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  • Angels in America - Part 1 - Millenium Approaches

    Classic Returns to Bay Area Home

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 01st, 2024

    Tony Kushner's award-winning two-part classic centering on homosexuality and AIDS during the epidemic in the 1980s is given a magnificent production by Oakland Theater Project with taut direction and exceptional acting. Fiction that is anchored in reality with one real historical figure, also drifts into fantasy. Its powerful treatment finds corollaries in today's world.

  • Power of the People: Art and Democracy

    Agit Prop at the MFA

    By: MFA - Oct 02nd, 2024

    Organized against the backdrop of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents diverse perspectives on democracy through 175 works of art that include ceramics, coins, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and fashion

  • The Weir By Conor McPherson

    It Was a Stormy Night in the Pub

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 29th, 2024

    Regarded as the most popular of McPherson's, plays a generation on The Weir is being given an intimate, lively production, directed by Eric Hill. Its trope, locals gathered in a small pub in a remote village verges on a cliché of Irish culture. The one act play conflates copious amounts of “small” shots of whiskey accompanied by pints of Harp or Guinness. As we snidely learn the real men drink stout.

  • Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center Theater

    Playwright Ayad Akhtar Tackles AI

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 01st, 2024

    Robert Downey Jr.. is everything you could hope for and more in this New York stage debut as the title character in Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal.  Downey started his career playing a dog in Pound directed by his father.  Familiar to filmgoers, his physical presence on stage at the Lincoln Center Theater combines his casual warmth with an edge demanded by a role in which his character may well have precipitated a suicide.

  • The Daughter of the Regiment

    Livermore Valley Opera's Comic Charmer

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 30th, 2024

    An orphan Marie was adopted by a French army regiment as an infant. She promised to marry only a member of the regiment but falls in love with an outsider. Complications ensue as she learns that she was born to a marquise and is spirited away to live a noble life and have an arranged marriage within her new station. But this is a comedy. Do you really think that's going to happen?

  • Provincetown Artist and Jeweler Earle Pilgrim

    Exhibition and Discussion with Peter Stebbins

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 24th, 2024

    Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an artist, jewelry maker, and experimental filmmaker. His role in the advanced art of Provincetown remains unheralded. With his wife Lily they resided in the back of their jewelry shop at 393 Commercial street. They invited artists like Lester Johnson and Alan Kaprow to show their work. After 1954 their shop housed Sun Gallery.

  • China's Wudang Mountain

    Plethora of Ancient Temples

    By: Cheng Tong - Sep 25th, 2024

    The most iconic Daoist temple on Wudang Mountain is the Golden Summit Temple, situated atop the highest peak, Jade Emperor Peak. This temple is dedicated to the Jade Emperor, a supreme deity in Daoist mythology, and is a symbol of the mountain’s spiritual significance. The temple’s architecture is awe-inspiring, with intricate carvings, colorful murals, and a grand main hall housing a colossal statue of the Jade Emperor.

  • Jazz in the Berkshires

    Fall Schedule

    By: Ed Bride - Sep 27th, 2024

    The annual Fall Jazz Sprawl is a week of free and ticketed jazz events throughout Berkshire County. The series includes some events that were organized by Berkshires Jazz, as well as others that were planned and sponsored by the venues presenting the artists. The series concludes with a headline concert featuring the Grace Kelly Quartet plus a string section augmented by the Kids 4 Harmony advanced ensemble.

  • Primary Trust at Barrington Stage

    2024 Pulitzer Prize for Eboni Booth

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 23rd, 2024

    Early on in his role as artistic director, Alan Paul, saw Primary Trust at its off Broadway premiere. He booked it for Barrington before it won a Pulitzer Prize. The production at Barrington Stage couldn’t be more timely. Not surprisingly this deliciously intimate drama is well on its way to a sold out run.

  • Private Lives

    Noel Coward's Romp at American Conservatory Theater

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 20th, 2024

    Ex-spouses have remarried to other partners on the same day. Seeing one another on adjoining terraces at their honeymoon hotel, the exes rekindle their love-hate relationship. Will they re-unite? What about their new spouses? Are they a match?

  • Opera Philadelphia Opens a New Season

    Missy Mazzoli's New Opera Asks: Do You Hear a Hum

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 22nd, 2024

    Opera Philadelphia is a company that has done everything right for the past decade and yet continues to struggle to reach an audience. On April 25 it was announced that Anthony Roth Costanzo, a Princeton-educated counter tenor who not only attracts audiences as a singing artist but also has successfully experimented with programming, would begin his term as general director and president on June 1. His first public act as head of the company was to offer tickets at $11 and then pay-what-you-want or can on top of that.

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    San Francisco Opera's Powerful Look at Socio-political Dystopia

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 19th, 2024

    Handmaids act as birthing surrogates in the dystopian land of Gilead, the successor to the United States after a coup by Christian fundamentalists. Like others, Offred was captured trying to escape the country and has been detailed as a handmaid. She now fears exile to the "colonies" or execution for not following the strict Ten Commandments based rules of Gilead. Poul Ruders's music is as chilling as the original story from Margaret Atwood.

