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  • Lincoln in the Bardo at the Met Opera

    Missy Mazzoli Triumphs

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 21st, 2026

    Missy Mazzoli’s new opera, Lincoln in the Bardo, recently had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. As a leading contemporary American composer, Mazzoli writes exceptionally well for the human voice. The Met has provided a luxury cast featuring Peter Mattei as Lincoln alongside Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, all in top form.

  • From Call It in the Air

    Waiting for the Sublime

    By: Gregory Light - Oct 21st, 2026

    Joey was not feeling sublime about the essay. Especially since he was taking advantage of his role in Higgins’ history course by writing a paper on Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. And despite having read a literary critic refer to the play as sublime. If anything, writing the essay was the opposite of sublime. Higgins had insisted he have carte blanche.

  • Streetcar Named Desire

    At Boston Lyric Opera

    By: BLO - Oct 21st, 2026

    Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.

  • Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies

    Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

    By: Jay Handelman - Oct 20th, 2026

    Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.

  • Carrie the Musical

    At Manatee Players

    By: Jay Handelman - Oct 20th, 2026

    You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”

  • Part III: The Burden and Grace of the Family Name

    The Well

    By: Cheng Tong - Oct 20th, 2026

    The well was dug long before you arrived. Its waters are cold, pure, and constant, supplied by underground streams you cannot see. But the well does not draw its own water. The stewardship lies entirely in the unglamorous, repetitive daily discipline: walking the worn path, lowering the bucket into the dark, and hauling the weight back up into the sunlight.

  • MCLA Theatre Announces 2026-2027 Season

    Celebrating Collaboration, Creativity, and the Art of Storytelling

    By: MCLA - Oct 20th, 2026

    Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre announces its 2026-2027 performance season, featuring six events that celebrate the possibilities of live theater through professional collaboration, inventive storytelling, student experimentation, and original performance.

  • Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company

    ANTES DEL FIN in Cambridge

    By: Flamenco - Oct 20th, 2026

    The Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company features a top cast of dancers, musicians and guest artists from Spain in a new show, ANTES DEL FIN (BEFORE THE END) that explores human evolution and condition through the lens of Flamenco music, dance and theater.

  • Alkeme Restaurant, Santa Fe, New Mexico - Guest Review by Karin Cordell

    Vietnamese-centric Gourmet Peasant Food

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 20th, 2026

    Santa Fe's richly diverse and exquisite restaurant scene now includes a top-drawer Vietnamese restaurant. Unique ingredients and creative combinations lead to a fine dining experience

  • Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Arborist Day at River Walk

    An Annual Event

    By: Botanical - Oct 20th, 2026

    The event invites area arborists to take part in this day of pruning, removals and plantings in the peaceful and sensitive stretches of Riverwalk and Riverfront. Arborists will convene near the W.E.B. DuBois rain garden/kiosk off River Street at about 8 a.m.

  • Mark H. Dold in Vanya at Barrington Stage Company

    A Career Defining Performance

    By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 19th, 2026

    Everything about the Simon Stephens deconstruction of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya into the one act solo by Mark H. Dold, Vanya, at Barrington Stage company is truly remarkable.

  • Every Saturday Night: A Harlem of the West Musical

    World Premiere About Urban Renewal in San Francisco

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 17th, 2026

    The Fillmore was the Bay Area's center of African-American life and jazz in the 1950s. An ill-advised urban renewal project displaced over 10,000 residents and forever destroyed the area's character. A new musical looks at the environs then and now through the context of a fictional family

  • Greek National Opera at Carnegie Hall

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Supports Culture

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 17th, 2026

    The Greek National Opera made its United States debut at Carnegie Hall with a program titled Nikos Kazantzakis An Odyssey in Music. Kazantzakis' novels are among the most frequently translated across the globe, and his iconic character Zorba came alive on stage at Carnegie.

  • The Wyeths: Three Generations | Works from the Bank of America Collection

    The New Britain Museum of American Art

    By: New Britain - Oct 16th, 2026

    The exhibition features remarkable paintings, drawings, and illustrations spanning the early 1900s through the early 2000s, highlighting the Wyeths’ creative legacy and distinct artistic styles. Notably, these generational works invite museumgoers to explore the Wyeth family's creative legacy.

