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An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection
The Clark Art Institute Presents
By: - Jul 03rd, 2026The current installation of 150 works represents about half of the collection. The works on paper will be available for view and study as well as in displays of limited duration. A gift of this quality and depth is unprecedented. It greatly enhances the Clark as one of the foremost regional American museums.
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What's Next
Tabula Rasa
By: - Jun 30th, 2026In the early 2000s, there was a popular television drama, The West Wing, that followed the hyper-fast, high-stakes lives of the political elite inside the White House. Whenever the fictional president finished a grueling debate, resolved a global crisis, or wrapped up a staff meeting, he would look around the room, slap his hands together, and utter a signature two-word phrase: “What’s next?”
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Burst
Southeastern Premiere of Rachel Bublitz's Dark Comedy
By: - Jun 30th, 2026New City Players in South Florida will present the southeastern premiere of Rachel Bublitz's dark comedy, Burst, from July 11-26. A pay-what-you-wish preview will take place on Friday, July 10. The 90-minute corporate thriller-comedy centers on a tech startup CEO with big ambitions.
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Copland and Twain on Broadway
Chelsea Music Festival
By: - Jun 28th, 2026Copland and Twain was a highlight of the Chelsea Music Festival 2026. For the first time, the adventurous group that produces this festival mounted a work in a Broadway venue. To make a 250th anniversary statement for our country, they chose to mix the music of Aaron Copland, often called the Dean of American Music, with the words of Mark Twain, our liveliest chronicler.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
At Cape Ann Museum of Art
By: - Jun 29th, 2026On view at the Cape Ann Museum from June 30 through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in October 2026—marking the first time an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Museum will tour to a national museum.
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Bernstein/Avery: Discovery Made Visible
Cape Ann Collectors
By: - Jun 30th, 2026Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) and Milton Avery (1886-1965) ran in the same modernist circles, summering in the same art colonies and gathering at Bernstein and husband William Meyerowitz’s home in East Gloucester – steps away from Good Harbor Beach. All three modernists walked away from abstraction, capturing an intimacy where realism and abstraction intersect – observed reality.
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Sarasota Ballet Returns to The Joyce
Company's Third Visit to New York City
By: - Jun 29th, 2026In a not particularly surprising reveal, The Sarasota Ballet has announced it will begin its 20th season under Director Iain Webb with a six-day, seven-performance run at The Joyce Theater in New York City prior to opening its home season in Sarasota in late October.
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Charming 'Dog Mom' at Florida Studio Theatre
An Actress Plays a Stray Dog
By: - Jun 29th, 2026I have never been much of a dog person, but I quickly fell for the one played by Kelsey Leigh Stalter in Tate Elizabeth Hanyok’s charming and touching new comedy drama “Dog Mom” running through July 26 in Florida Studio Theatre’s Keating Theatre.
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Sweeney Todd Sondheim's Masterpiece
TheaterWorks Hartford and Hartford Stage
By: - Jun 27th, 2026Sweeney is the first co-production of Hartford’s two major theaters: TheaterWorks Hartford and Hartford Stage. The two combined resources for this demanding work. It uses the expansive space at Hartford Stage, while calling on the talents of the Artistic Director and award-winning Director Rob Ruggiero of TheaterWorks to stage the musical. The production team includes veterans of both Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks productions as well as some new people.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
Dan Spear
By: - Jun 28th, 2026It was the truth. Well, close. His mother had said something like that after another dumb incident with his uncle. It had happened one evening when Frederick—having nothing better to do, Joey guessed—nudged his nephew with his foot while they were watching television and mused that if he dropped Joey's baseball and his rubber eraser from the same height, they would both hit the floor at the same time.
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Alcina
Baroque Handel Opera Set to Fantasy Libretto
By: - Jun 21st, 2026Identity and gender confusion rule the day, both in characters and the composer's casting specifications. Festival Opera recognized what a delightful fit for Pride Month this fine Handel work is.