  • The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art

    Coming to Salem's Peabody Essex Museum

    By: PEM - Sep 19th, 2024

    The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, will premiere on October 18, 2025 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and subsequently tour North America from 2025–2027. The exhibition will be on view at Peabody Essex Museum from February through June 2027.

  • Joanna Klain and Richard Criddle at Eclipse Gallery

    Multi-Media Works

    By: Eclipse - Sep 18th, 2024

    Both artists have their own extensive exhibition histories. Both have in recent years have become more playful and experimental in their independent approaches. Synchronicity exists between their recent work. Each separately builds and composes imaginary imagery that reflect interior preoccupations with the mysterious and the mischievous. Reception Saturday the 19th of October at 3pm.

  • Provincetown Artist Tony Vevers

    Showed with Sun Gallery and Long Point Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 17th, 2024

    The British born Tony Vevers served as a Staff Sargent for two years during WWII. After which he studied fine arts at Yale on the GI Bill. He and his wife, artist Elspeth Halvorsen, settled in Provincetown. He did carpentry to pay the bills. He showed at the legendary Sun Gallery and was later a founding member of the prestigious Long Point Gallery. Their daughter Tabitha is an artist married to artist/ photographer, Daniel Ranalli.

  • The Magic Flute at Opera San Jose

    A Compelling Rendering of Mozart's Masterpiece

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 16th, 2024

    Tamino falls in love with the daughter of the Queen of Night, Pamina, from her picture. To win her hand, he must conquer three trials to become an initiate into a religious order. This classic receives a sterling production from cast, creatives, and conductor, 19-year-old wonderkind Alma Deutscher.

  • Leah Hawkins Captivates at the Park Avenue Armory

    Awards by the Richard Tucker Foundation

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 16th, 2024

    Leah Hawkins performed in the Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. She mesmerizes for her moment as Strawberry Woman in Porgy and Bess.  You perked up for her Masha in Queen of Spades.  She has performed an off-stage prayer in Aida and graduates to the highly-anticipated title role of the opera in Arizona next spring. A singer who can stop a show in a minute in a 4,000 seat venue, filled the intimate Officers Room room to overflowing. 

  • Maggie at Goodspeed

    New Musical Launches Fall Season

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 16th, 2024

    Maggie is a heartfelt musical that should appeal to a wide range of audiences. It is the antithesis in many ways of what some would expect of a Goodspeed musical – there is not a tap dance or big dance number in sight.

  • Hell's Kitchen Musical on Broadway

    Aiicia Keys Tells Her Story

    By: Susan Hall - Sep 14th, 2024

    Alicia Key has created herself as “Ali” in the musical Hell’s Kitchen now playing on Broadway. Keys grew up in the Manhattan Plaza complex, a few blocks from Times Square. Built during one of New York’s deep downturns, the building was supposed to be an upper middle class apartment house. Discounted apartments did rent.  It became one of New York’s most desirable residences for artists. It formed the artist Keys.

  • Zombie Formalism

    In the Trenches of Art War

    By: Martin Mugar - Sep 13th, 2024

    Zombie Modernism is Modernism without the authoritative stance of self-consciousness. There is no one home.

  • Un Ballo in Maschera

    San Franciso Opera's Outstanding Production

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 13th, 2024

    In this opera drawn from history, Sweden's Gustavus III loves Amelia, the wife of his friend and ally Renato. When the husband finds out, he joins assassin conspirators from the disaffected nobility. This Verdi masterpiece, replete with dramatic music, is given the finest treatment by accomplished principals and creative staging designers.

  • ICA Showcases East Boston Artists

    Harboring Creativity

    By: eastboston.com - Sep 13th, 2024

    Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of East Boston’s artistic community at “Harboring Creativity,” an exhilarating two-day art event happening for its second year at the iconic ICA Watershed on November 16 and 17, 2024, from 11 AM to 4 PM with a reception on Saturday from 4pm – 6pm with food donated by local restaurants.

  • Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Seminal Gloucester Artists

    On View at Matthew Swift Gallery

    By: Swift - Sep 11th, 2024

    Both Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony are among the contemporary women artists whose work is on view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 29. They are having solo shows at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery.

  • The Prom

    Musical About Sexual Discrimination in High School

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 10th, 2024

    Four New York theater performers hope to attract attention for what they purport to be the selfless act of inducing an Indiana high school to reverse the cancellation of its prom because a lesbian student planned to attend with a girlfriend as her date. Based on a true story, the visitors encounter unexpected headwinds. Despite notes of pathos and bitterness, a joyous tone prevails, and the play ends on a hopeful note.

  • Three Tall Persian Women By Awni Abdi-Bahri

    World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 09th, 2024

    Three Tall Persian Women by Awni Abdi-Bahri, an emerging playwright, is having its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Three generations of women gather to celebrate the anniversary of the passing of the husband of Nasrin. Her daughter Goinar, a recent MFA graduate, has flown in from New York. Things are not going well when Shayan, a most eligible bachelor, arrives with flowers. All hell breaks out when they drink magic mushroom tea.

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