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  • Roger Daltrey Brings Tommy to Tanglewood

    See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 16th, 2018

    After nearly a half century lapse Tanglewood has doubled down on the vintage British rock group The Who. Last summer we heard Pete Townshend leading Quadrophenia with the Pops. Last night lead singer Roger Daltrey performed the entire 75-minute Tommy as well as three encores minus the orchestra.

  • David Crosby Headlines at Tanglewood

    Mary Chapin Carpenter, Chris Hillman and Herb Peterson Also on Bill

    By: Maria Reveley - Jun 18th, 2018

    It was a long but satisfying evening at Tanglewood. Chris Hillman, a founder of The Byrds, and Herb Peterson, one of The Dillards went on at 7 PM. They were followed by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Then David Crosby brought it on home at 10:30 PM. The hits just kept on coming.

  • Judy Collins and Stephen Stills Share Memories

    Lost Love Rekindled at Tanglewood

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 18th, 2018

    Fifty years ago Stephen Stills and Judy Collins met and had a relationship that lasted for two years. That breakup resulted in "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" the hit of the debut album of Crosby Stills and Nash. Not long ago they were booked for an AARP event. That chance encounter resulted in a tour that touched down at Tanglewood. On September 22 they will release a studio album "For What It's Earth" titled for a Leonard Cohen song.

  • Mr. Parker Plays South Florida

    World Premiere By Prolific Playwright Michael McKeever

    By: By Aaron Krause - Jun 18th, 2018

    Mr. Parker is a touching comedy-drama by versatile theater artist Michael McKeever. The piece, a three-hander, is receiving an impressive world premiere at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. A trio of actors sparkle in an all-around strong production.

  • Art in South Florida

    Tony Award Winning Comedy by Yasmina Reza

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 16th, 2018

    New City Players is offering an explosive, comic production of Yasmina Reza's provocative Art. This comedy focuses on how perception can impact relationships. Actors excel in roles that require seamless shifts between subtlety and big acting choices.

  • Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival, 2018

    On Bowe Field in Adams, MA

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Jun 19th, 2018

    There is a story to tell and an enchanted slide show to see! The third annual Berkshire Mountains Fearie Festival happened on June 16 in Adams, Massachusetts. Faeries and elves of many realms appeared all day long. Activities, entertainment and festival goods were offered to nearly 1500 celebrants.

  • Church & State By Jason Odell Williams

    Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen to Good People

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 19th, 2018

    There has been yet another school slaughter just days before a close election for the incumbent Senator from North Carolina. He attends a funeral for kids who were classmates of his children. A blog reporter asks if he turned to God and prayer in a time of grief. An honest unfiltered answer threatens to sabotage his campaign. This leads to suprising and provocative results. The brief one act play is followed by a talkback after each performance.

  • Die Nase at Komische Oper, Berlin

    The Nose, a Surreal Opera, Delights

    By: Angelika Jansen - Jun 21st, 2018

    This final opening of the 2017/18 season at the Komische Oper, Die Nase/The Nose, in Berlin is a typical Barrie Kosky production - eccentric, colorful, and totally entertaining in its over-the-top action on stage. It will be performed in June and July.

  • American Weather at HERE

    Chris Green Makes His Way through Climate Change

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 24th, 2018

    American Weather takes the emotional temperature of Americans today. Chris Green, who created this moving and multi-dimensional theatrical piece, speaks of our country losing its narrative. Rather than proposing a new narrative, he suggests a new posture, one of gropipng acceptance, where we come to terms with the shape of our present in order to better prepare for the future.

  • Harry Connick, Jr. at Tanglewood

    Laissez les bons temps rouler!

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 24th, 2018

    Harry Connick, Jr. was the real deal at Tanglewood. Backed by a fabulous eleven piece band over two and a half hours of non stop fun he explored a wide range of musical genres with a distinctly New Orleans flavored patois.

  • Debra Jo Rupp Takes the Cake

    Timely Comic Drama by Bekah Brunstetter

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 25th, 2018

    The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter is a ripped from the headlines topical drama at Barrington Stage. While addressing vendors refusing to provide services for gay marriages it does so with a comedic touch. As Della, the conflicted specialty baker, the brilliant Debra Jo Rupp has never been more hilarious.

  • The Finger Lakes, Gateway To American Wines

    Riesling Rules

    By: Philip S. Kampe - Jun 26th, 2018

    Only hours away from millions of people, the Finger Lakes, located in central New York state, is home to a large wine making population. With over one hundred twenty vineyards, located on or near one of the eleven lakes, the Finger Lakes 'cold climate' wine culture thrives year round, focusing on the Riesling varietal.

  • Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art

    Making the city of Boston An Art City

    By: Mark Favermann - Jun 27th, 2018

    Now+There is the lineal descendant of the Urban Arts Institute. Its mission has expanded to reinforce social justice and environmental concerns with community-involved public art projects. Led by the creative and energetic Kate Gilbert, it works on a variety projects throughout the City of Boston.

