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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen
Written by Terry Guest, Produced by Theatre Rhinoceros
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Appropriately, Theatre Rhinoceros presents “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” in its new, intimate home in The Castro. Their choice of play to christen the new venue fits like a glove. Thematically, the suitability is clear for the longest running LGBTQ theater company in the universe. And in a setting where the audience can reach out and touch the performers, a small two hander where the actors’ every small gesture can be seen.
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Shakeup at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Mandy Greenfield Out and Jenny Gersten Back In
By: - Nov 01st, 2021After seven seasons of woke programming Mandy Greenfield has resigned as artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival. There was a tech crew walkout last summer over brutal conditions during hazardous and stressful outdoor productions. During a production of Row in a reflecting pool at Clark Art Institute there were days of delays due to rain and thunder storms . Problems were widely reported in the media. Former artistic director, Jenny Gersten, has rejoined WTF as interim artistic director.
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Thomas Wilkins Conducts the BSO
Coleridge-Taylor, Victor Wooten and Duke Ellington At Symphony Hall
By: - Oct 31st, 2021Across the country arts organizations are making a concerted effort to include Americans of color in their presentations. The concert at Symphony Hall in Boston this week was a highly successful concert of inclusion.
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Ric Haynes at HallSpace
Soul Boat Paintings
By: - Oct 31st, 2021Ric Haynes is an artist, arts therapist, humanist, and a storyteller. His life has brought him on journeys, both voluntary, and involuntary. Those experiences along with a vivid memory have given Haynes all of the source material he needs to tell his stories.
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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh
At Long Wharf Theater
By: - Oct 30th, 2021The play by Lloyd Suh is based on Afong May, who came to the US in 1834 to “perform” for curious Americans telling them about Chinese life. May was purported to be the first Chinese Woman to set foot on American soil.
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Save Broadway from the Grinch
Upcoming Escape Room Challenges People
By: - Oct 30th, 2021Stuart Brown, a theater critic and founder of a 24/7 online radio station devoted to musical theater, has created an escape room through which you strive to save Broadway from the Grinch. The escape room will go live around the first week of December. To access the escape room, go to https://soundsofbroadway.com/escaperoom. The "save Broadway" escape room will join two existing ones on the website.
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Berkshire Jazz, Dawning and Jeff Holmes
Saint James Place, Great Barrington, Saturday, Nov. 27
By: - Oct 28th, 2021Known for her impassioned ballads and exciting up-tunes, vocalist Dawning Holmes was first heard in the Berkshires during the 2017 tribute to Buddy Rich. She returned the following year to perform with her husband Jeff Holmes' big band at the Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend in Lee.
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Barrinton Stage Company Program for Veterans
Playwriting Workshop With Mark St, Germain
By: - Oct 28th, 2021Barrington Stage Company will offer a Playwriting Workshop for Veterans under the direction of Barrington Stage Associate Artist and Award-Winning Playwright Mark St. Germain. In this 4-class seminar, students will explore the fundamental craft of playwriting with the goal of every student completing a ten-minute play. The culmination on the fourth and final day of class will be a rehearsal and performance by professional actors.
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Magic and Stillness
Autumn in the Berkshires
By: - Oct 27th, 2021My life is mostly solitary. This is by choice. When I returned from my first year in China to visit my daughters, I found living in society once again to be noisy. The temple where I lived is isolated in the Wudang mountains 30 kilometers from the nearest city, Shiyan. The temple complex sits atop the mountain, and life is very quiet, simple, and hard.
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Mezze Fall Menu
Ramen to Go
By: - Oct 26th, 2021As the leaves began falling to the ground, Chef was inspired to create ramen: only available for takeout! Why do ramen? It's sustainable, comforting, and delicious.
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Black Power in Print: Dana Chandler in Boston
MFA Celebrates 55th anniversary of Black Panther Party's Founding
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Black Panther Party's founding, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has launched "Black Power in Print," an online project in tandem with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Comprising recently digitized materials and new interviews between artists and scholars, the archive highlights the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today.
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Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision
Staged in Historic Pittsfield Women's Club Mansion
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The virtual screening of Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision- a walk-through installation performance celebrating the lives of Women of Color will premier on November 5th at 8pm. Set inside a historic Women’s Club mansion in Pittsfield MA, each of the 21 rooms represented a stage or theme of initiation in the lives of Black, Indigenous and Immigrant Women of Color.
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Remembering Together Collaborative Exhibition
Marking Lives COVID-19 at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
By: - Oct 25th, 2021Marking Lives COVID-19 is a community art project conceived by Concord-based artist Elizabeth Awalt to commemorate the American lives lost to COVID. This exhibition is a realization of the collaborative social media project. It includes North Adams artist Sarah Sutro.
