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  • Berkshire Opera Festival Announces Season

    Mark Your Calendars

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 21st, 2024

    Berkshire Opera Festival  (BOF) announces its 2024 season in Great Barrington, MA and New York City. The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, BOF produces opera at the highest level under the vision of esteemed co-founders Brian Garman (Artistic Director) and Jonathan Loy ((Director of Production).

  • Gloucester's Legendary Dogtown Common

    Conjured by Playwright Peter Littlefield and Artist Gabrielle Barzaghi

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 25th, 2024

    Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines, shunned for practicing witchcraft. It was inspired by Charles Mann’s 1906, The Story of Dogtown or In the Heart of Cape Ann, that compiles recollections about the outsiders, berry-pickers, subsistence farms and self-proclaimed witches that inhabited Dogtown after it was abandoned in the early 1800s.

  •   Two at Boston Sculptors

    Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox

    By: Boston Sculptors - Feb 27th, 2024

    First Friday, March 1, 5 - 8:30pm, will feature the reception & artist talks at Boston Sculptors in the South End. Works by Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox will be on view through March 31. There will be artist talks on Saturday March 16 from 2-5 PM.

  • La Jolla Playhouse Presents Redwood

    Is Living in a Forest Canopy the Answer

    By: Sharon Eubanks - Mar 03rd, 2024

    Redwood, a musical drama conceived and written by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, is currently playing at the La Jolla Playhouse.  Composer Kate Diaz provides the expansive score with lyrics by Diaz and Landau.  Redwood tells the story of Jesse (played by Idina Menzel), a hard-charging, no-holds-barred New Yorker who is struggling to find purpose in her life following the death of her young adult son. 

  • Grumpy Old Men The Musical

    At Seven Angels Theatre

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 07th, 2024

    Most of the humor is of the middle-school-boy type – lots of insults and adolescent sexual innuendo. How much of this you find funny or just too much depends on your sense of humor and how much seeing grown men call each other a variety of offensive words is enjoyable. How many sexual jokes do you want John’s father, who is ninety, to make? For me, it was way overdone.

  • Popular Artists at Tanglewood

    New Names Added

    By: BSO - Mar 07th, 2024

    New additions to the Popular Artist Series at the Tanglewood Music Festival bring a parade of classic rock, contemporary pop, and R&B stars to the Koussevitzky Music Shed between June 20 and Independence Day, supplementing several more previously announced dates in July and August. New additions to the Shed lineup include Roger Daltrey with KT Tunstall, Brandi Carlile, and Jon Batiste, as well as John Fogerty and George Thorogood on tour together and Jason Mraz with the Boston Pops conducted by Sean O’Loughlin.

  • Conflating Lovecraft, Mugar and Houellebecq

    iterary Sources for an Artist’s Work  

    By: Martin Mugar - Mar 18th, 2024

    Of course my painting is not in the realm of the noxious monsters of Lovecraft but the eventual push of the visual event off the surface seems to speak to a similar aggressive desire to reach out and engage the viewer. It also begins to abandon the pleasant color field that had dominated my work from the beginning of the millennium. 

  • Morgan Bulkeley at Bernay Fine Art

    Great Barrimgton Group Show Opens March 30

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 28th, 2024

    Get ready to embark on a whimsical journey through the world of cartoons and illustrations as Bernay Fine Art presents ARToons. This vibrant exhibition promises to enchant both the young and the young at heart.

  • Cape Ann Museum 2024

    Is there Life After Hopper

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 30th, 2024

    With minimal marketing and fanfare the Cape Ann Museum launches its 2024 season with the special exhibition In the Round: 20th Century Cape Ann Sculpture which opens April 6 from 3 to 5 pm. It focuses on major sculptors who lived and worked on Cape Ann. In July there will be a survey of women artists. The museum has pulled back to business as usual following last summer's blockbuster Edward Hopper and Jo Nivison exhibition in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art.

  • Biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award

    Davis Museum at Wellesley College

    By: Davis - Apr 02nd, 2024

    The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is proud to announce the third iteration of the biennial Prilla Smith Brackett Award. This biennial award honors an outstanding female-identifying visual artist based in the Greater Boston area. Funded by Prilla Smith Brackett (Wellesley Class of 1964) and administered by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Brackett Award will be given to the artist whose work demonstrates extraordinary artistic vision, talent, and skill. The award winner will be announced in Fall 2024.  

