Rose is a French term that we all associate with French Rose wines from Provence. Well, the world has changed-Roses are from everywhere in the world.

It Shoulda Been You offers a fun, frantic wedding experience at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. The music all has been called "Broadway's Most Uproarious Family Affair." A stellar South Florida cast performs farce with flair.

Cleveland-born playwright Rajiv Joseph, had a breakthrough with “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” It premiered at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA. in 2009. “Bengal Tiger”, then performed at the Mark Taper Forum (MTF) in 2010, before moving to Broadway; becoming a Pulitzer Prize finalist. “Guards at the Taj” following in 2016, again premiering at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; establishing him as a major American playwright. “Archduke”, his current dark, comedy, had its world premiere at MTF in Los Angeles.

The tale comes direct from Aulis and Euripides. Gary Owen has updated the sacrificial woman to the 21st Century, where in Wales, like many other places around the world, women are still being asked to make superhuman sacrifices. Sophie Melville's tour de force performance is superb.

During a media tour of the final phase of build out for the 17 acre MASS MoCA campus artists, curators and installlers were working around the clock. While some of the works were not ready for prime time we caught an exciting glimpse of what visitors will encounter this summer in North Adams. The development of Building Six adds 130,000 square-feet of usable space. For renovations, programming and endowment the museum has raised $65 million.

Michael Riesman and Ensemble Signal celebrate Philip Glass as you drink wine on the stage of the Miller Theater and enjoy music up close and personal. Glass' ritualistic beats and his emerging structures were hypnotic.

Delighting fans of all ages a packed New York Philharmonic conducted the music of John Williams during a screening of the Stephen Spielberg film "E.T." A screening of the belived film accompanied by the Boston Pops will be presented at Tanglewood this summer.

Nine was performed impeccably by the cast in a South Florida production of the musical based on Fellini film triumphs at Broward Stage Door Theatre. The staging of Nine takes us into the mind of a frustrated filmmaker

Matisse’s collectibles had a profound influence on his creative choices. Allowing us a priceless opportunity to see how the artist’s mind worked and the ways his creative process unfolded, this magnetic exhibition at the MFA Boston allows us to examine them in relationship to his art. As its only North American venue, Matisse in the Studio will only visit Boston.

Lady Bird Johnson is now known for her signature role in the beatification of America, but as her husband prepared for his 1964 Presidential campaign, in which he crushed Barry Goldwater, he enlisted the aid of his wife, a Southerner, in wooing voters in the South. Vernacular music enhances the Lady Bird opera and also Fireworks by Kitty Brazelton, in which we see our present through the eyes of the future.

On Site Opera is committed to producing in a place that echoes the theme or setting of an opera. The enchanting West Side Community Garden provided the set for an early Mozart opera. The cast was superb, picking tulips, dashing through flowerbeds, all for the seeming purpose of finding love. Where better to look and listen than a garden?

When visiting the Frank Stella retropective at the Whitney in 2015 the critic had his car towed. The event was so costly and inconvenient that Martin Mugar is thinking twice of driving to Manhattan to view the upcoming Rauschenberg exhibition. Many of his concerns and misgivings are informed by the critical comments of the critic Jed Perl. Here Mugar refects on Perls of wsdom. They enforce his own ideas of how Rauschenberg is emeblematic of the decline and fall of art in our time. As Mugar states "If you like your postmodern condition you can keep your postmodern condition and Rauschenberg's your guy."

Opera is a form of many pieces. When the set, production, singing and orchestra work together, opera makes its own case. Cyrano de Bergerac realizes the seemingly Sisyphean task beautifully.

Lincoln Center Theater's The King and I is a richly-emotional experience. Performers shine in an equity national tour of popular musical about Anna and the King of Siam The perrenial musical proves relevant decades after its Broadway premiere.

A recommendation for the Peabody Essex Museum to see particularly the special exhibition 'WOW' came in an understated manner, or I just did not pick up quickly enough what a delight the show would represent. We drove to Salem from Gloucester, where we were visiting, on a rainy and miserable afternoon and that made our day!

Paradise Blue is the third play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit cycle, which was inspired by August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle. The other two plays are Detroit ’67, produced in 2013 by Northlight Theatre, which has scheduled the third play, Skeleton Crew, to open in January 2018. Timeline staged Morisseau’s Sunset Baby (set in New York) in 2016.

Some years ago they built a home and studio on some 20 acres deep in the woods of Cape Ann's legendary Dogtown Common. They like the privacy and seclusion. During a recent week in Gloucester we met for an extensive studio visit and discussion of the upcoming June exhibition "Gabrielle Barzaghi: Perfect World" at Trident Gallery. Several drawings created in enraged response to outrageous statements by Donald Trump were included in The Body Politic a group exhibition and performance series at the gallrery.

The Desert Rose Theatre, of Cathedral City, the only theatrical venue serving the LBGTQ community, is presenting a slick, snappy, and outrageously funny production written by Michael McKeever, that bills itself as a dark comedy spoof/satire entitled “Clark Gable Slept Here”, a Hollywood Fable directed by Resident Director and theatre co-Founder Jim Strait.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival has added two more opportunities for audiences to experience Trisha Brown Dance Company. Originally a five-performance run, August 16-19 in the Ted Shawn Theatre, the Pillow has added a Thursday matinee to the company’s schedule. Members of Trisha Brown Dance Company will also perform the site-specific work Trisha Brown: In Plain Site at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, August 13, a co-presentation of Jacob’s Pillow Dance and the Clark.

Playwright Lauren Yee calls her play Hookman an “existential slasher comedy.” And Steep Theatre’s new production takes her up on that with creative staging, solid performances, especially by the three female leads—and plenty of blood. Hookman is smartly directed by Vanessa Stalling

Surprise surprise! Bette Midler won for Hello Dolly. Will such wonders ever cease?

Ex-Governor, Deval Patrick, will host the first, 'Food For Thought', speaker series at Hancock Shaker Village on Friday, May 12th. He will talk over dinner about his autobiography, A Reason To Believe.

Trade Secrets, a rare plant and garden antique show and sale takes place this weekend, May 13th and 14th at lion Rock Farm in Sharon, Ct. The event benefits Women's Support Services.

Happy Days is here again, if not in the Democratic party, perhaps alive and well in Brooklyn. Dianne Wiest plays Samuel Beckett's iconic role with a marvel of tonal and emotional variety. The Theatre for a New Audience Production is mesmerizing.

As the final opera in its 40th anniversary season, the BLO ended on an exuberant note. The Mozart classic was transposed from the 18th century Vienna suburbs to a villa in 1950s Italy, allowing a range of chic retro fashions to take stage center. But the young singers, all in fine voice, did not let the costumes upstage them. This might not have been a profound "Figaro," but it was fun, which might be just what Mozart and da Ponte wanted.