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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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, 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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

The T?N orchestra will perform an adventuresome program twice in New York, this week and next.  They will feature the works of William Grant Still, Carlos Chávez, Witold Lutoslaski and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.  

Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music over three days throughout the museum’s expansive campus. Phil Kline will be featured.  With Jim Jarmsuch he will be improvising on loud guitar,

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.