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London's Serpentine Gallery
Plethora of Programming
By: - May 16th, 2024Launching a season of specially curated activations, the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion will play host to a new commissioned soundscape, a library and a series of performances and talks.
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ATCA Announces Awards
Steinberg New Play Award and Osborn Award
By: - May 14th, 2024Playwright Lloyd Suh won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for his piece, "The Heart Sellers." Jennifer Vosters received the 2024 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for her play, "Songs Without Words." ATCA presents the honors annually.
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Barrington Stage Set for Summer
Kicks Off with La Cage aux Folles
By: - May 14th, 2024With a book by Harvey Fierstein (Broadway: Kinky Boots, Torch Song Trilogy) and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Broadway: Hello, Dolly!, Mame), La Cage aux Folles is based on the play by Jean Poirot that also inspired the 1978 French film of the same name and its American remake, The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
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The Duality of Breath Yin and Yang
Cultivating Inner Power
By: - May 13th, 2024The core concept in Daoist understanding of the breath is Qi (pronounced “chee”). Qi is not simply oxygen, but a subtle energy force believed to permeate all living things and the universe itself. It is the dynamic interplay of Yin and Yang, the fundamental polarities that govern existence. Deep, mindful breathing is seen as a way to cultivate and refine Qi, leading to improved health, inner peace, and a deeper connection to the Dao.
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Opera Lafayette’s Les Fetes de Thalie
At Museo del Barrio
By: - May 14th, 2024Under the baton of Christophe Rousset, Opera Lafayette’s production of the charmingly absurd Thalie was a triumph of artistry and innovation. With its contemporary flair, vibrant choreography, stellar performers, and infectious energy, the evening proved a delightful theatrical experience.
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Hyde Museum in Glens Falls
A Hidden Gem of Old Masters
By: - May 13th, 2024Tucked away in Glens Falls, New York is the small but magnificent Hyde Museum. In a rural industrial setting it is astonishing to encounter a collection of Old Masters and modern works that run the gamut from Rembrandt to Picasso and beyond.
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Berkshire Music School Gala at Ventfort Hall
Flutist Brandon Patrick George To Perform
By: - May 13th, 2024On June 1, 2024 the Berkshire Music School, in partnership with Ventfort Hall, welcomes Brandon Patrick George, flute, for Berkshire Music School's Annual Gala to raise funds for BMS’ Community Engagement programs, including pay-what-you-wish group classes, need-based private lesson scholarships, and outreach assemblies and workshops in public schools.
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North Adams Poet Sarah Sutro
Natural Wonders Her Second Book of Poetry
By: - May 13th, 2024The poems in this book point out split second changes, interactions within the environment, and capture the upfront miniscule moment and the constancy of rhythms, arcs and gifts from nature.
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Provincetown Berta Walker Gallery
35th Season
By: - May 13th, 2024A large show featuring “The Anchors of the Berta Walker Gallery” will celebrate the artists who keep the gallery thriving: Director Grace Hopkins, Gallery Assistant Laura Shabott and Gallery Assistant/Installer Bert Yarborough. Accompanying this show will be a group show of art by former staff, including Sky Power and Erna Partoll (both of whom worked at the gallery for ten years), as well as photos of individuals, friends, and family who have made the Gallery’s existence possible (a visual “introduction of gratitude,” if you will, in our book of visuals.)
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Peter Pan
Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center
By: - May 10th, 2024A new, inclusive touring production of "Peter Pan" that does away with stereotypes of Native Americans and women is decked in Miami. History-making Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and director Lonny Price's new version retains the show's charm, energy, and enchanting quality.
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Marjorie Minkin Recalls Clement Greenberg and Kenworth Moffett
Mentoring of an Emerging Artist
By: - May 08th, 2024I first met Clement Greenberg after Ken (Moffett) invited me to go to Toronto in the summer of 1981 where he and Greenberg were on a panel discussion at the Toronto Art Fair. I accompanied Greenberg and Moffett on their visit to at least 20 artists’ studios in Toronto. It was the best art education of my life!
