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  • Steel Magnolias Blooms in Denver

    Robert Harling's Classic Perfetly Produced

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 02nd, 2021

    Steel Magnolias is staged by the Cherry Creek Theater in Denver, Colorado. This comic tragedy comes alive in a beauty parlor, whose window frames look out on the talk of the town parading by. In the South, men sit under a pecan tree and talk about affairs as if they all had PhDs from Harvard.  The women hunker down to have their hair and nails done.

  • A Crossing: A Dance Musical

    Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 02nd, 2021

    While focused on a group of migrants this is the story of all of us. It conveys an America rooted in exclusion, violence and intolerance. This is a stunning new musical for all Americans.

  • Trump Promised to Drain the Swamp

    DC Still Mucked Up

    By: Jack Lyons - Oct 02nd, 2021

    It’s been almost a year since November 2020 when Mr. Trump lost his presidential reelection bid but secretly refuses to accept his defeat.  And “the big lie’ theory continues to poison the political well being of the nation.

  • Gateways Inn in Downtown Lenox

    Announces Jazz Series

    By: Gateways - Oct 01st, 2021

    The Gateways Inn in downtown Lenox has announced a new jazz series, starting in October and running Thursdays through Saturdays, with a special concert on Sunday, Oct. 24. Presented in association with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the series underscores the venue’s ongoing dedication to live music.

  • Haunted Hancock Shaker Village

    Spooky Tours

    By: Hancock - Oct 01st, 2021

    Peer into hidden spaces, with guides sharing tales of ghosts that dwell here and the Shakers' participation in the Spiritualist Movement.

  • Otto Zitko New Works

    At Crone Wien in Vienna

    By: Crone Wien - Oct 01st, 2021

    In Otto Zitko’s work, space determines form and content. The central design element is the seemingly endless line running across large-format picture panels, sheets, or walls, which is applied with paint rollers or thick oil pens. Behind the supposedly purely expressive character of his works lies a complex structure of self-organization, the sounding out of physiological movement in space, and different levels of consciousness and energy.

  • Clark Art Institute’s First Sundays

    Free Admission on October 3

    By: Clark - Oct 01st, 2021

    The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program returns on Sunday, October 3. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.

  • Yehuda Hanani and Close Encounters Return

    Classic, Jazz, Whimy and Bee Bop in One Splendid Evening

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 30th, 2021

    An invitation to a close encounter with very special music.  Paul Schoenfield’s runaway classical hit, Café Music for piano trio, sets the tone for a celebratory re-opening. Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible.

  • Cleo Parker Robinson, Going the Distance

    Celebrating 50 Years of Black dance

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 29th, 2021

    Cleo Parker Robinson is celebrating the 51st anniversary of the founding of her dance troupe. Covid buried the 50th. This celebration had added sizzle.  Live dance is happening at last.

  • Sculpture by Jared Abner and Steven Muller. 

    At Boston's HallSpace

    By: HallSpace - Sep 28th, 2021

    In "Wood Play" both artists are having fun with the materials and the forms. The work in this exhibition evokes that joy. Steve Muller's assembled sculptures play with sticks/lines, broken, abrupt, and jagged. They are simple intelligent collages, with a touch of wry humor. Jared Abner discovers forms by following the shapes and grain of the wood he is carving.

  • Shout! The Mod Musical

    At South Bay Musical Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 28th, 2021

    “Shout! The Mod Musical” is a musical revue of the ‘60s shown through the experiences of five young adult women living in London, as conceived and curated by three American men (of course)!  The songbook draws from tunes of the era, predominantly those popularized by English songbirds, especially Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark (“Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Downtown” for starters.)  

  • Tattoos in Japanese Prints

    Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition November 20 to February 20

    By: MFA - Sep 28th, 2021

    Today tattoos are ubiquitous in our culture. The Museum of Fine Arts offers a timely echibition Tattoos in Japanese Prints from November 20 to February 20. The exhibition features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) and his contemporaries—including his colleague and rival Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864) and his pupil Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892).

  • Melvin Van Peebles, Going the Distance

    An Appreciation

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 27th, 2021

    Melvin Van Peebles, the black entrepreneur, died on September 21. Over the years, brief encounters revealed many of his sparkling facets.

