Two hours later Joey was still smarting from her response to his phone call. He was tucked up in the Maitland's office in an ageing, three-story walk-up on King Street East. But Joanna's words found him. ('I wish I didn't like you,' was the best thing she had said.)

For the third iteration of Shaker Museum’s acclaimed series of pop-up exhibitions, Kiki Smith, who has been lauded since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary work, will be the guest curator. Shaker Outpost: Kiki Smith’s Visiting considers the quiet intimacy of welcome, bringing together a selection of Smith’s blankets. Alongside original Shaker cabinets, chests, and other storage pieces, Smith will be showing woven blankets, works on paper, and sculptural objects.

The artist began casting his paintings in bronze using the lost-wax method to further the fluidity of his medium. Fields of Capture includes several unique bronze casts: Whitewash Relief, Silver Nitrate Relief, and Cast Relief Painting (II), each with their distinctive set of folds and crevices, and a finish that either reflects or absorbs light

I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.

Sixteen years after leaving her native Venezuela to settle in Tampa where she would become an associate instructor of dance at the University of South Florida, Paula Nuñez founded the nonprofit Tampa City Ballet, marshalling 42 dancers from the Tampa Bay area to present the company’s first major performance at the Hillsborough Community College in Ybor City in 2018.

A Black-billed Cuckoo, is the second play written by Mat Smart as part of the DNA New Work Series at the La Jolla Playhouse. Smart, an avid birder himself, got the idea for the play during a birding outing after he didn’t see the cuckoo that everyone else saw. The play, directed by Shelley Butler, follows five bird-watchers over 24 hours in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Featuring book, music, and lyrics written by Sophie B. Hawkins, BIRDS OF NEW YORK brings to life the heartfelt story of an estranged daughter who returns home to New York City with her seven-year-old son to reconnect with her dying father.

This one-day symposium explores current scholarship on early modern European art and is organized in conjunction with An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection

In the story, Carrie has long been an outcast among her classmates, taunted for how she acts and what she wears, and she must deal with an oppressive relationship with her mother, Margaret, who has strong views on religion and how Carrie should be raised.

Toward the end of his life Agrippa is known to have written a now lost autobiography. In the manner of I Claudius the author Robert Harris has created a first person narrative. It covers the complex and troubled era of civil wars following the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Agrippa was lifelong friends with Caesar's heir, a great nephew Octavian. This is the fascinating tale of his rise to Augustus who destroyed the Republic and became Rome's first emperor.

Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.

At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.

During the Cold War, an advertising executive is mistaken by spies for a U.S government man of interest to their hostile country. A chase by plane, train, and automobile from New York to Mount Rushmore commences. The twist (and there is plenty of dance-like choreography) is that the underlying tension from the suspense is retained, but the action is played for laughs.

Now in its fourth year, the MassArt Common Good Awards shine a light on individuals and organizations who put art and design to work in service of others—expanding access to creative opportunities, enriching public life, championing diverse voices, and imagining new possibilities for their communities.

Joey flopped down on his bed in residence. Joanna’s words prowled in his head; uncomfortably so, like sharp thorns every so often making him wince to temper the sting of their indictment. He knew that she was right. He did make scenes. He was impulsive. He did shout. He was crazy. 'I can't help it,' he had said multiple times in the long debate that circled and cawed in his head like a murder of crows.

The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation announced that it will donate one of the artist’s oil paintings, Untitled, c. 1936, to the Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection.

Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”

Because of its isolation, brutal weather, and limited support for tourism, Greenland attracts few visitors. Yet it offers an experience unlike any other, and most seasoned travelers, and even neophytes, will find things of interest.

There is a profound difference between dedication and obsession, between steady devotion and spiritual zealotry.

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.