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Assassins Review Ends Sarasota Players Season
Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman Musical Remains Potent and Topical
By: - May 05th, 2026Opening just days after a California man was charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, the Sarasota Players’s captivating production of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical “Assassins” could not be more topical, no matter how coincidental the timing.
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An Exquisite Eye at Clark Art Institute
Aso O. Tavitian Collection
By: - May 01st, 2026The exhibition brings together a vibrant range of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and decorative arts from more than four centuries of artistic production (c. 1450-1850). An Exquisite Eye includes rare early Netherlandish painting, Italian Renaissance sculpture, Baroque portraiture, and eighteenth-century French works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun.
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Edith Wharton Summit
At the Mount
By: - Apr 30th, 2026The Mount, Edith Wharton Cultural Center, will host the 2026 Edith Wharton Summit from Thursday, June 4 through Saturday, June 6, 2026, bringing together leading scholars, cultural historians, writers, and Wharton enthusiasts from around the world for three days of inquiry, dialogue, and immersive programming.
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Hamlet at BAM
Features Hiran Abyekserka
By: - May 05th, 2026Since its first staging at BAM in 1861, Hamlet has returned more than a dozen times, directed by luminaries like Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, and Thomas Ostermeier. Now, Robert Hastie’s new production marks another groundbreaking production into BAM’s legacy of daring Hamlets.
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Simone Levy Greenwood Retrospective
20th Century Artist Comes to Light
By: - May 03rd, 2026Simone Levy Greenwood was born to paint. Always an outsider, she carried a brush and palette for as long as she could remember. When she and her family were driven from their home in Alsace after the Germans invaded France, they ended up in Valence in Southern France where Simone, now in hiding, continued to paint.
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Noel Coward's Fallen Angels
At Roundabout Theater
By: - May 02nd, 2026This it’s a play Noel Coward wrote giving two women two actresses, stunning roles. The original London production featured Edna Best and Tallulah Bankhead. Here Byrne and O’Hara not only capture the period style but make us both admire these women who refused to adhere to convention, and at times be appalled at their drunken behavior.
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Blue Heron Stillness
Book Launch and New Course
By: - Apr 28th, 2026It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of my newest book, "The Stillness of The Blue Heron: A Manual For A Daoist Life of Clarity and Purpose When The World Is In Turmoil." This work is a collection of essays and poetry crafted to provide a sense of peace and direction during challenging times.
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The Gods of Comedy
Ken Ludwig's Farce Plays Well at Masquers Playhouse
By: - Apr 28th, 2026When university instructor Daphne loses a unique manuscript of a Greek play, she casually invokes the Greek Gods for assistance. To her surprise, Dionysus and Thalia appear, but rather than a quick solution, they complicate matters but create laughable situations along the way.
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Everything Beautiful Happens at Night
Island City Stage's Production of Ted Malawer's Play
By: - May 01st, 2026Island City Stage's strong professional production of Ted Malawer's engrossing play, "Everything Beautiful Happens at Night" runs through Sunday. "Everything Beautiful Happens at Night" is more than a carefree children’s tale come to life. This layered play invites us to consider serious, thought-provoking themes.
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Dennis Hopper, Actor, Director, Photographer and Art Collector
Out of the Blue
By: - Apr 24th, 2026In 1980 I had a gonzo interview with an ever more wasted Dennis Hopper in a suite of the Copley Plaza Hotel. He was there to do PR for the American Premiere of Out of the Blue the third film he directed after a hiatus of a decade. His directorial debut Easy Rider was a counter culture masterpiece. The second, The Last Movie, 1971. was a bomb and never released. The five images that accompany this article document his volatile mood. He spoke without restraint of his epic struggles as an artist with poignant revelations of his unique genius.
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Dishwasher Dialogue, Ginsberg, Cage and Cunningham
The American Center in Paris
By: - Apr 30th, 2026My brother played chess with John Cage and wasn’t polite enough to let him win. Cage was not a very good chess player, but he admired Marcel Duchamp who liked chess.
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Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - May 01st, 2026Avital Sagalyn: Mid-Century Provincetown showcases more than three dozen works by perhaps one of the 20th century’s most adept and exciting artists, who spent the summers of 1945 and 1946 as a young painter living at the northernmost tip of Cape Cod.
