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The Magic Flute at Opera San Jose
A Compelling Rendering of Mozart's Masterpiece
By: - Sep 16th, 2024Tamino falls in love with the daughter of the Queen of Night, Pamina, from her picture. To win her hand, he must conquer three trials to become an initiate into a religious order. This classic receives a sterling production from cast, creatives, and conductor, 19-year-old wonderkind Alma Deutscher.
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Leah Hawkins Captivates at the Park Avenue Armory
Awards by the Richard Tucker Foundation
By: - Sep 16th, 2024Leah Hawkins performed in the Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. She mesmerizes for her moment as Strawberry Woman in Porgy and Bess. You perked up for her Masha in Queen of Spades. She has performed an off-stage prayer in Aida and graduates to the highly-anticipated title role of the opera in Arizona next spring. A singer who can stop a show in a minute in a 4,000 seat venue, filled the intimate Officers Room room to overflowing.
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Maggie at Goodspeed
New Musical Launches Fall Season
By: - Sep 16th, 2024Maggie is a heartfelt musical that should appeal to a wide range of audiences. It is the antithesis in many ways of what some would expect of a Goodspeed musical – there is not a tap dance or big dance number in sight.
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Hell's Kitchen Musical on Broadway
Aiicia Keys Tells Her Story
By: - Sep 14th, 2024Alicia Key has created herself as “Ali” in the musical Hell’s Kitchen now playing on Broadway. Keys grew up in the Manhattan Plaza complex, a few blocks from Times Square. Built during one of New York’s deep downturns, the building was supposed to be an upper middle class apartment house. Discounted apartments did rent. It became one of New York’s most desirable residences for artists. It formed the artist Keys.
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Zombie Formalism
In the Trenches of Art War
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Zombie Modernism is Modernism without the authoritative stance of self-consciousness. There is no one home.
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Un Ballo in Maschera
San Franciso Opera's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 13th, 2024In this opera drawn from history, Sweden's Gustavus III loves Amelia, the wife of his friend and ally Renato. When the husband finds out, he joins assassin conspirators from the disaffected nobility. This Verdi masterpiece, replete with dramatic music, is given the finest treatment by accomplished principals and creative staging designers.
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ICA Showcases East Boston Artists
Harboring Creativity
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of East Boston’s artistic community at “Harboring Creativity,” an exhilarating two-day art event happening for its second year at the iconic ICA Watershed on November 16 and 17, 2024, from 11 AM to 4 PM with a reception on Saturday from 4pm – 6pm with food donated by local restaurants.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Seminal Gloucester Artists
On View at Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Sep 11th, 2024Both Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony are among the contemporary women artists whose work is on view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 29. They are having solo shows at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery.
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The Prom
Musical About Sexual Discrimination in High School
By: - Sep 10th, 2024Four New York theater performers hope to attract attention for what they purport to be the selfless act of inducing an Indiana high school to reverse the cancellation of its prom because a lesbian student planned to attend with a girlfriend as her date. Based on a true story, the visitors encounter unexpected headwinds. Despite notes of pathos and bitterness, a joyous tone prevails, and the play ends on a hopeful note.
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Three Tall Persian Women By Awni Abdi-Bahri
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 09th, 2024Three Tall Persian Women by Awni Abdi-Bahri, an emerging playwright, is having its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Three generations of women gather to celebrate the anniversary of the passing of the husband of Nasrin. Her daughter Goinar, a recent MFA graduate, has flown in from New York. Things are not going well when Shayan, a most eligible bachelor, arrives with flowers. All hell breaks out when they drink magic mushroom tea.
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Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks' Musical at Sonoma Arts Live
By: - Sep 08th, 2024Dr. Frederick Frankenstein returns to Transylvania and hopes to improve on his grandfather's flawed creation - "The Monster." He succeeds in producing a new and improved monster but must deal with many zany characters and complications along the way.
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Little Island Presents Marriage of FIgaro
Anthony Roth Costanzo is Gender Fluid
By: - Sep 07th, 2024The major event at New York’s Little Island this summer is an abbreviated version of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with all seven roles sung by premier countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. It will be performed through September 22. Zack Winokur produces.
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Carlos Caicedo at Eclipse Gallery in North Adams
Pencils Make a Point
By: - Sep 07th, 2024Colombian born, Carlos Caicedo, is an award winning graphic designer, artist/ photographer, and fashion creator. His remarkable range of skills is on vivid display in a dense installation at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams.
