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Armature is a searing and disturbing new play receiving a commendable world premiere production at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. The production runs through Feb. 27.

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.

The Biblically- inspired adage suggests that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and the same could be said of idle minds.  With time to spare, mischief finds Miranda Rose Hall’s central character in this compact, 70 minute, two-hander. 

Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LTC,  each tugging for their own interests.

Anna Deavere Smith was a pioneer in what is often referred to as verbatim drama; the use of transcripts from interviews to create a work that explores an incident of social importance. She has used this form frequently, most recently with Notes from the Field about the school-to-prison pipeline.

At the end of his life did the wrong politics give Auden the possibility of cancelling Yeats’s greatness as a poet. It suggests that behind the concern for art being politically correct is the illness that Nietzsche said awaited our culture as a whole: the waste land grows: Resentment or “Ressentiment” as he used it is the deeply sour well out from which we channel art into predetermined realms of activity. Perl's new book is its diagnosis.

“Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is well produced; highly provocative; dense with scholarly detail; and even has a few unexpected turnings of its own.  But be prepared for something that may be outside your normal comfort zone.  

The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance (CTD) is presenting an exciting mix of theatre and dance, virtual and in-person. CTD presents student and world-class artists celebrating diverse and challenging theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond. As a community service, all our virtual programming is free and open to all.

Folk and Baroque—Performed Live at Historic Saint James Place in Downtown Great Barrington, MA, February 26, 2021 at 6 PM  

The actress, Anna has returned to the US from Amsterdam where she has lived for 25 years. She left the US after the “Naked Wilson” theater piece she devised and performed became the subject of controversy. Now, she has returned to Atlanta to, she thinks, perform the piece for the last time at a new arts festival.

The Boston art community is saddened to learn of the passing of Todd McKee. He was an artist known for wit and whimsy in his work, primarily watercolor on paper.  

Drawing inspiration from the significance of the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, Theaster Gates’s Pavilion will pay homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions. While the structure of the Pavilion will predominantly be made of wood, the Pavilion’s design alludes to the performative and meditative qualities of a small chapel

Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.

The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards will annually provide $10,000 in unrestricted funds to three visual artists living and working in the vibrant arts communities of Boston. The Artadia awards are designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen arts communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.

The performance precedes the memorial service and burial of Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irvin, the granddaughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, at the family gravesite at the Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington. Other Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irving Memorial events will be hosted by BRIDGE as part of the Town of Great Barrington's fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Festival, marking a special reparations moment in racial justice organizing.

After a critically acclaimed run, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces that streaming of the World Premiere production of Mr. Parent by Melinda Lopez with Maurice Emmanuel Parent* and co-conceived and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian° will begin on February 7 and be available through February 20.

Opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), this spring, Turner’s Modern World brings together more than 100 works by one of Britain’s greatest artists—including paintings, watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks—drawn from museums across the U.S. and Great Britain.

Festival 2022, which will feature 10 weeks of on-site programming, opens June 22, and runs through August 28, attracting dance audiences from across the globe to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. The season-opening Gala will be held on June 18. The recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award and the gala program will be announced on March 15.

The artist Rafael Mahdavi speaks several languages and is a citizen of the world. He most identifies with America and Spain but describes himself as an exile. Trying to Get Home is a series of four paintings that convey a spirit quest and odyssey.

The Clark Art Institute airs an encore presentation of Follies, a production of London’s National Theatre, on Saturday, February 26 at 1 pm. Follies is being shown to honor the memory of its composer, Stephen Sondheim, a graduate of Williams College, who maintained ties to Williamstown throughout his life.

Terrific performances, wonderful choreography and close harmonies make it almost certain that you’ll thoroughly enjoy Five Guys Named Moe now at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford through Sunday, Feb. 27.

Boca Stage, a professional South Florida company formerly known as Primal Forces, has mounted a funny and touching production of the satiric Rx. The play lightly satirizes the pharmaceutical industry. The production runs through Feb. 6.

Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a novel and a movie, inspire Ricky Ian Gordo's new opera. A lush production at the Museum of Jewish Heritage shows us NYCO alive and well.

Barrington Stage Company, will produce a 2022 season that will feature two Tony Award-winning musicals, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, four world premieres and one of the true absurdist masterpieces of 20th century theatre. The 2022 season marks Julianne Boyd’s final season as Artistic Director prior to her retirement at the end of September.

Supporting photography-based artists, writers, and curators and the dialogue around diversity, race, identity, and social justice. The Center for Photography at Woodstock seeking applicants for residences.