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  • Breathing Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo

    Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 04th, 2026

    As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.

  • Chesterwood Summer Program

    Historic Home and Estate in Stockbrdge

    By: Chesterwood - Jun 03rd, 2026

    This season’s performing arts series showcases programs in music, dance, literature, poetry, and theater, with highlights including Boston Baroque’s The X-Tet, Reson8 Vocal Octet, Great Barrington Public Theater, the New England Poetry Club, a panel discussion on patriotism with former Governor Deval Patrick, former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin Baron, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, and historian Kendra Field

  • Yo Yo Ma at Tanglwood

    We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future

    By: BSO - Jun 03rd, 2026

    Yo-Yo Ma joins Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and special guests in We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future, a weeklong residency curated by Ma. This series of concerts, conversations, and gatherings (Aug. 1–9) offers a window into Ma’s perspective on the American experiment, inviting us to celebrate community and common purpose, consider our relationship to one another and to the land we share, and imagine a hopeful future.

  • Light Switch

    Strong Professional Production of Dave Osmundsen's Complex, Touching, and Funny Play

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 05th, 2026

    Through June 14, Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale, presents an engaging professional production of Dave Osmundsen's play, "Light Switch." The nonlinear play chronicles 20 years in the life of Henry Sullivan, a gay autistic Ph.D. student seeking connection in the modern dating world. Acclaimed director Michael Leeds directs a talented quintet of actors.

  • From the Novel Call It In the Air

    The Blemish

    By: Gregory Light - Jun 03rd, 2026

    Sarah's 1936 penny had not aged a day during the intervening quarter-century since she had purchased it. She had not let it. The meaning it held for her was still as clear as it had been on August the twenty-sixth, the day she bought it, brand spanking new, a souvenir of her eleventh wedding anniversary which fell on that day

  • Death of a Salesman on Broadway

    Underwhelming

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 04th, 2026

    Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in Death of a Salesman sounds like ideal casting; and Lane is giving a fine performance. But this production under the direction of Joe Mantello Arthur left me unmoved.

  • Driving Miss Daisy Is a Blast in Pittsfield

    Debra Jo Rupp Sizzles in Iconic Role

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 01st, 2026

    Debra Jo Rupp is regarded as a cherished treasure of Berkshire Theatre. She is truly magnificent in the Barrington Stage Company production directed with precise authority by Julianne Boyd. There is a superb supporting cast of Ray Anthony Thomas as her chauffeur Hoke and Matthew W. Koreinko as her businessman son, Boolie Wertham. In the intimate St. Germain Stage we are close enough to observe every twist and turn of richly nuanced performances,

  • Doubt

    Opera Parallele's Engaging Opera Set to Engrossing Drama

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 02nd, 2026

    School Principal Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of having intoxicated and abused a student. Despite the absence of meaningful evidence, she pursues her quarry relentlessly.

  • The Alchemical Ash

    Part One of Three

    By: Cheng Tong - Jun 02nd, 2026

    The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on the Heavenly Horse Water Form. When he finally tracked the old teacher to a drafty shack in the northern hills, he carried the text in a silk-lined case like a holy relic. He wanted to debate the translation of the third stanza. He wanted definitions.

  • Who is Eartha Mae

    One Woman Show Portrays Eartha Kitt

    By: Jay Handelman - Jun 02nd, 2026

    Jade Wheeler may not look a lot like actor and singer Eartha Kitt but she sure makes you believe the distinctive entertainer is on stage at Urbanite Theatre in her one-woman show “Who is Eartha Mae?”

  • The Barber of Seville at San Francisco Opera

    Rossini's Cherished Comic Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - May 31st, 2026

    Rosina's guardian, Doctor Bartolo, intends to marry her forthwith, but Count Almaviva also longs to wed her. With the assistance of jack-of-all-trades Figaro, Almaviva uses disguises and subterfuge to undermine Bartolo. Comedy and memorable music prevail throughout.

  • Florida Arts Funding

    Fewer Non Profits Get Support

    By: Jay Handelman - Jun 01st, 2026

    The budget provides $20 million in programming support, less than half of the $51 million recommended by the Florida Council on Arts and Culture to fully fund grants for 563 non-profit organizations.