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Winter Season at '62 Center in Williamstown
Performance Programming at William College
By: - Sep 06th, 2024Kicking off our visiting artist series, the CenterSeries, is Vuyani Dance Theatre performing Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro on Thursday, September 26th. Physically charged and visually striking,?the work?is choreographed by South African native and internationally-known choreographer Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.?Cion?draws inspiration from author Zakes Mda’s novel, Cion?, and Ravel’s Boléro. It is, in?Maqoma’s?words, “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
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Jeffrey Gibson at MASS MoCA
Installation in Building 5 Opens Nov. 3
By: - Sep 04th, 2024Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation that will occupy MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery and follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition opens on November 3.
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4 Guys Named Named José...and Una Mujer Named Maria
A Latin American Jukebox Musical at 6th Street Playhouse
By: - Sep 01st, 2024Four young men from different Latin American heritages meet in Omaha, Nebraska. When joined by a young woman, Maria, song breaks out. The plot is superficial, but the song and dance will arouse feelings of nostalgia for those familiar with the music of the region.
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Human Error
Town Hall's Humorous Look at IVF, Medical Error, and Politics of Division
By: - Sep 01st, 2024When a liberal couple learns that their embryo stored at a laboratory has been mistakenly implanted in a conservative Christian wife, the two couples meet to try to resolve the catastrophe. The story follows the bumps along the way for the following nine months, finding a highly entertaining balance between humor and conflict.
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Dance in August, Berlin, 2024
Tanz im August, International Festival
By: - Sep 02nd, 2024The 36th 'Tanz im August' took place from August 15th – 31st in Berlin. It is the most important European dance festival showcasing contemporary dance tendencies around the globe.
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Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970
Cape Ann Museum
By: - Aug 30th, 2024For its final exhibition before shutting down for renovation, the Cape Ann Museum took on but squandered presenting an important subject. Women Artists on Cape Ann: 1870-1970 was curated but under served by curator Martha Oaks. There is no catalogue, critical essay, or check list. Other than wall labels we learn little or nothing about obscure women artists. The museum opted to put minimal resources into what potentially was an important chapter of art history.
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Pillow Lab Residency Program
Ten Residencies Through Next Summer
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Jacob’s Pillow announces the artists selected to participate in 10 onsite residencies this fall through next summer, as part of the Pillow Lab residency program. Artists participating in this series, in chronological order, are: Hélène Simoneau Danse; Emily Coates, Ain Gordon, and Derek Lucci; Music from the Sole; Andy Blankenbuehler and Kate Quinn; Brinae Ali; dani tirell; Peter Rockford Espiritu and Roberta Uno; Joanna Kotze; The Choreodaemonic Collective; and Rosy Simas. Programming and dates are subject to change.
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Die, Mommie, Die!
A Hilarious Comedy Classic in South Florida
By: - Aug 28th, 2024Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale is presenting a deft comedic production of the hilarious parody, Die, Mommie, Die! Prolific and talented playwright Charles Busch penned the play. Busch has fun with Greek tragedy and 1960s melodramatic films known as Grande Dame Guignol Cinema.
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Dr. Nathaniel Halper Provincetown Arts Leader
Joyce Scholar and Gallerist
By: - Aug 29th, 2024Dr. Nathaniel Halper was the first Provincetown arts activist that I interviewed starting in 1982. He died just a year later leaving a distinguished legacy. For a time he was director of HCE then the most prominent of many galleries. In later years he formed a partnership with Mervin Jules to buy and resell from the estate of Karl Knaths. He offered many insights to the prominent arts community.
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Jacob’s Pillow 2024 Season Ends
Dance Theatre of Harlem
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Yesterday we attended a performance of Dance Theatre of Harlem which concluded the nine week, 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Season. Yet again artistic director, Pamela Tatge, created a stunning festival of world renowned companies.
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The NIght Alive
Dark Comic Drama of Life on the Fringe in Dublin
By: - Aug 25th, 2024Tommy and Doc exist on the outside fringe of Irish society. When Tommy saves streetwalker Aimee from a beating by her ex-boyfriend and takes her in to recover from her injuries, new problems follow. Playwright Conor McPherson explores the survivalist lives of Dublin's underbelly, full of challenge but with occasional redemption.
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Darrel Ellis and Miguel Ferrando at Candice Madey Gallery
Divergent Styles, Intertwined Lives: An Artistic Journey
By: - Aug 26th, 2024Darrel Ellis & Miguel Ferrando, delves into the intertwined lives and artistic journeys of two figures who were more than just friends—they were creative soulmates. Though their careers spanned only a handful of years (Ellis died of AIDS in 1992 at 34, and Ferrando in 1996, at 38 ), their work, showcased side-by-side, offers a rare glimpse into a unique artistic creative partnership from the 1980s.
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