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night

    O'Neill at Stratford Shakespeare Festival

    By: Herbert Simpson - Jun 29th, 2018

    I’m not sure that Canadian audiences share the idolatry that Americans have for O’Neill. Several Canadian critics gave this performance muted approval and a suggestion that O’Neill is a trifle unconvincing and overdone in this play’s insistent hopelessness.

  • Tempest at San Diego's Old Gold Theater

    Summer Shakespeare Festival

    By: Jack Lyons - Jun 30th, 2018

    The Old Globe’s prescient Erna Finci Artiti Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, himself a Shakespeare scholar, understands how the hidden magic in Shakespeare’s plays can still inspire and entertain. His tapping of Irish director Joe Dowling to helm the technically challenging Old Globe production of “The Tempest,” is both a stroke of genius and of timing. Dowling ran the famous Guthrie Theatre of Minneapolis for 20 years. Kate Burton leads as Prospera.

  • Two Mile Hollow's Rolling World Premiere

    At Potrero Stage in San Francisco

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 30th, 2018

    The producing theater company Ferocious Lotus and playwright Leah Nanako Winkler are on the same wavelength in promoting Asian inclusion in theater. Although the narrative of Two Mile Hollow is about a white family, the pivotal character is Asian played by an Asian, and actors with Asian or Pacific Islanders blood play all of the white roles as well. So add one more brick to the building of ethnic inclusion in the arts.

  • The Closet By Douglas Carter Beane

    PC Gay Themed Satire at Williamstown Theatre Festival

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 01st, 2018

    PC or not to be was the question in a world premiere comedy The Closet by Douglas Carter Beane at Williamstrown Theatre Festival. It stars Broadway's Matthew Broderick in his first WTF appearance. He is backed by renowned WTF veterans Jessica Hecht and Brooks Ashmanskas. There was also a breakout performance by Ann Harada.

  • World Premiere of Tilikum by Kristiana Rae Colón

    Whale of a Tale at Sideshow Theatre Company

    By: Nancy Bishop - Jul 02nd, 2018

    “Tilikum, the infamous SeaWorld killer whale, has died.” That was the headline in the Orlando Sentinel on January 6, 2017. Sideshow Theatre’s world premiere production of Tilikum takes the story of that sea creature and creates a poetic, percussive fantasy that demands that we pay attention to a range of social justice issues.

  • The Big D in South Florida

    World Premiere of Comic-Drama near Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Jul 03rd, 2018

    The Big D has a dual personality as a play, with some of the material risque and lively, while other moments are tender and tragic. Michael Mizerany's new work is having its world premiere at Wilton Manor's Abyss Theater. Prolific theater artist Ronnie Larsen is directing the play, featuring some strong acting.

  • Objects of Desire at Eclipse Mill Gallery

    Larry Alice and Joan Kiley Paired In Evocative Exhibition

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 03rd, 2018

    The special exhibition Objects of Desire pairs whimsical narrative paintings by Joan Kiley with relief sculpture and polychromed assemblages by Larry Alice. There is a confluence and empathy of fantasy and the surreal in work that will be on view in the Eclipse Mill, 243 Union Street, from Friday, June 29 through Sunday, July 29. A receptiom will be held on Friday, July 6.

  • Coming Back Like a Song at Berkshire Theatre Group

    World Premiere of Juke Box Musical

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 04th, 2018

    It's Christmas Eve at the NY apartment of Irving Berlin. He is joined by fellow masters of the Great American Songbook Jimmy Van Heusen and Harold Arlen. With just a piano we get 35 of their songs in Berkshire Theatre Group''s world premiere of Coming Back Like a Song by Lee Kalcheim,

  • The Bennington Mural Project

    Union Street Mural Unveiled

    By: Chris Buchanan - Jul 03rd, 2018

    In downtown Bennington, a new mural lets local artists shine and brings the community together.

  • End of The Royal Family of Broadway

    NY Times Review Spikes Barrington Stage Production

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 06th, 2018

    The Barrington Stage world premiere of the musical Royal Family of Broadway has earned mostly positive reviews. It has been treated as a work in progress potentially bound for Broadway. The team assembled for this production have been there before. Because of a devastating review by Jesse Green in the New York Times that may not happen. While Green is an established, and well qualified critic, is it the role of the Times to nip in the bud regional productions being developed for a run in New York?

  • Van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic

    A Beethoven Prelude to Action

    By: Paul J. Pelkonen - Jul 05th, 2018

    With all the secrecy that surrounds the arrival of a new music director for America's oldest orchestra, one must rely on live performances and recorded documentation to assess such a relationship. Happily, such documentation arrived earlier this year in the form of a DeccaGold recording of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, made by the New York Philharmonic under the aegis of its new boss, Jaap van Zweden.

  • Hair at Berkshire Theatre Group

    Celebrating 50th Anniversary

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 08th, 2018

    If you plan to see Hair at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, as well you should, a few tokes of medical marijuana will help to set the mood. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. On opening night we spotted a granny with a crown of woven daisys.

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