  • Steinberg/ATCA

    Playwrights Vying for Annual Award

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 02nd, 2024

    Six play finalists are in the running for a major national annual award presented by theater critics. The American Theatre Critics Association annually presents the 2024 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New play Award. The winner will be announced in May.

  • TEETH: When Men Attack, Her Body Bites Back

    A Pop/Horror Musical at Playwrights Horizons

    By: Jessica Robinson - Apr 05th, 2024

     Drawing inspiration from the 2007 cult-horror film by Mitchell Lichtenstein, this energetic show satirizes purity culture and sexual desire while tossing in a bit of biting commentary on misogyny.  

  • Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA

    And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Mar 26th, 2026

    The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026

  • Death of a Salesman

    Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 07th, 2024

    Palm Beach Dramaworks delivers an award-worthy production of "Death of a Salesman." The company's mounting of Arthur Miller's masterpiece runs through April 20.

  • Julis Bullock Expands Harawi in Aix

    Choreographed Drama by Zack Winokur

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 22nd, 2022

    Julia Bullock has made a big opera career outside conventional wisdom. At the Aix Festival in Provence this year she sang Olivier Messiaen's Harawi, a challenging work to which she brings unusual insights.

  • The Nose at the Munich Opera

    Russian Dissident Kirill Serebrennikov

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 21st, 2022

    Kirill Serebrennikov, the brilliant Russian director, brought The Nose to Munich via Zoom. He is detained by the Russian government in Moscow. The production is superb.

  • Nan and the Lower Body by Jessica Dickey

    TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 18th, 2022

    The play opens with Dr. Pap addressing a classroom – the audience.  The content of the lecture is unimportant, yet those brief moments absolutely hook the viewer.  There is no waiting to get involved with the story line. 

  • La Belle et la Bête by Philip Glass

    Opera Adapted from Cocteau

    By: Victor Cordell - Jul 15th, 2022

    n Philip Glass’s adaptation of a trilogy of Cocteau films to opera (the others being “Orphée” and “Les Enfants Terribles,” both previously produced by Opera Parallèle), the composer saved his most imaginative treatment for this most uncommon love story. 

  • Jeremy Denk and Maria Wloszczowska

    The 92nd Street Y Presents Bach

    By: Susan Hall - Jul 09th, 2022

    Jeremy Denk is a world class pianist and writer. Recently he performed Bach violin sonatas with a magnificent young violinist, Maria Wloszczowska at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York. 

  • Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group

    Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 02nd, 2022

    Covid delayed the opening of Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group by two years. It was worth the wait with a tasty buffet dinner on opening night at Berkshire Art Museum in downtown North Adams. The former church houses the Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation, Most of the church displays a permanent installation of his work. The three levels of the tower galleries has a lively display of works by diners and artists.

  • Eva Luna Dramatized at Repertorio Espanol

    Storytelling Honored on Stage

    By: Susan Hall - Jun 30th, 2022

    Repertorio Espanol presents big theater in a compact space. Productions are often not only intense but sprawling in their content. The trick of compacting large stories in a small space is one of the company’s specialties. Eva Luna, Caridad Svich’s apt dramatization of Isabel Allende's big third novel, gives ample opportunity to display these skills.

  • Bousquet Jazz Festival

    Thursday, June 30

    By: Jazz - Jun 27th, 2022

    First annual Bousquet Fazz Festival is free. Thursday June 30 at the base of Bousquet Ski slopes in Pittsfield.

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    A Production by GableStage Near Miami

    By: Aaron Krause - Jun 21st, 2022

    A powerful production of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is running through June 26 at GableStage in Coral Gables (suburban Miami). In "The Year of Magical Thinking," author and journalist Joan Didion recounts the year following her husband's sudden death. The basis for the play adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is the award-winning memoir by Joan Didion.

  • Ringo to Starr at Tanglewood Afterall

    The tour Now Begins September 5

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 16th, 2022

    Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band - Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter - revealed the revised itinerary for their September tour, includes all 12 of the dates that they recently had to postpone.  The tour now begins September 5 at Tanglewood, in Lenox, MA and concludes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 20.

  • The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

    Produced by Marin Theatre Company

    By: Victor Cordell - Jun 03rd, 2022

    A relationship staple in the catalog of dramatic themes is that of professor and student.  Traditionally, the professor is a man who takes sexual or emotional advantage of a female student, but that formula has diversified in recent decades.

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