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  • Gloucester Modernist Umberto Romano

    At Annex of Cape Ann Museum

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 04th, 2024

    The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space. 

  • Return to Five Immortals Temple

    Special Delivery and Renewal

    By: Cheng Tong - Dec 04th, 2024

    There is the excitement of the going, the anticipation of arrival, and a purpose to be fulfilled.  There is excitement in the coming back, the thought of sleeping in your own bed, of waking up in familiar surroundings.  Nonetheless, more than 40 hours of travel, flights, train rides, bus rides, and climbs, are daunting at any age.  In my case, that is a few weeks shy of age 75.

  • Adams Plein Air Painter Alvin Ouellet

    Ellipticals on View at Images Cinema in Williamstown

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 03rd, 2024

    The Adams based plein art artist Alvin Oueliet is presenting Ellipticals, a suite of new paintings, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, December 11.

  • Dominique Morisseau Goes to Haiti

    MacArthur Playwright Tackles New Territory

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 29th, 2024

    Playwright Dominique Morisseau grew up in Detroit.  Her trilogy based on life in the auto town is magnificent. She braves the tough subjects of our times. Her father was born in Haiti and she now eplores her Haitian roots in "Bad Kreyol" produced by the Signature Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club.

  • Remembering Alice Brock at 83

    High Times in the Berkshires

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 22nd, 2024

    A long time Provincetown resident, artist and chef, Alice Brock, has died just days before Thanksgiving. In 2014 we reminisced about the fame game. She returned to the Berkshires to host a dinner at Dream Away Lodge. She described her cuisine as "heavy handed" which may well be a metaphor for her remarkable life.

  • Berlin Philharmonic Rocks Carnegie Hall

    Kirill Petrenko Brings Fresh Ear to Music

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 20th, 2024

    The Berlin Philharmonic completed a three-day visit to Carnegie Hall in New York. The world’s greatest orchestra and its greatest conductor, Kirill Petrenko, did not disappoint.  The programming combined an anniversary  (the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner), with fresh visits to favorites like Anton Dvorak’s 7th Symphony and a Violin Concerto by the film composer Erich Korngold.

  • New Doris Duke Theatre

    To Open This Summer at Jacob's Pillow

    By: Pillow - Nov 20th, 2024

    Designed by the leading Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre occupies the site of the former studio theater from 1990, destroyed by fire in November 2020.  The new theater aims to become one of the world’s most technologically advanced dance venues, providing a makerspace for artists seeking to integrate artificial intelligence, extended reality, robotics, and immersive platforms into live performance.

  • Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver

    January Opening at Rose Art Museum

    By: Rose - Nov 18th, 2024

    A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her.

  • David Lang's Little Match Girl Returns

    Annual Holiday Event at the Crypt

    By: Susan Hall - Nov 16th, 2024

    David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning Passion opera The Little Match Girl will be performed in its original form with four artists both singing and playing instruments at the Crypt in New York.

  • Provincetown Artist and Chef Sal Del Deo

    Co-founded Ciro and Sal's

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 15th, 2024

    We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack.

  • Theatre in the Berkshires

    Annual Berkies Winners

    By: Berkies - Nov 12th, 2024

    Once again, Pittsfield-based Barrington Stage Company (BSC) was the big winner of the evening with their productions of Next to Normal, La Cage Aux Folles, Primary Trust, and Boeing, Boeing taking home many top prizes. The Mac-Haydn Theatre, in Chatham, NY, tied with BSC artists in the categories of Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Direction of a Musical, and with artists from the Berkshire Theatre Festival for Outstanding Sound Design.

  • Thornton Wilder's Our Town

    Revival on Broadway

    By: Karen Isaacs - Nov 10th, 2024

    Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town, which many consider it one of the great American plays – is getting a very good revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.

  • Same As It Ever Was

    By: Cheng Tong - Nov 10th, 2024

    n the morning after the election, I woke up to an America that is the “same as it ever was,” to borrow lyrics from The Talking Heads.  I just didn’t realize what that “same” was. America had spoken, revealing its true self at this moment to me, and I am deeply saddened by what I heard.

  • Honoring Political Theater

    Elysium- between two continents’ Erwin Piscator Awards

    By: Jessica Robinson - Nov 12th, 2024

    Founded in 1983 by Gregorij von Leitis, Elysium—between two continents is an organization dedicated to combating hate, racism, and anti-Semitism through the transformative power of art.

  • Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony

    At Matthew Swift Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 08th, 2024

    The Matthew Swift Gallery recently paired two of the leading contemporary Gloucester artists. There is compelling synergy though the artists are quite different. Gabrielle Barzaghi reflects on her family heritage with inventive mythology. The range of Susan Erony embraces the cosmos in minute detail. They breathe the salt air that has inspired generations of leading Cape Ann painters. They thrive in a community that has long been indifferent to the experiments of modernism.

  • Ghost Quartet

    A Spooky Look into the Afterlife Through Song

    By: Victor Cordell - Nov 05th, 2024

    Oakland Theater Project presents Dave Malloy's 23 dramatic vignettes about love, loss, whiskey, and the afterlife built into a song cycle. Calling on all manner of musical idioms, but with the constant of a mournful cello, it engages both musically and dramatically.

  • The Matchbook Magic Flute

    Mary Zimmerman's Adaptation of Mozart's Masterpiece

    By: Victor Cordell - Nov 03rd, 2024

    Aided by bird catcher Papageno, Prince Tamino sets out to rescue abducted Pamina, whom he has fallen in love with based only on a portrait. His quest faces the challenge of three trials and the threat of the Queen of the Night, mother of Pamina.

  • Spectacular Gift to Clark Art Institute

    311 Works of Art and Endoment for New Wing and Curator

    By: Clark - Oct 28th, 2024

    The 331 works of art in the gift include 132 paintings, 130 sculptures, thirty-nine drawings, and thirty decorative arts objects, creating an important addition to the Clark’s holdings. The entirety of the Tavitian gift will be on view when the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing opens. Following an introductory presentation at the time of the new wing’s opening, the works on paper included in the gift will be made available for study purposes and be presented in periodic displays. The majority of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects will be shown on a continual basis, both in the new Tavitian Wing and in the Clark’s permanent collection galleries.

  • Falcon Girls

    Premiere at Yale Rep

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 30th, 2024

    The play opens with the five-member team (one is an alternate), already a tight-knit bunch who have known each other forever. A new girl, Hilary, arrives and wants to be part of the team. The coach, Mr. K, decides she can be the second alternate; it is unlikely that she would ever be asked to substitute.

  • The Thanksgiving Play

    Altarena Playhouse Explores Marginalization of Native Americans

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 27th, 2024

    Logan receives a grant to create a "First Thanksgiving" play for schools. She finds that the woman she hired as "the Native American" in the small cast is anything but. How should she proceed with political correctness when she lacks a Native American voice in a project for Native American Heritage Month? Farcical situations ensue.

  • Jersey Boys

    ACT-CT in Ridgefield,

    By: Karen Isaacs - Oct 29th, 2024

    The book – the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice is one of the things that sets it above many jukebox shows. Each of the original members of the group narrates a part of the story. This allows for different perspectives on the group’s history and personalities.

  • My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford

    The Autobiography of Indra Tamang

    By: Jessica Robinson - Oct 31st, 2024

    My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford is much more than a history of famous writers,  artists and glamorous parties. At its heart, it is about Tamang’s own evolving role from a simple soul without a formal education and no knowledge of  English, into a trusted member of the Ford family’s inner circle.

  • Fallen Angels

    Aurora Theatre Makes the Most of Thin Noel Coward Play

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 26th, 2024

    As their husbands depart for an overnight golf outing, Julia and Jane find that a French lover from before their marriages is coming to London. Both women have settled into marital boredom and are tantalized by the prospect of reviving their earlier passions. The playwright exposes class and gender issues amidst continuing laughter.

  • Henze's Prince of Homburg in Frankfurt

    Important Composer Gets a Perfect Production

    By: Susan Hall - Oct 22nd, 2024

    Contemporary composers scramble for relevant subject matter. Opera companies overlook repertoire which is excellent and seldom staged. As the 100th anniversary of Hans Werner Hene's birth approaches in 2026, his work, produced in timeless fashion, offers fresh opportunities. Frankfurt Oper shows the way.

  • Tristan & Isolde

    San Francisco Opera's Fine Production of Wagner

    By: Victor Cordell - Oct 25th, 2024

    When composing this opera, Richard Wagner was obsessed with love fanned by his infatuation for the married poet Mathilde Wesendonck and death driven by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. The two existential forces are melded in the opera's thematic thrust "liebestod" (love-death), which is also the dominant leitmotif in the music. While the orchestral score soars, the dramatic action is grounded, yet it remains a pioneer of modern music.

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