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  • Pioneering Photographer Bernice Abbott

    Clark Art Institute Presents Her Portraits of People and Places

    By: Clark - Jun 16th, 2025

    he Clark Art Institute marks the 100-year anniversary of Berenice Abbott’s first photographs with an exhibition examining the relationship between her portraits of people and her “portraits” of places. Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991) was one of the most important American photographers of the twentieth century, known for her pioneering documentary style, unpretentious compositions, and technical innovations.

  • Paris The Dishwasher Dialogues

    Sleeping with Rothko

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jun 15th, 2025

    I recall you always taking photos of yourself in these photo booths, often with staff and friends from the restaurant. Or with whoever happened to be with you at the time. Whenever we were on the metro together, changing metro lines or exiting, you would see a booth and suddenly track straight toward it. A compulsion. In hindsight, it was a bit strange, given we had access to your darkroom.

  • The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie

    Directed by Evan Goodchild

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 15th, 2025

    With his first feature length film "The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie" Evan Goodchild has created a complex portrait of a brilliant but troubled artist who ended his life at age 64. In a New York Times obituary Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Gillespie had his first solo show in 1966 at the Forum Gallery and was included in several Whitney Biennials in the 1960's and 70's, but he remained an art world outsider, respected by many but enthusiastically embraced by few."

  • Co-Founders

    ACT's Riveting World Premiere of a Bay Area Based Hip-Hop Musical

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 14th, 2025

    Esata is an ace computer coder, and Conway has a high-tech innovation that lacks code. They join forces and aspire to develop the product at an incubator in San Francisco. The narrative follows this and several other subplots in an uplifting homage to the Bay Area, and especially, a love letter to Oakland.

  • The Baroness

    Playhouse on Park

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 15th, 2025

    This world premiere provides for a delightfully funny evening in the theater. You can always count on Jacques Lamarre to push the envelope with his humor. He is at his best with this show..

  • Your Name Means Dream by José Rivera

    TheaterWorks-Hartford

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 15th, 2025

    Is this the future? Elderly people “cared for” by artificial intelligence humanoids?

  • N/A A New Play at Barrington Stage

    Timely Political Drama.

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 12th, 2025

    Given the President’s assault on the arts and higher education the one act, two hander “N/A a New Play” by Mario Correa may be taken as a bold act of defiance by Barrington Stage Company. It is likely to move the Berkshires based company up a few notches on the White House enemies list.

  • James Silin Musician and Farmer

    Performed as Jimmie Midnight

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 11th, 2025

    We met as undergraduates at Brandeis and remained connected all these years. He was my go to analyst for science and politics. Part of that was attending weekly demonstrations. He and Ann lived frugally on food that they grew. There was ongoing war with "the critters." That melancholy was heard in his singular blues.

  • Something Beautiful: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty

    Coming to Barrington Stage

    By: bSC - Jun 13th, 2025

    Widely regarded as one of Broadway’s most celebrated songwriting duos, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning creators of Ragtime, as well as the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated team behind the animated feature Anastasia.

  • Mud by Maria Irene Fornes

    Latine Theater Lab Debuts Riveting Drama

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 11th, 2025

    For its debut production, Latine Theater Lab in Ft. Lauderdale is leaning into the horror of Maria Irene Fornes's captivating drama, "Mud." In Mud, the groundbreaking Fornes deals with grim themes that seem especially urgent today.

  • The Dying Gaul

    Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 11th, 2025

    Don't let the pristine set fool you in Island City Stage's piercing production of "The Dying Gaul" by Craig Lucas. People may be most familiar with Lucas from his Romantic fantasy "Prelude to a Kiss."

  • David Margulies’ Play, Lunar Eclipse

    Directed by Kate Whoriskey

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 11th, 2025

    The brief (80-minute) play opens with George, the wonderful Reed Birney, sitting in a darkened field, sobbing. As the lights come up, we hear sounds, and soon his wife, Em, appears carrying a lawn chair and a basket of provisions – blankets, hot chocolate and more..  She has come to join him, something she hasn’t done in a long time. George loves astronomy.

  • The Sage in the Green Mountains

    Lessons from a Barefoot Doctor and a Seeker’s Journey

    By: Cheng Tong - Jun 06th, 2025

    I first encountered “Fourth Uncle on the Mountain” during a deeply formative period of my life – while living as a Daoist monk at a small temple nestled on a mountaintop in Hubei Province, China. My temple sister, Cheng Feng, and I loved this book and spent much time discussing it. She is Vietnamese and French, and felt a strong connection to Dr. Van Nguyen’s story.