  • Kathy Soles Happening at the Edge

    Hall Space Gallery in Boston

    By: Hall - Oct 16th, 2026

    In Happening at the Edge, Soles continues to draw inspiration from nature, specifically areas of transition: the shore, meadows, tree line, and natural boundaries. These areas are a change of habitat for different life forms. These places can bring anxiety and calm.

  • Ben Bliss at the Park Avenue Armory

    Mix and Match Songs Accompanied by Christopher Allen

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 15th, 2026

    In the opera house, he is known as Benjamin Bliss and is highly regarded. At the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, he goes simply by Ben, singing a wide range of songs in his beautiful voice and speaking to us through the sound of music.

  • From Call It In the Air

    Pape Station

    By: Gregory Light - Oct 15th, 2026

    The book he was reading was This Way for The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen: Tadeusz Borowski's numbing collection of short stories set in Auschwitz. Unlike The Triple Alliance, it was neither amusing nor speculative. It was fact. Disturbing and actual fact.

  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Still Awaits County Repairs

    Two Years Post Hurricane and No Action

    By: Carrie Seidman and Jay Handelman - Oct 15th, 2026

    The prolonged delay is the result of a dispute between the county and the Hermitage – which has rented the property for a nominal fee since 2002 in return for caretaking and maintenance – over how those repairs could most expeditiously and economically be completed, and who should be responsible for making them.

  • The Abduction from the Seraglio

    Early Mozart Singspiel that Foretold Later Operatic Masterpieces

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 14th, 2026

    A light-hearted culture clash between Europeans and Turks begins with captivity but ends in magnanimity.

  • Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George

    Summer 2027 Co Production Barrington Stage and Tectonic Theatre Project

    By: Barrington - Oct 14th, 2026

    “Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”

  • Lit Salon of the Berkshires

    Hosted by The Mount

    By: Mount - Oct 13th, 2026

    he Mount, Edith Wharton Cultural Center, presents The Lit Salon of the Berkshires, a new series curated by author Michelle Young (The Art Spy) that pairs literature with live music in an intimate, candlelit setting. Held at Barrington Hall in Great Barrington, the Salon is a unique Berkshire collaboration, and it feels made for the long, cozy months ahead.

  • Berkshire Botanical Gardens Rooted in Place

    Ecological Gardening Symposium

    By: BBG - Oct 13th, 2026

    The theme for this year’s symposium, “The Living Forest,” focuses on the remarkable ecological, cultural and community connections that make forests essential to our lives. From carbon storage and climate resilience to tree health, forest management and the remarkable relationships between species, this symposium brings together ecologists, foresters, educators, and land stewards to explore what makes a forest a living, interconnected system and how we can become better stewards of it.

  • Berkshire Opera Festival

    Martin Mansfield New President and CEO

    By: BOC - Oct 13th, 2026

    Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) has announced the appointment of Martin Mansfield as its new President and CEO, bringing extensive experience in arts leadership, fundraising, law, and opera to the organization.

  • Mira Cantor and Nat Martin

    At Boston's KIngston Gallery

    By: Kingston - Oct 13th, 2026

    This December Kingston Gallery is pleased to present in the Main Gallery Mirror, Mirror, an exhibition of virtuosic new paintings and drawings by Mira Cantor, work which considers the incredible colors of skin, the intimacy of portraiture, and the courage it takes to look at one another. In the Project Space is A Clutter of Roses, the latest iteration of the ever-intriguing work of Nat Martin,

  • Rory Beerits: (a)part of nature,

    At Boston Sculptors

    By: BS - Oct 13th, 2026

    Repurposing discarded metal materials, Beerits crafts creatures straddling the line between the familiar and the mythic. In his realm, scythes become wings, colanders become scales, wrenches become pincers, and oil drums become feathers. Employing traditional metalworking and found-object assembly, he explores the spiritual power of the natural world through the materials of our human-dominated era.

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