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Williams '62 Center Season
Performances Open to the Public
By: - Sep 15th, 2023The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance unveiled its nineteenth season of extraordinary theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond.
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Ellen Shattuck Pierce Taking Place
Boston's Hall Space
By: - Sep 15th, 2023Hall Space presents Ellen Shattuck PIerce "Taking Place." It's a lively exhibition of relief and hand colored laser prints.
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Crowns
An Uplifting Celebration of African-American Women and Hats They Wear To Church
By: - Sep 14th, 2023Hats are an integral part of the African-American woman's church attendance. Playwright Regina Taylor celebrates not only hats but the women that wear them - their fortitude, their triumphs, and their tragedies. Animated vignettes and a gospel dominated song book provide for a rousing entertainment.
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Five Guys Named Moe
MNM Theatre Company in South Florida
By: - Sep 12th, 2023MNM Theatre Company in West Palm Beach is presenting a vibrant production of the acclaimed musical revue, "Five Guys Named Moe." The production runs through Sept. 24 at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. In the show, through music, the titular characters hope to change the life of a drunken man whose wife has left him.
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Romeo and Juliet - Gounod's Opera
Fine Voices and Acting of Young Opera San Jose Cast Carry Opera
By: - Sep 11th, 2023"Romeo and Juliet" reigns as the touchstone of love stories centuries after its creation. But the play offers depth of meaning and cautions in many other social realms which contribute to its greatness. Adapted in many genres, Gounod's opera remains perhaps the most compelling and enduring realization. Its lush music and tight adherence to the Bard's work yield a timeless masterpiece.
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Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical
Dominique Morisseau's Second Musical About Black Song In The Late 20th Century at San Francisco's ACT
By: - Sep 08th, 2023After her Broadway success with "Ain't Too Proud," which also premiered in the Bay Area, Morisseau pays homage to "Soul Train," the syndicated TV show that became the Black community's "American Bandstand." The playwright also successfully integrates a warts-and-all biography of creator and longtime host, Don Cornelius.
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New Federal Theatre Opens Fall Season
Gala and Micki Grant Premiere Directed by Woodie King Jr.
By: - Sep 09th, 2023For over five decades, the New Federal Theatre has presented undiscovered talent like Denzel Washington, Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, S. Epatha Merkerson, Issa Rae, La Tanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Chadwick Boseman, and Morgan Freeman in their first stage appearances. They premiered For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide. Led. by Woodie King Jr. and now Elizabeth Van Dyke, the New Federal Theatre is a national treasure.
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Belonging and Stillness
By: - Sep 06th, 2023In the morning, we play qigong for about 90 minutes to circulate the qi we had gathered the previous evening throughout our entire body. The Heavenly Horse Qigong routine is designed to work various areas of the body, and to prepare the body for whatever the day has in store for us.
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WBCN Legend Charles Laquidara
Pairs With Matt Siegel for Benefit Event
By: - Sep 07th, 2023“An Afternoon with Charles Laquidara & Matt Siegel,” moderated by Joyce Kulhawik, is a fundraiser for the Paul “Tank” Sferruzza Scholarship Fund. The late Sferruzza was a sports director at WBCN and WZLX. The event is at City Winery Saturday, September 9.
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Adam Tendler and Cage at the Crypt
Andrew Ousley's Death Defying Death of Classical
By: - Sep 08th, 2023Leave it to the brilliant impresario Andrew Ousley and his music series, Death of Classical, to bring us an incredible and surprising evening of John Cage music. Before Cage moved on to the concepts of indeterminacy and chance, he composed more conventionally arced works for the prepared piano, in which screws were systematically and specifically applied to some strings in a grand piano, Cage clearly began in one place and ended up in another. Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano is a deliberate whole.
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Lenox Jazz Stroll
Schedule Updates
By: - Sep 05th, 2023The Mill Town Foundation has announced an updated schedule for the Lenox Jazz Stroll. The timeframe will be the same as always, on the third weekend in September, but the times and some of the details have changed.
