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  • Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)

    By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre

    By: v - May 19th, 2022

    I know.  Your first question will be “What’s with that name?”  Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play.  It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative. 

  • Large Works by Philip Malicoat

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum

    By: PAAM - May 20th, 2022

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.   

  • Puppetopia Festival at HERE

    Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents

    By: Susan Hall - May 21st, 2022

    The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama  Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year.  its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program.  Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022.  Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.

  • The Elliot Norton Awards

    Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association

    By: BTCA - May 23rd, 2022

    The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,

  • Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame

    Produced by West Bay Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - May 24th, 2022

    Despite the difficulty of casting Russian language opera, two are present in the American repertoire, “Eugene Onegin” and “Pique Dame” (“Queen of Spades” in English).  Although the former premiered 11 years earlier than the latter, they share the same DNA, including source material derived from Alexander Pushkin.

  • Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull

    At Chicago's Steppenwolf

    By: NAGA - May 25th, 2022

    Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.

  • installation by Azza El Siddique

    At MIT List Visual Arts Center

    By: List - May 25th, 2022

    This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.

  • Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum

    Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel

    By: PEM - May 26th, 2022

    “The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,

  • Faerie Festival Returns on June 18

    North Adams Event Honors Phil Sellers

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 27th, 2022

    Artist activist, Phil Sellers and his wife Gail were part of the team behind the Faerie Festival in North Adams. He passed away in July 2020. After a hiatus The Faerie Festival is revised in his honor on June 18 from 10 AM to 10 PM.

  • Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad

    MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.

    By: S&Co - May 27th, 2022

    Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.

  • Portland Museum of Art to Expand

    Launches Design Competition

    By: PMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, announced today the launch of an international design competition for its campus unification and expansion.

  • Williams College Museum of Art Expands

    SO-IL Architects Selected

    By: WCMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    SO-IL architects selected to design the first stand-alone building for the Williams College Museum of Art. New facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will transform the museum’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community and the Berkshires cultural region.

  • Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls on Broadway

    Poet's Language Dances

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 02nd, 2022

    Ntozake Shange began developing poems on the West Coast as a spoken word artist.  She speaks to girls who are maturing into women. Black girls, yes. Yet white girls understand her too.  What did words mean to Shange? Her sister Ifa Bayeza describes it best. They dance off the page with flourish and drama and beauty.

  • Jesus Christ Superstar

    50th Anniversary Rouring Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 02nd, 2022

    The Olivier Award-winning 50th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in Miami. The production originated at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. At the center of the production is a very human Jesus.

  • Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding

    TheaterWorks in Hartford

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 03rd, 2022

    Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding now playing at TheaterWorks in Hartford looks at what happens when the “perfect” part of the wedding doesn’t happen. Playwright Matthew López has combined humor (some farce, some slapstick) with an insightful understanding of our need for human connection and love.

  • Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theater

    Beanie Feldstein Disappoints

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 03rd, 2022

    Fanny Brice – the real-like comedian who is the title character – had that quality. Unfortunately, while Beanie Feldstein is talented and tries hard – she doesn’t.

  • Cats With Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber

    Produced by Troika Entertainment, at Golden Gate Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 03rd, 2022

    Who could predict that such a musical would set performance records for both the West End (21 years) and Broadway (a mere 18 years)?  But innovation doesn’t put butts in seats.  So, what propelled “Cats” to immortal fame?

  • Queen by Madhuri Shekar

    At Long Wharf

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 04th, 2022

    I wasn’t sure what to expect from this work by Madhuri Shekar and produced in partnership with the National Asian American Theater Company’s project. But I found it an engrossing, if not always totally motivated work.

  •  Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick

    Irish Repertory Theatre

    By: Edward Rubin - Jun 06th, 2022

    Belfast Girls, the Irish Rep’s current play by Jaki McCarrick is a sure-fire winner. Though all of the play’s action takes place on the transport ship Inchinnan in 1848 bound for Australia, the majority of the two act, 12-scene play with one intermission, takes place in a small, cramped, and windowless 5-bunk bed cabin in the ship’s steerage, and to a lesser degree on the ship’s deck where the girls can be seen contemplating their future.  

  • Basil Twist Alights in Versailles

    Les Arts Florissants Returns An Opera to its Origins

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 07th, 2022

    Jean-Joseph de Mondonville’s Titon et l'Aurore returns to Versaille. It is a pastorale heroique opera in three acts with a prologue. Inspired by Madame De Pompadour, it was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris in January 1753.

  • San Antonio’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy

    Tried to Deny Afro-Indigneous Senior, Kayla Price Graduation Ceremony

    By: Fossil Free Media - Jun 07th, 2022

    On Friday June 3rd, the Dean of Schools and Principal at San Antonio’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy tried to deny Afro-Indigneous senior, Kayla Price, from walking in her ceremony because of the eagle feather beaded onto her graduation cap. The Young Women’s Leadership Academy (YWLA), part of the San Antonio Independent School District, ranks in the top 20 high schools in the United States. Per their Non-discrimination Statement,

  • Todd McKie: Last but Not Least

    On View at Gallery NAGA

    By: NAGA - Jun 09th, 2022

    Last but Not Least is an exhibition of sixteen new paintings.  Created in the last nine months of Todd McKie’s life, the paintings are as fresh and witty as ever. 

  • Rodin in the United States Confronting the Modern

    Organized by the Clark Art Institute

    By: Clark - Jun 09th, 2022

    The Rodin exhibition explores changing perceptions of the sculptor’s work, beginning with the first acquisition made by an American institution—the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1893—and Rodin’s controversial debut at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition in the same year. The exhibition examines the collecting frenzy of the early twentieth century, promoted by noted philanthropist Katherine Seney Simpson, avant-garde performer Loïe Fuller, and collector Alma de Bretteville Spreckels

  • Hadestown Produced by Broadway SF

    Plays at the Orpheum Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 10th, 2022

    From this play’s outset, it is clear that “Hadestown” will have a distinctive style.  Although the musical’s auteur, Anaïs Mitchell, comes from the folk world, she developed a unique musical amalgam for the show with elements from blues, jazz, and pop in addition to folk.  Her orchestration is as unexpected as it is brilliant in providing a magnificent background sound. 

  • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

    Witty Summer Fun in Chicago

    By: Nancy Bishop - Jun 11th, 2022

    Blithe Spirit is personal for me; it was my first involvement in live theater, when I joined the Cortez, Colorado, community theater many decades ago. I worked on the set, sold tickets and made new friends who were interested in the arts in that oil-boom town. Later I directed (William Inge’s Picnic) and acted (in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and a western melodrama, Deadwood Dick, or the Game of Gold). As a child and teen in Chicago, I had often gone to the theater with my Aunt Belle and also attended theater as a student at UIC. But Blithe Spirit was the first time I experienced the stage. And I still can repeat many of the lines.

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