  • Carolyn Newberger at Galatea Fine Arts

    Drawing From Life:  The Nude as Mirror and Muse

    By: Galatea - Sep 26th, 2021

    Carolyn Newberger is a Berkshire based polymath. From October 1 through 31 she will exhibit Drawing From Life:  The Nude as Mirror and Muse at Boston's Galatea Fine Arts. "Typically working in broad strokes on paper with watercolor and charcoal or ink, in twenty minutes or less I seek to bring onto the page the ineffable personhood of the model, his or her thoughtfulness, mental state, humor and distinctiveness," she says of this new work.

  • Kristy Edmunds Joins MASS MoCA

    Second Director of North Adams Museum

    By: MoCA - Sep 23rd, 2021

    The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.

  • Young Composers at the Ojai Festival

    Free to Be an Individual in Sound

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 23rd, 2021

    John Adams writes about his release from the shackles binding  him as a Northeastern composer in the US.  Coming to California as a young man, he was at last able to write the music he heard, whatever shape it took.  He was free to be an individual. Each of the young composers featured prominently in Ojai 2021 has clearly benefited from Adams’ experience.

  • Billy Crystal at Barrington Stage Company

    Mr. Saturday Night a Work in Development

    By: Barrington - Sep 22nd, 2021

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC),welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal in a presentation of a new musical in development, Mr. Saturday Night, on the Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street) for nine performances. A new musical comedy, Mr. Saturday Night is about one man’s meteoric rise to the middle. The musical is a work in development and will be presented with minimal set and costume pieces.  

  • Jacob’s Pillow Announces Fall Artist Residencies

    Fourth Year of Pillow Lab

    By: Pillow - Sep 22nd, 2021

    Jacob’s Pillow announces this season’s artist residencies offered at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work. The Fall 2021 recipients include jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, Indigenous Enterprise, Taylor Stanley and Shamel Pitts, and Yve Laris Cohen.

  • The Ojai Music Festival Is Now

    John Adams Mixes a Potent Broth

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 22nd, 2021

    The annual Ojai Music Festival is arguably the most exciting music event in this country.  It “monitors the everchanging mood and directions of our musical atmosphere.” A challenge to be sure. A challenge which is richly met and then some.

  • Was It Me by Andrea Fulton

    Theatre for the New City is Live Again

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Sep 22nd, 2021

    Theater for the New City, Executive Director Crystal Field presents Andrea Fulton's Was it Me? Directed by Kymbali Craig, the play gives us a poignant peak into everyday life. Fulton probes the anguish of a woman burdened by an unresolved memory of a traumatizing assault in her childhood. Fulton brings the question of self blame to the fore as the woman asks:  “Was it something about me that made this happen?"

  • Noorrrraaaaaaa  after Ibsen

    The Gorki Theater, Berlin

    By: Angelika Jansen - Sep 21st, 2021

    Just be aware. The premiere of Nora at Berlin's smallest theatre, The Gorki Theater, offers anything but the expected story line of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play about a woman stepping out of a comfortable upper middle class family life to become independent.

  • Abandoned Chicagoland: Rust on the Prairies

    By Jerry Olejniczak and Arcadia Publishing

    By: Nancy Bishop - Sep 20th, 2021

    This new book by Jerry Olejniczak is filled with images of sites demolished, transformed by decay, and sometimes overtaken by nature. Olejniczak (pronounced Oh-lay-KNEE-chalk) is an urbex photographer—a photographer as urban explorer.

  • The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown

    Branford’s new Legacy Theatre

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 20th, 2021

    The Last Five Years is a very popular musical with theaters; in part because it only needs two performers and minimal sets/costumes and partly because it tells a universal story of falling both in and out of love.

  • Working by Studs Terkel

    Produced by Palo Alto Players

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 20th, 2021

    Terkel’s hometown beat was a great laboring town, Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders.  From a lifetime of communing in his community and across the country, he produced powerful oral histories based on interviews, particularly “Working” (1974) and the Pulitzer Prize winning “The Good War” (1985).

  • Boston Sculptors ALight on MARS!

    Gloucester's Manship Artists Residency + Studios

    By: Ellen Schon - Sep 19th, 2021

    Inspired by the light and wonder of fireflies, 16 Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have been invited to exhibit their site-specific sculptural works on the grounds of the Manship Artists Residency + Studios (MARS) in Gloucester, MA. Paul Manship, celebrated sculptor of the Prometheus Fountain in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, established his summer residence and studio amid Cape Ann’s granite quarries.

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