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  • Fefu And Her Friends

    produced by American Conservatory Theater

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 08th, 2022

    In 1977, María Irene Fornés’ innovative “Fefu and Her Friends” replicated the notion of an all-female cast but flips the script on all of those dimensions.  It concerns a reunion of a group of friends gathered to rehearse a presentation to be given to a charity; themes are varied, including women’s relationships with women, which was pretty daring at the time; the single setting is Fefu’s house; action takes place in one day; and the characters, if a little wacky, are grounded in realism. 

  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History

    Review by Martin Mugar

    By: Martin Mugar - Apr 09th, 2022

    Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.

  • Gong Lum's Legacy at New Federal Theatre

    Elizabeth Van Dyke Directs World Premiere by Charles L. White

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Apr 11th, 2022

    Gong Lum's Legacy is presented by Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company. Written by Charles L. White. Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The world is still Jim Crow's.  We can peek into  to the the lives of those oppressed by the system, both the African Americans and the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.  

  • Broadway Across America

    2022-23 Season for Miami and Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 14th, 2022

    Broadway Across America has announced the 2022-23 line-ups for Broadway in Miami and Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale. Among the shows, audiences will be able to see "Hamilton" again in Ft. Lauderdale, and "Wicked" in Miami. Perhaps the hottest show on Broadway, "Six" will play in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.

  • Boston's Lyric Stage

    Program for 2022/23 Season

    By: Lyric - Apr 15th, 2022

    Unforgettable moments, laughter, discovery, and joy, he Lyric Stage 2022/23 Season is a season to share.

  • Next to Normal

    Opens Season at Westport Country Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 18th, 2022

    Next to Normal which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama is opening the season at Westport Country Playhouse through Sunday, April 24. The musical by Tom Kitts (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) tells the story of an American family facing a serious mental health issue.

  • IATI Theater Presents Bloom

    By Marco Antonio Rodriguez

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Apr 19th, 2022

    The story is placed in “the not so distant future”, a dystopian exposition of the legal persecution of people with non-binary sexual and gender orientation. Julia is completely rejecting of her son's sexual reality. Roan has been taken away by the authorities, imprisoned and tortured. We learn that neighbors, family members and 'friends' have been responsible for turning him in. It is only a matter of hours before he will be picked up and returned to prison.

  • Jazz in the Berkshires

    The Joint is Jumpin'

    By: Ed Bride - Apr 21st, 2022

    The jazz scene is alive and well in the Berkshires, as the Berkshire Eagle points out in this deep-dive by Bob Luhmann. Some history and a good look at the current scene combine to provide context for the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, April 23-May 1

  • Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program

    Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience

    By: Clark - Apr 22nd, 2022

    The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) presents an MCLA Artist Lab Roundtable on Blackness as a Multifaceted Experience and Giving Artists an Opportunity to Interpret the World on Their Own Terms on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 pm.

  • DigBoston Suspends Print Edition

    Plans to Publish On LIne

    By: Dig - Apr 22nd, 2022

    Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have to shut down the print edition of this publication for the second time since March 2020 effective immediately. For those of you that follow the American news industry—its local print markets in particular—this should come as no surprise.

  • Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition

    Williams Features New Acquisitions

    By: WCMA - Apr 22nd, 2022

    The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is pleased to present the next iteration of Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition. This ongoing exhibition reinterprets the museum’s encyclopedic collection through thematic groupings, highlighting new research, new acquisitions, and new curatorial voices.

  • Artist Hermann Nitsch at 83

    A Vienna Actionist

    By: Charles Giuliano - Apr 25th, 2022

    The Vienna Actionist, Hermann Nitsch, died at 83 on 18 April, 2022. Then in his 20s during the 1960s he and colleagues Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler performed actions entailing animal and human body parts and functions. They went for the jugular of conservative/ reactionary, post war Austrian culture. The authorities were not enlightened or amused. Their outrageous stunts were punished by prison sentences from a few months to seven years in the case of Muehl. During the late 1980s I spent a day with Nitsch at his rural schloss and studios.

  • Star of Freedom

    World Premiere Musical at Ivoryton Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 26th, 2022

    Star of Freedom has music by Connecticut resident Jeff Blaney and a book by Lawrence Thelen. The piece began life as the concept album Exodus; Executive/Artistic Director Jacqueline Hubbard saw the possibilities and brought it to Thelen to write the book.

  • Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

    Swings Into Second Weekend

    By: Ed Bride - Apr 27th, 2022

    The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival is now in full swing (sorry), ushered-in last weekend with the very successful Jam Session at Mission Restaurant. Ten different musicians rotated among the various positions “in the window” at the popular North Street restaurant.

  • BSO's Andris Nelsons to Munich Philharmonic

    New Orchestra Replaces BSO

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 29th, 2022

    The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will take over two more concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg on May 20 and 21. The orchestra is filling in for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which had to cancel its entire European tour for this spring due to a major corona outbreak among the musicians*. The Munich Philharmonic is looking forward to these two concerts with Andris Nelson.

  • All’s Well That End Well

    At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 02nd, 2022

    All’s Well That End Well is based on a tale from Boccaccio’s The Decameron. (It was tale  9 of day 3: the story of Giletta di Narbona.) Like a few other Shakespeare plays, All’s Well is considered a problem play, suggesting that it involves complex ethical issues that can’t be dealt with by simple solutions. Most scholars believe that Thomas Middleton, a noted playwright of his time, either collaborated with Shakespeare on the play or revised it later.

  • Two Synge One Acts at Irish Rep

    Charlotte Moore Captures the Playwright's Spirit

    By: Susan Hall - May 02nd, 2022

    Charlotte Moore must have the same feeling for the Irish and their language that the playwright John Milington Synge did. In the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theater, a small venue located underneath the main house at the Irish Repertory Theatre, the people of Ireland are brought startlingly, truly to life. Two Synge One Acts abut each other.  As audience in this theater, you are so close that you feel a part of the action, the language invades and elevates you.  It is a thrilling experience.

  • Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta

    At A Red Orchid Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 04th, 2022

    Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere. 

  • Figuration Reconsidered

    Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World

    By: Martin Mugar - May 05th, 2022

    The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.

  • Nicole Chesney: Albedo

    On View at Gallery NAGA

    By: NAGA - May 05th, 2022

    Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body. 

  • Sergei Isupov: Past and Present

    Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams

    By: Ferrin - May 05th, 2022

    Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by  internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive

    May On LIne Exhibition

    By: Perri Neri - May 09th, 2022

    Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.  

  • The Belle of Amherst

    This Time in Front of a Live Audience.

    By: Aaron Krause - May 09th, 2022

    Palm Beach Dramaworks, which co-produced 'The Belle of Amherst' last year, will remount the production in front of a live audience. Last year, the pandemic prevented audience members and performers from being in the same space. The remount will run from May 20-June 5.

  • Come to the Berkshires This Summer!

    New Amtrak Trains

    By: Amtrak - May 08th, 2022

    Amtrak just launched a new seasonal service that will make it easier to enjoy the quaint towns and majestic views of Massachusetts' Berkshires. The new route, called the Berkshire Flyer, will shuttle passengers between New York City and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, beginning July 8 and operate on weekends throughout the summer.

  • Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage Company

    10th Anniversary of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center

    By: Barrington - May 10th, 2022

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), celebrates the 10th Anniversary and Re-Opening of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with Broadway’s Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, Hamilton, Carousel) in an Encore Concert, Joshua Henry Up Close, on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m.