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Cabaret
Moving co-production in South Florida
By: - Jun 25th, 2026ArtBuzz Theatrics and Florida Theatrical Evbents presents an intimate and immersive co-production of "Cabaret" through this Sunday. Nealy 60 years after its Broadway debut, Cabaret still lands with uncomfortable clarity. The show won the Tony Award for Best Musical.
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Consistency in the Ordinary
By: - Jun 16th, 2026This is the second writing in the trilogy, a supporting essay to The Alchemical Ash. The third will come in two weeks.
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Berkshire Artist Morgan Bulkeley at 81
Had 2018 Retrospective at Berkshire Museum
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Berkshire artist, Morgan Bulkeley, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 81. Bulkeley was known for whimsical narrative work in a variety of media from painting to carved relief and free-standing sculpture. He graduated from Yale where he majored in literature. That led to an auto-didactic approach. Approachable and understated he was admired and appreciated by a circle of friends in Boston and the Berkshires. What follows is a review of his 2018 retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. There is going to be a memorial service for him on July 18th.
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Ain't Too Proud
Musical and Personal History of the Temptations
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Emerging from the Motown stable, the Temptations became the most successful R&B singing group of their era, perhaps of all time. But with success came the pain of many personal failures. Ain't Too Proud evidences the joy of their music against the backdrop of the challenges of dealing with professional demands and fragile psyches.
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Barrington Stage Company Receives Grant
From Shubert Foundation
By: - Jun 15th, 2026Barrington Stage Company, is the recipient of a $125,000 grant from The Shubert Foundation. Granted in the category of Theatre, the award will support key programming in BSC’s 2026 season. The award represents a $5,000 increase over last year’s grant.
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Heavy/Light
Annual Kingston Associates Show
By: - Jun 18th, 2026Making art in a sharply polarized, hyper-political moment, HEAVY / LIGHT is less about choosing a side and more about choosing a stance toward the noise itself. Artists, as culture bearers, face a persistent tension – to ignore the churn of daily politics and risk irrelevance, to engage it directly and risk becoming didactic, or to translate the deeper emotional and social currents beneath it into something more enduring.
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Clark Shows Works on Paper
CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings
By: - Jun 15th, 2026CoastLines: American Prints and Drawings draws almost entirely from the Clark’s collection, bringing together a vast range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of life along the shore
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Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Announces Annual Artists Grants
By: - Jun 19th, 2026The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need. The mission of this grant is to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in painters who lack adequate recognition.
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The Monsters at La Jolla
Savage Sport on Stage
By: - Jun 17th, 2026The La Jolla Playhouse presents The Monsters, written by and starring UC San Diego MFA graduate Ngozi Anyanwu as LIL, alongside Sullivan Jones as her older brother, BIG.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
Calculating the Days
By: - Jun 18th, 2026To Joey, barely eleven years old in 1962, flipping a penny one million times did not seem an unreasonable task. He wasn't sure how big it was—he knew it was big—but it was a number he'd heard people use in connection with lots of things, so it had to have an end. Some people, like Diane's father, even made a million dollars in one year.
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Henry Ferrini of Gloucester Writers Center
Founding Director to Retire
By: - Jun 14th, 2026In a newsletter Henry Ferrini wrote "As many of you know, I am retiring on June 30th as Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. As one of its founders, I wanted to share a little origin story of how Vincent's home became the community's house."
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San Francisco Opera's Elektra
Strauss's Horrifying Opera
By: - Jun 09th, 2026Taken from the Sophocles tragedy, Elektra vows revenge on her mother Klytemnestra and her mother's lover Aegisth for having murdered her father Agammemnon.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
Typhoon George
By: - Jun 10th, 2026The thought caught Joey, broadside. Yeah, he mused, slumping back into the plush leather sofa George's company thoughtfully provided out in reception, maybe that's it? He's being fired.
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette's Take on Family Conflict and Teen Angst
By: - Jun 08th, 2026How often do we learn of what seemed to be an idyllic family concealing secrets that belie their apparent success and happiness? The musical based on the wildly popular album of the same name powerfully explores family dynamics and teen rebellion.
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