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Pause at Eclipe Mill Gallery
Debi Pendel and Melanie Mowinski
By: - Sep 05th, 2023Melanie and I have wanted to collaborate for years, and finally decided to pause our other work to make it happen. Within the exhibit, we asked ourselves and now our viewers to pause time and consider something larger than our day-to-day selves and to ponder the deeper ideas of our existence.
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Tanz im August in Berlin
With 19 World-Wide Dance Companies
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023Tanz im Augus is the Berlin showcase for contemporary international dance. Organized, as usually, by the theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).
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Ballet Hispánico
Launches Tour in Connecticut
By: - Sep 05th, 2023Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latinx cultural organization and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces a 2023-24 Season tour stop at Garde Arts Center on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8pm.
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Jane Hudson Cuts the Deck
Tarot on the Go
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023In late 2019 I made a piece (later to become The Chariot) and a friend suggested that I pursue a series based on the Tarot. Up to that point I had not worked in series, allowing myself to explore developing imagery as it occurred to me. Of course when Covid hit, I was faced with isolation and focused studio time, so the project took shape then.
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Oppenheimer, the Film
No Answers for Creative Impulses of Great Scientists
By: - Sep 04th, 2023Oppenheimer, the film. Prepare your rotten tomatoes. The movie is loud, gray and one-dimensional.
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Two Friends: A Tragedy In Gloucester
Demise of the Fishing Fleet
By: - Aug 31st, 2023In a photo essay Steve Nelson documented the destruction and salvage of a torched fishing vessel "Two Friends." It's a poignant signifier of the demise of Gloucester's once vibrant fishing fleet and industry.
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Gerry Bergstein Dithering Machines
Gallery Naga
By: - Aug 31st, 2023September at Gallery Naga opens with a bang--prepare to be transported into the frenetic universe that is Gerry Bergstein’s brain.
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Compagnie Käfig at Jacob’s Pillow
Final Company in Residence, 2023 Season
By: - Aug 29th, 2023For PIXEL, by Compagnie Käfig, today based near Lyon, France, ten male Hip Hop dancers, French style, a woman contortionist, a roller-skater, small robots carrying tiny lights, and a huge metal hoop shared and interacted on stage with highly sophisticated projections, music, and sounds.
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Boca Stage Moves
Relocates to Larger Space
By: - Aug 30th, 2023The Delray Beach Playhouse is the new home for Boca Stage in Southeast Florida. Up until recently, Boca Stage mounted its productions in Boca Raton's intimate Sol Theatre. In its new space, Boca Stage will be able to seat more than 140 patrons, compared to 70 at the Sol.
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A Visit to Tippet Rise. Part II
A Special Staff for a Special Place
By: - Aug 27th, 2023Pete Hinmon and Lindsey Hinmon are Co-Directors of Tippet Rise Art Center. They are warm and deeply thoughtful, qualities you find in everyone at this working ranch. Qualities clearly treasured by the Halsteads, the couple creating this special art venue. The Halsteads have a knack for picking people.
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A New Brain a Smash at Barrington Stage
Revival of Bill Finn and James Lapine Musical
By: - Aug 25th, 2023Absorbing, insightful, fun and hilarious are dumbfounding but accurate terms to describe the William Finn and James Lapine musical A New Brain being revised at Barrington Stage Company. It's a musical about neurosurgery.
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Beauty and the Beast
A Big Show Presented Small
By: - Aug 26th, 2023The desire to produce shows that are well-known is understandable, but it is also important for theaters to focus on what they do best.
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Martha Graham Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow
The Oldest American Dance Group
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023The venerable and totally contemporary Martha Graham Dance Company was in residence from August 16 to August 20 at Jacob's Pillow. The dancers gave memorable and also frenzied performances.....
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Remembering Dennis Hollingsworth
About a Comment
By: - Aug 25th, 2023I have no idea what happened. I feel fortunate to have heard his opinions on the art world which were for the most part conservative in intent. He was commenting on Twitter on the ongoing struggle in Ukraine understanding the manipulation of the American Neo-Cons in perpetuating it. He had just started to take and interest in the notion of Monadology as it might apply to his work. Again, the irreducible
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