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A New Slant on Thoreau
Huff and Puff at deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
By: - May 08th, 2024This provocative installation at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”
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Madame Butterfly at Opera Philadelphia
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By: - May 01st, 2024Opera Philadelphia is bringing us Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini with a twist one imagines the composer would have liked. The title role of Cio-Cio-San is a two-hander, performed both by soprano Karen Chia-Ling Ho and a puppet created by Hua Hua Zhang. In Anthony Minghella’s production, the puppet is Cio-Cio-San’s son. Now she is the exterior, public version of Butterfly, the one Lieutenant Pinkerton falls for and seduces and abandons. The director Ethan Heard and designer Yuki Izumihara came up with this notion.
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American Soldier Comes to PAC in New York
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Unite in Splendid Opera
By: - May 09th, 2024Huang Ruo’s opera, An American Soldier, opens May 12 at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. This flexible theater is built for chamber opera, often the form new operas take.
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Pollock's Masterpiece Lavender Mist
How It Got Away From the MFA
By: - May 05th, 2024For under a million dollars, MFA curator Kenworth Moffett, presented Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist to the acquisitions committee. In an epic pratfall the trustees under orders from the new director, Merrill Rueppel, turned it down. In a matter of weeks it was acquired by the National Gallery. The MFA later acquired two works by the abstract expressionist artist. Several years ago a Pollock, now owned by the Norton Museum, sold for $200 million.
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Miro Quartet Performs at The Crypt
Death of Classical Presents Home
By: - May 07th, 2024The Miro Quartet performed works centered around the theme of “Home” for the Death of Classical series in New York. In the crypt of a church in Harlem, reverberating in the acoustics of its stone arches, the Quartet sang. This program felt like a homecoming, immediate and warm.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
At Goodspeed
By: - May 06th, 2024Goodspeed has turned into The Music Hall Royale, circa 1895, for a thoroughly enjoyable production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. All that is needed is some good British ale.
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John Clarke on view at Sohn Fine Art
Berkshire Artist Shows in Lenox Gallery
By: - May 07th, 2024Solo exhibition of mixed-media by Berkshire-based artist John Clarke on view at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox, MA through the end of July.
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Something Rotten
Hillbarn Theatre's Riotous Romp
By: - Apr 28th, 2024In the 1590s, wannabe playwrights Nick and Nigel Bottom fail to compete with theatrical powerhouse Will Shakespeare. Nick consults with soothsayer Nostradamus who tells him that musicals are the coming thing. The outcome is the world's first musical "Omelet." Hmmm.
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Lost in Translation: Heidi Schreck's Uncle Vanya
Lacks Emotional Punch at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater
By: - Apr 30th, 2024Whereas Chekhov's 1897 masterpiece balanced humor and pathos, this modernized rendition prioritizes laughs over hard-hitting emotion. Schreck’s interpretation charms audiences with its humor....up to a point. Her Vanya, the titular ‘hero,’ may be amusing, but he lacks heroic dimension.
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Family Tree
Word Premiere co-production in South Florida
By: - Apr 29th, 2024Ronnie Larsen Presents and Plays of Wilton presents the world premiere production of "Family Tree" by Erin K. Considine. "Family Tree" is a moving and funny play with layers.
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Judy Kensley McKie Carving the Surface
At Gallery Naga
By: - Apr 27th, 2024Judy Kensley McKie Carving the Surface is the latest exhibition at Gallery NAGA. In the span of four decades she has been been among the most renowned artists of her generation.
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Andrew Stevovich at Clark Gallery
Whimsical Figuration
By: - Apr 30th, 2024Whimsical figurative artist Andrew Stevovich is exhibiting at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass.
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All My Sons by Arthur Miller
At Hartford Stage
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Marsha Mason, who stars in this production, feels All My Sons, an early play by Miller, one of his best. I agree. And this production proves it.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo to Head Opera Philadelphia
Cutting Edge Company Makes the Best Choice
By: - Apr 25th, 2024The Opera Philadelphia Board of Directors has unanimously approved the appointment of Anthony Roth Costanzo as General Director and President effective June 1, 2024. A grammy-winning countertenor and creative producer who ”exists to transform opera” Costanzo will shape the future of a company known as “a hotbed of operatic innovation”, overseeing fundraising and business strategies, audience development, community initiatives, and artistic planning.
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