  • La Boheme

    San Francisco Opera's Record 46th Production

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 09th, 2025

    In opera's most beloved work, Rodolfo and Mimi encounter love and tragedy, while Rodolfo and his three comrades share the Bohemian life of starving artists. Replete with memorable music, gentle comedy, and the inevitable death of the lead soprano, La Boheme, continues to deservedly fill opera houses almost in a class of its own.

  • More Dishwasher Dialogues

    Rauschenberg, Pollock, de Kooning and ‘Lit Dé’

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jun 08th, 2025

    During a gallery visit in the 1970s Greg scratches a cardboard piece by Rauschenberg. That evokes a discussion of the Dada, nihilist heritage of contemporary art.

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Orinda Company Makes Good with Agatha Christie Gem

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 08th, 2025

    The first-class carriage in the westbound train from Istanbul is filled with diverse travelers. One of them is drugged and stabbed to death. Hercule Poirot is on the scene and systematically solves the mystery.

  • Guntram Performed by American Symphony Orchestra

    First opera of Richard Strauss

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 08th, 2025

    Leon Botstein, the ever-adventuresome conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, brought Richard Strauss's first opera, Guntram, to Carnegie Hall. This early work by Strauss showcases a prolifically productive composer whose treasured operas and symphonic works would eventually become cornerstones of concert halls worldwide.

  • Fly by Night Dance Soars in New York

    Charming and Funny Extension of Dance Movement

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 08th, 2025

    Fly By Night Dance presented its annual New York Aerial Dance Festival at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. Founded by Julie Lutwick, the group is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern dance. This program demonstrated how storytelling can be enhanced through trapeze work, live music, and the recitation of poignant historic poems.

  • Harvey Milk Reimagined

    Opera Parallele Co-Commission of Revision Hits the Mark

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 02nd, 2025

    Harvey Milk became the first elected openly gay city official in the United States. Along with the notoriety, he became an icon and a victim of assassination. His story is told in a gripping revision of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie's 1995 opera.

  • From The Dishwasher Dialogues

    Leroy Haynes, Charles Bukowski and Simone De Beauvoir

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - Jun 01st, 2025

    Leroy’s silent advice was always there, don’t get too comfy, son, life’s tough and it’s not going to get easier. Unlike Manhattan where I had previously lived, Paris, was not menacing. Never did I sense that there were places or quartiers where I shouldn’t venture.

  • Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground

    Launches Summer Season at Barrington Stage

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 04th, 2025

    A panel of historians, in the New York Time Magazine, have positioned Dwight D. Eisenhower at 22. That’s one behind Andrew Johnson and staring up at Chester A. Arthur. It's 1962 and he's writing his memoir. A projection at the end of the compelling one man play by Richard Hellensen, starring Tony winner, John Rubenstein, has him rising in periodic polls to #5 in 2023.

  • Ragtime at Goodspeed

    Not To Be Missed

    By: Karen Isaacs - Jun 01st, 2025

    A strength of this production is the outstanding performances of the leading characters, Michael Wordly as Coalhouse Walker, Mami Parris as Mother, and David R Gordon as Tateh; each truly embodies the role and has the vocal chops to handle the music.

  • Barringtpn Stage Update

    Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind”

    By: BSC - May 30th, 2025

    Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind” on Joy Machine Records. The track is the first single of a two song EP fuzzy (Barrington Stage Company Sessions), featuring music and lyrics by Van Dyke & Talbott and performed by Cass Morgan and John Cariani.

  • Beauford Delaney at the Drawing Center

    In the Medium of Life

    By: Rosenfeld - May 30th, 2025

    Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is excited to announce the opening of In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in SoHo. Curated by Executive Director Laura Hoptman and Assistant Curator Rebecca DiGiovanna, the exhibition features approximately ninety works on paper from each period of Delaney’s career, offering a rare survey of his stylistic evolution

  • The Dishwasher Dialogues, Paris, Two

    Undocumented Getting a Real Job

    By: Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi - May 26th, 2025

    In the 1970s the artists Gregory Light and Rafael Mahdavi were undocumented living under the radar in Paris. They were paid in cash with tips by a friendly bistro. It was just enough to scrape by. This chapter of Dishwasher Dialogues recounts efforts to get “real jobs," secure mail boxes and bank accounts.

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