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Metropolitan Opera Website Down
Never Underestimate Putin and Netrebko
By: - Dec 09th, 2022The Metropolitan Opera website is down for the third day in a row. Griner freed. Met Opera now captive?
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Hand Shadow Puppetry by Steven Wendt
HERE Presents Phil Soltanoff, Director
By: - Dec 12th, 2022This and That delights. The production also raises questions: Can a serious effort be delivered with casual aplomb? Great beauty? Mystery? From a messy theater? In the hands of Philip Soltanoff and Steven Wendt, the answer is a resounding Yes.
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The Brightest Thing in the World at Yale Rep
A Work in Progress
By: - Dec 13th, 2022Leah Nanko Winkler writes in a cinematic style – the play opens with a series of brief scenes (fewer than five lines), which sets up the meeting and subsequent developing relationship between Steph and Lane at the Revival Coffeeshop. It is the usual Rom-Com mixture of unsaid things, clues that aren’t picked up, and fears.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Premiering at Goodspeed
By: - Dec 20th, 2022As a world premiere, this is a work in progress. Changes are being made. When I saw it, one song had been moved, and a reprise was eliminated.
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Red Speedo
A Ronnie Larsen Presents Production in South Florida
By: - Dec 20th, 2022Lucas Hnath's intense drama, "Red Speedo" is playing in an admirable production by South Florida-based producer Ronnie Larsen. The production runs through Dec. 30 at the intimate Foundry space in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. "Red Speedo" represents a significant departure from the kind of work that Larsen usually produces and creates.
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Guggenheim Museum 2023
Schedule of Exhibitions
By: - Dec 21st, 2022The Guggenheim Museum releases its schedule of exhibitions for 2023.
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Daoist Traditional Practices and Stillness
By: - Dec 27th, 2022Zen Buddhist teaching and the use of Koans are for the purpose of disabusing one from thinking, and instead simply acting. Quiet oneself sufficiently, be fully present in the moment, and the correct response to the moment will arise on its own – naturally, instinctively, organically.
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Dear Suzanne By Eve Rifkah
19th Century French Artist and Model
By: - Dec 28th, 2022Her father, an artist, took the poet Eve Rifkah to the Museum of Fine Arts. There the young girl became intrigued by Suzanna Valadon the model for Renoir's stunning Bal a Bougival. She has written a book of verse comprising conversations with and about herself and the legendary artist/ model. Our paths crossed at Manship Artists Residency.
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Peter Gelb Announces Cut Backs at Met Opera
General Manager Only One Surprised by Ticket Sales
By: - Dec 28th, 2022It comes as a surprise to noone who attends Met Operas that the House is in trouble. Only Peter Gelb, who at first said that people were asleep after Covid, seems to find the Met Opera's failure to sell tickets news. His response is also odd. The operas he proposes to produce to cure are chamber operas unsuited to an opera house too large for our times.
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Clark Art Institute Free Concerts
I/O Fest with Williams College Department of Music
By: - Jan 04th, 2023The Clark Art Institute hosts three free events as part of I/O Fest, the Williams College Department of Music’s annual immersion in the music of today. Students in the music program take audiences on a tour of new sounds and adventurous music during a concert for families on January 15.
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Marjorie Minkin to Exhibit Opacity/Translucency
Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse
By: - Jan 04th, 2023The artist Marjorie Minkin divides time between Boston and the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Her Lexans have been shown in galleries and museums in MA, NYC, LA, Michigan, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany and Seoul. This is the first time a solo installation will be shown in Boston. The work will be exhibited in the Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston from January 5th through March 30th, 2023.
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Aladdin
Equity National Tour In Miami
By: - Jan 06th, 2023A vibrant equity national touring production of "Aladdin" is playing in Miami through Sunday. "Aladdin" offers a feast for the eyes. The popular musical's basis is a 1992 animated film, which an ancient folktale inspired.
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Winter Theatre at Barrington Stage Company
12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
By: - Jan 06th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces the 10-minute plays, playwrights and casting for the 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival, part of the 2023 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival. Performances February 17 through March 5, 2023.
