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Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
The Movie as a Farcical Play
By: - Sep 25th, 2026During the Cold War, an advertising executive is mistaken by spies for a U.S government man of interest to their hostile country. A chase by plane, train, and automobile from New York to Mount Rushmore commences. The twist (and there is plenty of dance-like choreography) is that the underlying tension from the suspense is retained, but the action is played for laughs.
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2026 MassArt Common Good Awards
By: - Sep 25th, 2026Now in its fourth year, the MassArt Common Good Awards shine a light on individuals and organizations who put art and design to work in service of others—expanding access to creative opportunities, enriching public life, championing diverse voices, and imagining new possibilities for their communities.
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From Call It in the Air
The Obscene Woman
By: - Sep 24th, 2026Joey flopped down on his bed in residence. Joanna’s words prowled in his head; uncomfortably so, like sharp thorns every so often making him wince to temper the sting of their indictment. He knew that she was right. He did make scenes. He was impulsive. He did shout. He was crazy. 'I can't help it,' he had said multiple times in the long debate that circled and cawed in his head like a murder of crows.
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Gottlieb Painting Acquired by Cape Ann Museum
Gift of Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation announced that it will donate one of the artist’s oil paintings, Untitled, c. 1936, to the Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection.
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What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow
Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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Experiencing Greenland via Cruise
Azamara Journey to Four Destinations
By: - Sep 22nd, 2026Because of its isolation, brutal weather, and limited support for tourism, Greenland attracts few visitors. Yet it offers an experience unlike any other, and most seasoned travelers, and even neophytes, will find things of interest.
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The Open Palm
Devotion Without Rigidity
By: - Sep 22nd, 2026There is a profound difference between dedication and obsession, between steady devotion and spiritual zealotry.
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Simon Stone's Cherry Orchard
Park Avenue Armory Goes Korean
By: - Sep 21st, 2026What is striking about the current production of The Cherry Orchard at the Park Avenue Armory in New York is its musicality. You notice this quickly, because, if you’re like most of us, you don't understand the Korean language spoken in this version of the play. It was written by the brilliant director Simon Stone, who says he wanted to "pin words onto his actors." You clearly get the emotion of the phrases—they chirp and tinkle and chip away at the air like musical notes.
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Sarasota Contemporary Dance
Upcoming Season Its 21st
By: - Sep 20th, 2026This year, each of the company’s four mainstage productions will be held at a different venue, with just one at its usual “home” stage, the Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. The most unusual will be a traveling, outdoor, site-specific work.
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Co-founder Dolly Jacobs Ousted from Circus Arts Conservatory
Sarasota Supporters Outraged
By: - Sep 18th, 2026In the days since Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Dolly Jacobs’ Sept. 11 announcement that she had been terminated by the organization’s board of directors, fans of the legendary aerialist, supporters of the nonprofit and members of the Sarasota circus community have reacted with shock, outrage and vows to discontinue support for the organization.
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Indigenous People Film Festival
Images in Williamstown
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Images Cinema will present a second edition of Indigenous Peoples Film Festival, its series featuring indigenous films from across the US and Canada, beginning Monday, October 5 and continuing weekly on Mondays through October 26th, with a finale on Thursday, October 29.
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Come From Away at Sharon PLayhouse
A Timely Revival
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Though it seems as though everyone must know the plot of come from Away by now, it is set in Gander, Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days following. Gander, once a major refueling stop for cross Atlantic flights becomes one of the airports that flights that are in the air on 9/11 are directed to when the US airspace is closed. 38 jumbo jets, mostly originating in Europe, are told to land; the 7,000 passengers on board exceed the population of the town.
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Music Theatre of Connecticut
Harmony Opens Season
By: - Sep 18th, 2026The show tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six men formed in Germany in the 1920s. Their close harmony and jazzy routines, as well as their humor made them an international success. Tours of Europe led to an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1932. Best selling recordings led to movie contracts.
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Berkshire Botanical Gardens Harvest Festival
Began in 1935
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Each October, the Garden’s 24 acres are transformed for the region’s best-known end-of-season celebration. What began in 1935 as a modest plant and bake sale has grown into a beloved Berkshire tradition featuring family activities, live entertainment, regional food, artisan vendors and hands-on gardening and educational programs.
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BSO Launches New Program
Technology and Our Humanity
By: - Sep 17th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces a rich array of humanities events to complement its orchestral programs this fall.
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Edith Wharton Play Roman Fever
Staged Reading at the Mount
By: - Sep 17th, 2026Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, “Roman Fever” explores friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and the secrets that can reshape a lifetime. In Wharton’s sharply observed story, two longtime friends revisit their shared past, gradually revealing simmering tensions, long-buried secrets, and startling revelations. The reading brings Wharton’s razor-sharp wit and enduring fascination with the complexities of human relationships vividly to life.
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From Call It in the Air
I Can Explain
By: - Sep 16th, 2026Call it whatever you like; fluke, fate; quirk; but there she was, less than twenty-four hours later, casually going about her business in broad daylight. Crossing the street. As if nothing could be more natural.
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Don Giovanni
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of Mozart Classic
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.
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Sarasota Players Fundraise for New Home
It Hasn't Been Easy
By: - Sep 15th, 2026At the Sept. 10 ceremony, the theater company broke with tradition to kick off the launch of Payne Park Auditorium and the fundraising campaign by plugging in a ghost light, which has been part of theatrical history and superstition since the 19th century.
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MFA Celebrity Lectures
Ruth and Carl Shapiro Sponsored Series
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Join us for a series of exciting lectures that brings the greatest names in their fields through our doors. Hear from innovative artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers in an ongoing conversation with you—their audience—on stimulating issues in culture today. Chosen for their creative brilliance and fresh perspectives, these speakers share their vision, their working process, and their insights.
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Landmark Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
Closing Soon
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Beautifully installed, aesthetically accessible, and sensitively illuminated, the show explores the artistic bond among three pivotal 20th-century American painters: Milton Avery (1885–1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). Their shared summers in Gloucester—beginning in the 1920s and continuing into the mid-1940s—had a profound and lasting effect on their individual development as artists.
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Bangladesh Life Lessons
A Matter of Ethics
By: - Sep 15th, 2026In ethics, there is a clear divide between absolutism and relativism. Ethical absolutism is based in the belief that there is a singular universal moral standard across all peoples & cultures. Moral relativism, however, is the belief there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles, but rather that circumstances are culturally shaped, affecting choice.
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Norweigans by C. Denny Swanson
Launches Fall seasob for Shakespere & Company
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Launching the Berkshire shoulder season, Shakespeare & Company, is presenting a dark comedy, The Norwegians, on weekends in the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's a rare treat to see the hilarious Elizabeth Aspenlieder sharing a stage with Peggy Phar Wilson.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season
Launches with William Tell
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.
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Excavating Antioch the Archaeology of an Ancient City
Davis Museum of Wellesley College
By: - Sep 11th, 2026The exhibition brings together more than 140 artifacts — including mosaics, sculpture, architectural fragments, ceramics, lamps, and other objects of daily life — drawn from six U.S. museums: Baltimore Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Art Museums, Princeton University Art Museum, and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works illuminate the architecture, artistic production, and everyday experiences of one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most significant cities.
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