  • 'night Mother

    1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner Still Captivates

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 01st, 2026

    Matter-of-factly, Jessie announces to her mother Thelma that she will take her own life at the end of the evening. Thelma tries to erect whatever barriers she can, but Jessie's calm determination is hard to counter. Global issues such as religion, legality, and social matters arise.

  • Stephen Hannock’s Phosphorescent Paintings

    Then and Now Spanning Four Decades

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 30th, 2026

    As a youngster in the 1970s, he’s now 75, Stephen Hannock boldly experimented with glow in the dark phosphorescent paint. Last night, during a private viewing at Porches, he told me that, back in the day, he had shown the work at night on Boston’s Esplanade, as well as at Williams College Art Museum.

  • American Players Theatre

    2026 Tony Award’s Regional Theater Tony

    By: Anne Siegel - May 29th, 2026

    On June 7, American Players Theatre administrators will accept the 2026 Tony Award’s Regional Theater Tony, which comes with an official, gleaming statuette and a $25,000 prize. According to APT’s communications director, the company is “over the moon” about this recognition.

  • The Lunchbox

    World Premiere Musical About Meal Delivery in Bombay

    By: Victor Cordell - May 29th, 2026

    In a rare miscue, the dabbawallah system delivers the wrong lunches to two lonely people. The two begin to pass notes along with the containers that are also returned to the sender. A warm but anonymous relationship arises along with ensuing complications.

  • Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Music Mondays

    Summer Concert Series

    By: BBG - May 27th, 2026

    Find the perfect spot to picnic amidst the Garden’s beauty while enjoying performances from some of our region’s most talented performers. Bring a blanket, sip something cool and let the sweet sounds of some of the region’s most talented musical performers set the tone for a perfect summer evening.

  • Tosca

    Puccini's Immortal Opera of Love, Betrayal, and Death

    By: Victor Cordell - May 26th, 2026

    Having hidden a political prisoner, Cavaradossi is hounded by police chief Scarpia, who lusts after Tosca and agrees to free Cavaradossi if he can have his way with Tosca.

  • Call It in the Air

    Chapter Two Birthday Presents; Ottawa, Canada, 1962

    By: Gregory Light - May 27th, 2026

    On that day, back in 1962, Joey was given two gifts that stood out from the "stacks" of others he'd received. (He liked to tell his friends that he got "stacks of presents".)

  • Purpose at La Jolla Playhouse

    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pulitzer Prize and Tony Play

    By: Sharon Eubanks - May 27th, 2026

    The La Jolla Playhouse presentation of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award?winning play Purpose delivers a searing portrait of a prominent Black family in Chicago. 

  • Summer Theatre Returns to Mount Holyoke College

    After a 25 Year Hiatus

    By: Mount Holyoke - May 27th, 2026

    After a hiatus of 25 years, the curtain is rising once again on an ambitious and exhilarating new chapter of summer theatre at Mount Holyoke College.

  • anthropology

    Lauren Gunderson's Foray into Artificial Intelligence

    By: Victor Cordell - May 25th, 2026

    When her younger sister is abducted and assumed murdered, Merril uses artificial intelligence to create a video replicant of Angie in order to keep her spirit alive. The quick learning AI Angie thinks that the police investigation was inadequate and suggests reopening the case. The process also brings Merril in touch with her estranged mother and her ex.

  • John & Jen a Musical

    Two Hander at Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 24th, 2026

    Set in the intimate Unicorn Theatre John & Jen a Musical is remarkable and compelling. As all of the dialogue is sung it may be argued this is more a mini opera than a conventional musical. The arc spans three decades with the tragedy of Vietnam as its fulcrum.

  • Alvin Ouellet Shows at Images Cinema in Williamstown

    Resemblances Recent Portrait Paintings

    By: Images - May 25th, 2026

    This exhibit at Images Cinema in Williamstown, features figurative paintings completed by Alvin Ouellet in weekly model sessions at Figure of the River at The Muse in Housatonic MA over the past year.

  • The House of Bernarda Alba

    Garcia Lorca's 1936 Spanish Play Resonates Here and Now

    By: Victor Cordell - May 25th, 2026

    Bernarda Alba's husband has died. The traditionalist widow holds to conservative practices and vows that her five adult daughters will mourn with her for eight years. The play is a powerful metaphor for fascism and paternalism, both of which the playwright rejects.

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