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Cape Ann Rocks!
Quarries, Poles Hill, Ocean Ledges
By: - Jan 06th, 2023Quarries, Poles Hill, Ocean Ledges and gratitude weave through the following essay, with 30 plus photographs.
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VERY Mounts Death Show
Artist Run Boston Gallery
By: - Jan 09th, 2023VERY is pleased to begin the winter season with Death Show, a special compilation exploring how death reveals itself as both an unspoken subtext and conscious motif in the work of ten artists. Employing diverse mediums, these artists express the material and existential implications of the force that affects all.
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Oyayaye and Fortunio's Lied, Komische Oper
Of Course in Berlin
By: - Jan 10th, 2023The Komische Oper Berlin is one of three opera houses in the Capital. Committed to presenting lighter fare, it just celebrated its 75 birthday in January with a big gala and two operas by Jaques Offenbach: Oyayaye and Fortunio's Lied.
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Philip Guston at the MFA
Beyond the Controversy
By: - Jan 11th, 2023It has taken months for Martin Mugar to get a fix on the remarkable Philip Guston exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The work is now on the road. Mugar attempts to unpack the complex phases of the work from initial Social Realism to Abstract Expressionism to a late phase entailing controversial cartoonish images of the Ku Klux Klan. Initially the late work cast him as a pariah in the art world. During which he taught at Boston University and was embraced by like minded professors and students.
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Annie
Touring show at Broadway San Jose
By: - Jan 12th, 2023So, what makes “Annie” so popular? Where to start? Set during the Great Depression and opening in an orphanage with conditions straight out of a Charles Dickens novel doesn’t seem a likely starting point.
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Remembering Jeff Beck
Relentless Innovator of the Electric Guitar
By: - Jan 13th, 2023While manager of the Boston Tea Party Steve Nelson booked, first the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, then later the Jeff Beck band for four nights. Beck was touring with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Mick Waller. (Editor: I saw that lineup at the Newport Jazz Festival.) On the cusp of superstardom Beck broke up the band. Rod went solo and Ron eventually joined the Rolling Stones.
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Time Alone
Boca Stage in Southeast Florida
By: - Jan 14th, 2023"Time Alone" is a moving and intense play about two prisoners. Boca Stage is presenting a riveting production of Alessandro Camon's play. The production runs through Jan. 22.
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Rose Art Museum Honors Arghavan Khosravi
Iranian Artist Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence
By: - Jan 17th, 2023The Rose Art Museum names Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984) the 2023 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence. Since 2002, the Perlmutter Residency has been part of the Rose Art Museum’s longstanding tradition of promoting emerging artists of extraordinary talent whose work addresses contemporary issues of vital urgency.
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MASS MOCA's Denise Markonish
Appointed Chief Curator
By: - Jan 17th, 2023MASS MoCA has promoted veteran curator Denise Markonish to become its new Chief Curator, the first in MASS MoCA’s nearly 25-year history. Markonish joined MASS MoCA in 2007.
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Julianne Boyd to Direct Faith Healer
Bannrington Strage Company August 2023
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Julianne Boyd says, “I am thrilled to be directing Faith Healer, Brian Friel’s hauntingly beautiful play that has been on my short list for years – and I am excited to be reunited with three tremendously talented actors and BSC Associate Artists, Christopher Innvar, Mark Dold and Gretchen Egolf.”
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Victoria Bond Conducts at the United Nations
Composer in Stockton, California Performing Ray Charles
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Victoria Bond will conduct at the UN on January 27. The event can be live streamed. She will then travel to Stockton, California for a tribute to Ray Charles .
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The Full Monty at Broadway in Lauderhill
Do the Men Take It All Off
By: - Jan 17th, 2023A fine cast delivers with lesser material in Broadway in Lauderhill's opening season production of "The Full Monty." The Full Monty is charming and amusing in places, but a musical mess in others. The production runs through Jan. 29 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center.
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