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Mr. Finn's Cabaret
Summer in Pittsfield
By: - Apr 28th, 2026Judy Kuhn leads a standout lineup that also includes Alysha Umphress (June 14–15), Tony Award winner Paulo Szot (August 16–17), Emily Skinner (August 30–31), Billy Stritch (September 2–3), and Alan H. Green (September 4–5), alongside special performances from the BSC Musical Theatre Conservatory and guest artists throughout the summer.
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The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College
Summer at the ’62 Center,
By: - Apr 28th, 2026The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College announces Summer at the ’62 Center, a new summer performance series running June 15 through August 29, 2026. The season features more than 30 days of programming and brings together leading arts organizations and local partners from across the Berkshires and beyond.? ?
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Sculptor Kelly Akashi Commissioned
For New Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Apr 29th, 2026Kelly Akashi’s work emphasizes the impermanence of the natural world, recording moments in time alongside personal and social histories. Her practice is characterized by a rigorous approach to research, deft manual skill, a reverence for process and materials, and formal play.
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Lorie Hamermesh Into the Fire
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Apr 30th, 2026Into the Fire represents a thematic departure from Hamermesh's past body of work, Desire/Shame, and focuses on the passage of time and the process of aging. This most recent body of work reveals a more meditative approach to the subject matter while maintaining Hamermesh's signature uncanny style and use of the printmaking process.
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Primary Trust
Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Apr 26th, 2026From the moment Alphonso Walker, Jr., walks down the aisle and onto the stage, I was riveted. Walker is playing Kenneth in the excellent production of Primary Trust now at Westport Country Playhouse through Saturday, May 2.
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Barbara Hannigan at the New York Philharmonic
Thrilling
By: - Apr 27th, 2026Barbara Hannigan made her conducting debut at the Wu Tsai Hall in David Geffen Hall. The performance was breathtaking. Singing Fracis Poulenc’s La voix Humaine, Hannigan makes music visible in her movements. The orchestra understood her every gesture and engaged.
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Giancarlo Guerrero Ignites Sarasota Orchestra
Announces Second Season Program
By: - Apr 27th, 2026As he nears the end of his first season as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero is quickly feeling part of a large community of music lovers. Even as he spends most of his time flying around the world for other engagements, he has been a frequent visitor to Sarasota, conducting numerous concerts, working on plans to build a new music center and getting to know the musicians, donors and staff.
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Leslie Wilcox Firebrands
Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 27th, 2026As part of the exhibition, as in her previous shows ROTTEN and OUTWITS, Wilcox invites audience collaboration, offering paper and pens for visitors and encouraging them to express their own personal feelings, opinions and concerns. Drawings are always welcome, too. Please come and write on the wall!
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Hamnet
Royal Shakespeare Production at A.C.T.
By: - Apr 24th, 2026Without evidence, Shakespeare's wife Agnes, known commonly as Anne Hathaway, has been scorned in a misogynistic way by male historians over the centuries. The novel by Maggie O'Farrell, followed by this play and the well-regarded movie, takes a different, and perhaps more plausible look at the mysterious woman and her relationship with Will.
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La Traviata
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of This War Horse
By: - Apr 21st, 2026Verdi's timeless masterpiece with libretto by Piave and based on the fictionalized autobiography of Alexandre Dumas the son continues to appeal. Among opera's most beautiful scores, the music is complemented by an engrossing story of social conflict, sacrifice, and tragic loss of life.
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Dishwasher Dialogues Da Vinci’s Shoes
The Call of the Aadvark
By: - Apr 23rd, 2026Tippex and carbon paper were the greatest technological innovations for a generation of writers. In the U.S. Tippex was called White-out or even better Liquid Paper. It did what it said, whited out errors and mistakes, and left a liquid blank space on which to try again.
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Mother's Day at The Mount
Season Opens
By: - Apr 21st, 2026The Mount, Edith Wharton Cultural Center is pleased to announce the opening of its 2026 season on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Visitors are invited to return to this historic estate to experience the beauty, history, and cultural legacy of one of America’s most celebrated literary figures, Edith Wharton.
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