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What is striking about the current production of The Cherry Orchard at the Park Avenue Armory in New York is its musicality. You notice this quickly, because, if you’re like most of us, you don't understand the Korean language spoken in this version of the play. It was written by the brilliant director Simon Stone, who says he wanted to "pin words onto his actors." You clearly get the emotion of the phrases—they chirp and tinkle and chip away at the air like musical notes.

This year, each of the company’s four mainstage productions will be held at a different venue, with just one at its usual “home” stage, the Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. The most unusual will be a traveling, outdoor, site-specific work.

In the days since Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Dolly Jacobs’ Sept. 11 announcement that she had been terminated by the organization’s board of directors, fans of the legendary aerialist, supporters of the nonprofit and members of the Sarasota circus community have reacted with shock, outrage and vows to discontinue support for the organization.

Images Cinema will present a second edition of Indigenous Peoples Film Festival, its series featuring indigenous films from across the US and Canada, beginning Monday, October 5 and continuing weekly on Mondays through October 26th, with a finale on Thursday, October 29.

Though it seems as though everyone must know the plot of come from Away by now, it is set in Gander, Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days following. Gander, once a major refueling stop for cross Atlantic flights becomes one of the airports that flights that are in the air on 9/11 are directed to when the US airspace is closed. 38 jumbo jets, mostly originating in Europe, are told to land; the 7,000 passengers on board exceed the population of the town.

The show tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six men formed in Germany in the 1920s. Their close harmony and jazzy routines, as well as their humor made them an international success. Tours of Europe led to an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1932. Best selling recordings led to movie contracts.

Each October, the Garden’s 24 acres are transformed for the region’s best-known end-of-season celebration. What began in 1935 as a modest plant and bake sale has grown into a beloved Berkshire tradition featuring family activities, live entertainment, regional food, artisan vendors and hands-on gardening and educational programs.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces a rich array of humanities events to complement its orchestral programs this fall.

Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, “Roman Fever” explores friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and the secrets that can reshape a lifetime. In Wharton’s sharply observed story, two longtime friends revisit their shared past, gradually revealing simmering tensions, long-buried secrets, and startling revelations. The reading brings Wharton’s razor-sharp wit and enduring fascination with the complexities of human relationships vividly to life.

Call it whatever you like; fluke, fate; quirk; but there she was, less than twenty-four hours later, casually going about her business in broad daylight. Crossing the street. As if nothing could be more natural.

Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.

At the Sept. 10 ceremony, the theater company broke with tradition to kick off the launch of Payne Park Auditorium and the fundraising campaign by plugging in a ghost light, which has been part of theatrical history and superstition since the 19th century.

Join us for a series of exciting lectures that brings the greatest names in their fields through our doors. Hear from innovative artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers in an ongoing conversation with you—their audience—on stimulating issues in culture today. Chosen for their creative brilliance and fresh perspectives, these speakers share their vision, their working process, and their insights.

Beautifully installed, aesthetically accessible, and sensitively illuminated, the show explores the artistic bond among three pivotal 20th-century American painters: Milton Avery (1885–1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Their shared summers in Gloucester—beginning in the 1920s and continuing into the mid-1940s—had a profound and lasting effect on their individual development as artists.

In ethics, there is a clear divide between absolutism and relativism. Ethical absolutism is based in the belief that there is a singular universal moral standard across all peoples & cultures. Moral relativism, however, is the belief there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles, but rather that circumstances are culturally shaped, affecting choice.

Launching the Berkshire shoulder season, Shakespeare & Company, is presenting a dark comedy, The Norwegians, on weekends in the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's a rare treat to see the hilarious Elizabeth Aspenlieder sharing a stage with Peggy Phar Wilson.

Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.

The exhibition brings together more than 140 artifacts — including mosaics, sculpture, architectural fragments, ceramics, lamps, and other objects of daily life — drawn from six U.S. museums: Baltimore Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works illuminate the architecture, artistic production, and everyday experiences of one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most significant cities.

Discussion will consider the breadth and vitality of the exhibition, which brings together 19 artists from Cape Ann and beyond, exploring the rich and varied language of printmaking. Through traditional and contemporary approaches, the exhibition presents a diverse range of techniques and perspectives, offering a thoughtfully curated selection that reflects the creative possibilities of the medium today.

‘Joanna.’ Joey Couldn't believe it. 'My God! I'm right. It is her.' He ducked behind the Political Science shelf in the University Textbook store, snatching up the first book that came to hand: Federalism and the French Canadians by Pierre Elliot Trudeau. 'Joanna,' he said to himself, again, his mind racing, 'She's standing right over there. What'll I say?' He looked at his watch. Six days, three hours. Roughly. Too many days had passed for him to just say hello as if nothing had happened.

Theatre Lab's annual family-friendly production this year is the humorous, thrilling, and endearing "Baker Street Beginnings." The production marks the world premiere of Gina Montét's new play.

We had been sitting in comfortable silence for about thirty minutes. At not even five feet tall, she was a peanut of a woman, resting quietly in her wheelchair while I towered beside her. Together, we watched with great amusement as squirrels chased each other up and around the bark of the trees just outside her window.

September 25-October 4: The Village Trip celebrates culture and history in NYC’s iconic Greenwich Village. The 2026 edition of this annual festival includes nearly a dozen concerts performed by established classical and contemporary musicians and rising stars.

Smoke, the iconic jazz club on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has everything. First and foremost, the music is wonderful. Set in a smallish room with plush red velvet curtains bracketing the stage and three tiny chandeliers dotting the ceiling, the room is warm and comfortable. The acoustics are great.

When he was first hired as artistic director of Key Chorale in 2007, Joseph Caulkins figured he would lead the chorus of more than 100 voices for five or six years and then move on to the next job opportunity. It was such a different organization back then that he never expected to be preparing for his 20th season.