2022The recipients of the 2022 Boston Artadia Awards are Stephen Hamilton, the Liberty Specialty Markets Artadia Award recipient, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Shantel Miller. The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards were also supported by the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, the Meraki Artist Award, the Artadia Board of Directors, Artadia Council Members, anonymous funders, and individual donors across the country.
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Shelia Jordan Concert and Master Class
The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge
By: - Nov 09th, 2022One of the most distinctive and creative of all jazz singers, NEA Jazz Master and self-described “Jazz Child” Sheila Jordan is one of those rare vocalists whose voice can be regarded among the great instruments of the music.
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Lend Me a Tenor
MTC in Norwalk
By: - Nov 10th, 2022Kevin Connors has managed to keep the pace fast and the timing almost perfect. That’s a key to effective farce. Too slow and you lose interest. You can’t have time to really think about what is happening.
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George Fifield at 72
Founded Cyber Arts Festival
By: - Nov 13th, 2022George Fifield, founder of the Cyberarts Festival and Boston Cyberarts, curator, scholar, arts administrator, creative mentor, videographer, educator, and a major champion of fusing art with technology, passed away on November 11 at the age of 72 from complications that followed a devastating fall that occurred at his Martha’s Vineyard home early last summer
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Kingston Gallery Accepting Applicants
Submission Details
By: - Nov 13th, 2022Kingston Gallery is accepting APPLICATIONS by contempory artists for Associate Member Artist status at Kingston Gallery in Boston’s SoWA arts district. Terms begin in January 2023.
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Young Concert Artists Announces Winners
Annual Competition Winners Live Streaming
By: - Nov 14th, 2022Four First Prize Winners have been announced following the Finals of the 2022 Young Concert Artists International Auditions:
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John Corigliano Premiere at Jordan Hall
Anthony Roth Costanzo Stars
By: - Nov 15th, 2022The Lord of Cries is a mélange of two classic literary works written two millennia apart: the Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides, and the Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Set in Victorian London at the fearsome time of Jack the Ripper, the opera begins with its title character – Dionysus, the god of fury – returning to earth. Anthony Roth Costanzo featured.
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Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue
Harvard's Carpenter Center
By: - Nov 17th, 2022The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents Please Stay Home, an exhibition featuring the work of Darrel Ellis, Leslie Hewitt, and Wardell Milan. An additional contextual installation will include photographs by the artist’s father, Thomas Ellis, and close friend, artist Allen Frame. Centered on a less recognized body of Ellis’s work and featuring new commissions by Hewitt and Milan,
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Berkshire Jazz With Eddie Allen
Home for the Holidays
By: - Nov 17th, 2022Eddie Allen has worked with such jazz greats as Art Blakey, Billy Harper, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Carter. He has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for: Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Jack McDuff, Etta Jones & Houston Person, and Mongo Santamaria.
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
At Shakespere & Company
By: - Nov 17th, 2022We're returning to the world of Jane Austen-inspired theater with a costumed, staged reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, and directed by Ariel Bock!
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Readings at Gloucester Writers Center
Joe Rukeyser and Kathleen Williams
By: - Nov 18th, 2022It was fun to revisit our old haunt the Gloucester Writers Center. Much has changed since we were residents several years ago. Last night we attended a reading by Joe Rukeyser and Kathleen Williams.
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Kevin Puts' New Opera Opens
Starry Trio of Renee Fleming, Joyce Di Donato and Kelli O'Hara
By: - Nov 23rd, 2022OUT magazine suggested an opera based on the film The Hours back in 2014. At the time, Fabian Brathwaite wrote: (wishful thinking) Based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the 2002 Stephen Daldry film is basically two hours of “EMOTION!” Tears, breakdowns, more tears and a prosthetic nose — ingredients for operatic gold. And look no further for casting. Just give Meryl three weeks and a pack of lozenges. Renee Fleming now takes on Meryl Streep's role.
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George Fifield at 72
Founded Cyber Arts Festival
By: - Nov 23rd, 2022George Fifield, founder of the Cyberarts Festival and Boston Cyberarts, curator, scholar, arts administrator, creative mentor, videographer, educator, and a major champion of fusing art with technology, passed away on November 11 at the age of 72 from complications that followed a devastating fall that occurred at his Martha’s Vineyard home early last summer
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project's John Corigliano Opera
Mark Adamo, Librettist. Brilliant work at Jordan Hall
By: - Nov 26th, 2022Leave it to Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera to present one of the most important operas of the last decade. At Jordan Hall in Boston, Rose and his company gave a superb concert production of John Corigliano’s “Lord of the Cries.” Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera, this was its east coast debut. Corigliano’s first opera, The Ghost of Versailles met with consistently rave reviews and was not performed often after its premiere. Corigliono swore off the form. He wanted to write music that was heard.
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Dorothy's Dictionary
A World Premiere by Theatre Lab in Florida
By: - Nov 28th, 2022Dorothy's Dictionary is a funny, touching piece of theater about two contrasting people developing a bond over time. The play's word premiere production is running through Dec. 11 at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University. Theatre Lab is dedicated to producing new work.
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Wrightwood 659, the Lincoln Park Gallery
Two Exhibitios on Display
By: - Nov 29th, 2022Two compelling exhibits are on display at Wrightwood 659, the Lincoln Park gallery dedicated to exhibiting socially engaged art and architecture. Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage celebrates the work of the Chicago painter and her fascination with science and culture. The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity: 1869-1930 offers the first multimedia survey of early works of queer art.
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Phil Kline's Unsilent Night at MASS MOCA
Cult Christmas Classic
By: - Nov 30th, 2022Phil Kline's Unsilent Night has been presented in 150+ cities across five continents since its debut 30 years ago on the streets of Greenwich Village. Free as always.
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Wuthering Heights
An irreverent Contemporary Musical Adaptation
By: - Dec 02nd, 2022This rendering must be measured by a very different yardstick than traditional versions. By a calculation based on contemporary sensibilities, Adaptor/Director Emma Rice’s innovation succeeds in providing a multifaceted entertainment executed with top rate professionalism.
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Geoffrey Richon Contractor and Philanthropist
Co-Founded Gloucester Stage Company
By: - Dec 05th, 2022Geoffrey Richon is a major contractor and philanthropist in Gloucester. He co-founded Gloucester Stage Company. For artistic director he hired and later fired the playwright Israel Horovitz. He was outed as a sexual predator, first by the Boston Phoenix in 1993, and then by the New York Times in 2007. The company has been through rough times but Richon sees a bright and expanded future.
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Little Shop of Horrors
TheatreWorks' Bubbly Chinatown Adaptation
By: - Dec 06th, 2022Okay – let’s cut straight to the chase. The unique chronical of “Little Shop of Horrors” is laugh-out-loud funny; the music is foot-stomping energetic; the production is superb; and the performances are great. Did I miss anything? If you see this TheatreWorks production and disagree, check with your physician to make sure you have the pulse rate of a sentient being.
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Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas
Secret Life of Plants
By: - Dec 07th, 2022Confocal microscopy, also known as confocal laser scanning microscopy, is a specialized optical imaging technique that provides contact-free, non-destructive measurements of three-dimensional objects. For this website, plants considered sacred by indigenous groups of the Americas were scanned at St. Lawrence University’s Microscopy and Imaging Center.
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