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This summer the Cape Ann Museum reopened after extensive renovation. The occasion is marked by the blockbuster exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea curated by Eliza Phillips who serves as editor of a handsomely illustrated, scholarly catalogue.

We have been taught, from a very young age, to live from the outside in. We are handed a cultural blueprint that demands we construct massive, heavy monuments to our own egos just to prove we deserve to take up space. We use our careers, our titles, and our busy schedules as armor, terrified that if we strip them away, there will be nothing left underneath.

Founded in 1970 by Tina Ramirez this was the sixth time that Ballet Hispanico visited Jacob's Pillow. Since 2009 the company has been led by Eduardo Vilaro.

The goal is for The Snow Goose to go on to future productions, including, possibly Broadway. Hilton said that during its run in East Haddam, Goodspeed will be inviting and encouraging Broadway professionals – including producers – to see it.

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra stopped off at David Geffen Hall in New York as part of their Invincible Tour. The first program was bracketed by two urgent works—notably a new suite by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets.

Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale has mounted a funny and touching production of the bitingly funny satire "Eureka Day." The production runs through Sept. 13 in Island City Stage's intimate black-box theater in Wilton Manors. This mounting marks the second production of "Eureka Day" in South Florida in less than six months. "Eureka Day" is the third most-produced play in the United States this season.

The character of Hamlet, the tragic Prince of Denmark represents one of the great roles in the canon. Brooding, melancholy, unhinged and bent on revenge for the murder of his father he is both sympathetic and not. He’s an early prototype of the modern anti-hero.

Florida Theater On Stage’s summer reading list worth for a few evenings encompasses three looks at our venerated Stephen Sondheim including a fresh off the press biography. Plus we dissect a detailed look at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s evolution from play to film, plus a look at the bloodiest plays of the early 20th Century, plus a newly prefaced edition of Raisin in the Sun with post-script analysis, and a collection of in-depth interviews with theater critics of the 20th and 21st Century.

In its third mounting, Bridge Across the Pond Theatre presents a strong production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, Other Desert Cities. The production runs through Aug. 30 at Empire Stage's intimate black box theater in Ft. Lauderdale. The play takes place in 2004 in Palm Springs, Calif. and an epilogue is set in Seattle several years later.

The centennial tour of the Martha Graham Company reached Jacob's Pillow where it has deep roots. The company is custodian and curator of the 181 works she created. The program in four parts presented vintage and new works created recently for the company. Graham is remembered today as the greatest master of modern dance.

Film at Lincoln Center presents Bibliomania: A Preface to Chronovisor, a 15-film repertory series running from August 28 through September 3, 2026. The festival preludes the release of Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s thriller Chronovisor with a program exploring cinema centered on the texts stored in reading rooms, research facilities, and libraries.

Twenty-five years ago next month, the unimaginable happened. Two passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Towers, another into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Ohio.The world stood still for days in shock and horror. We learned many people demonstrated enormous acts of courage and kindness. One of those acts of kindness occurred after 28 jumbo jets enroute to the US from Europe were told to land at the airport in Gander, Newfoundland. US air space was closed.

The acting is terrific; the production values are great and yet The Cannibals of McCower County is a play I probably will never see again. Why? I find it difficult to watch a character who relishes in manipulation of people as well as emotional and physical cruelty. A character with no redeeming qualities.

Santa Fe Opera offers an imposing American premiere of Tobias Picker's powerful statement about an oppressed group through the biography of Lili Elbe, who underwent sex reassignment surgery a century ago.

The death of the bald eagle known as Jackie has left millions of people grieving. Very few of them ever caught a glimpse of her in-person soaring over Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino mountains of California, but they feel they know her personally. She and her mate Shadow were YouTube stars, influencers, you might say, of an audience that followed the lifestyles of the feathered and famous.

'I was joking.' Joanna's voice was soft. It sounded far away. He visualized the miles of phone line his voice was crawling along to reach her. It bothered him that he couldn't touch her. His words were not enough; he didn't trust the line with the nuance he was giving his words. Or would give them. If he ever made sense again. 'It doesn't matter,' Joanna added after a pause.

Mozart's popular fable-like singspiel is given a scintillating, near comic-like treatment. The hero wins the girl and passes the tests of the brotherhood

Most artists fret over their legacy. Rafael Mahdavi has taken the matter into his own hands. In a new book with 100 color images he surveys his output from 1972-2026.

With Theater for the New City's 14th Dream Up Festival fast approaching (August 23 through September 13), The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.

When you’re this sick, the present moment doesn’t feel like a sanctuary. It feels more like a heavy, itchy wool coat that you’re stuck in and can’t unzip. In the middle of all this, I’ve found myself clinging to one simple, almost silly thought. It’s become my anchor: “This moment is my life with shingles; the next moment will be my life without shingles.”

Oakland Theater Project takes on Tennessee Williams' Southern Gothic tale and adds another dimension by making Val, the Orpheus figure, black. Drifting into a Southern town and becoming intimate with a white woman in the early 1950s is not likely to have a positive outcome.

In Back Bay’s elegant nineteenth-century Commonwealth Avenue Mall, a surprising summertime apparition has arrived: a herd of elephants. They do not thunder past, but stand in a quiet procession, projecting an uncannily elephantine presence. The Great Elephant Migration, a free, traveling public-art exhibition, brings 100 life-size sculptures of Asian elephants to the Mall between Arlington and Fairfield Streets through September 13. Installed as though moving east toward Boston Common, the herd is at once an environmental warning, an occasion for wonder and curiosity, and a persuasive instance of art made genuinely public.

The author posits that music arose from the rhythms of everyday life, later joined with dancing and flutes. By the classical music era rhythm was no longer prominent, but it arose again with the invention of electric music, which enabled musicians to create new sounds never before encountered by human ears or brains.

Sohn Fine Art presents Dark Side of the Moon, a compelling group exhibition featuring photography and unconventional materials by Marieken Cochius, Chuck Kelton, Regina Durante Jestrow, and Jonathan Prince. The exhibition explores expansive territory where art intersects with material experimentation, revealing practices that move beyond the expected limits of each medium.

Best Friends! Until they were twenty-one. This was the pact they had struck in their boyhood. A unique understanding. A covenant that Joey had kept and preserved. For ten years it had jogged quietly with him, the stride indelibly paced by the sustained and persistent flipping of his Canadian penny. Gary and him. He and Gary. As intrinsically bound together as the two sides of the coin.