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Cuban Pianist and Composer Harold López-Nussa
New England and NY Tour Dates
By: - Oct 25th, 2021On his vibrant and spirited third recording for Mack Avenue Records, Havana-based pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa sets out to capture that stirring sensation with an exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music. On a global tour there are dates for Florence (near Northampton), Boston and NY.
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M. Butterfly, the Opera, to Premiere in Santa Fe
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Join Forces
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The world premiere of M. Butterfly, the opera, will take place on July 30,2021 at the Santa Fe Opera. We got a taste of its music, its story and the sound of the delicious man/girl Song. Kangmin Justin Kim is a countertenor with special tremulos and vibratos which suggest the feminine voice. Many layers weave through the new telling to the tale made famous in its first iteration as a Tony and Pulitzer-finalist play by David Henry Hwang. He is the librettist for the new work by composer, Huang Ruo.
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Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom
Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Kingdom is an entirely LGBTQ African American story, sensitively told, and illustrates through the characters’ varied life experiences how Black gay culture is different from White gay culture. The lyrical script keeps the symbolism of the Magic Kingdom as a meaningful background theme, until the very end.
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It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021You might consider a review of the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein to be “old hat;” why bother seeing a show with songs that are so familiar to all of us. See it because Ruggiero and the cast take these songs and bring a newness to them with sometimes subtle twists that carry them in the 21st century.
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The Great Khan by Michael Gene Sullivan
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan fills the house with laughter in addition to thoughtfulness and social reflection. In his affecting premiere “The Great Khan,” an otherwise unassuming, middle-class, black teenage boy, Jayden, has saved a black teenage girl, Ant (full name - Antoinette), from a gang of boys.
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Lewis Hine and North Adams Eclipse Mill
Children Once Labored in Artists/ Loft Complex
By: - Oct 22nd, 2021During the era of KIng Cotton North Adams thrived by processing bales shipped north from plantations. The Eclipse Mill produced thread which was woven across the street in the Delftree Mill. Until 1938 the mills employed child labor. During a single visit Lewis Hine created nine photographs outside the mill. These images as well as vintage views of the Eclipse Mill comprise a special exhibition. They flank the entrance ramp to the vast artist/ loft complex. The community based project is an aesthetic, historic and humanistic accomplishment.
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Faure's Consoling Requiem at Greenwood Cemetery
Angel's Share Concludes Its Season
By: - Oct 22nd, 2021Andrew Ousley has just the right touch as he presens music from all time and places in surprising venues across the city of New York. Earlier concerts at the Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn took place in catacombs. For the performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem by Cantori, Ousley moved outside. The audience sits among the dead, consoled by a requiem at peace.
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Todd Haynes Documentary Evokes The Velvet Underground
Is There More to the Story of Lou Reed and His Band
By: - Oct 21st, 2021Steve Nelson was the foremost producer/promoter of concerts by The Velvet Underground in the period 1967-1970. He managed the legendary rock club The Boston Tea Party and produced shows in western Mass. at his club The Woodrose Ballroom and at the Paramount Theater in Springfield. He also designed several of the posters promoting those shows. He was an Archival Consultant to the Haynes film and provided visual materials for it.
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Jazz at the Gateways Inn
Music in Lenox Starts October 21
By: - Oct 20th, 2021A special concert will cap this weekend on Sunday, Oct. 24, when pianist Ted Rosenthal performs his unique interpretations of George Gershwin compositions. Highlighted by his innovative treatment of the legendary Rhapsody in Blue, Ted’s repertoire for this first “tea time jazz special,” is collectively known as Rhapsody in Gershwin.
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Mamma Mia!
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton
By: - Oct 20th, 2021A vibrant Mamma Mia! is running at The wick Theatre in Boca Raton through Nov. 14. The production features triple threat performers who are convincing in their roles. Mamma Mia is the first production the Wick Theatre has mounted since the company closed its doors due to the pandemic.
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Die Dreigroschenoper at the Berliner Ensemble
By Bertold Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill
By: - Oct 19th, 2021It turned into a shocking success, the opening of the Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera) in November 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Now, almost 100 years later, Bertolt Brecht's work with the music by Kurt Weill, is back at its original showing, now called the Berliner Ensemble at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
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Shakespeare & Company Benefit Screenings
Speak What We Feel, a Documentary by Patrick J. Toole
By: - Oct 19th, 2021Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) and the first feature-length film project in the Company’s 44-year history, Speak What We Feel follows hundreds of students from 10 high schools across Berkshire, Hampden, and Columbia counties as they prepare to stage a full production of a Shakespeare play under the guidance of Shakespeare & Company education artists.
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