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Anatevka at Komische Oper, Berlin
Better known as Fiddler on the Roof
By: - Feb 17th, 2024Most people know the story of Tevye, the milkman, as 'Fiddler on the Roof.' What started in the1960's as a sensational Broadway musical by Jerome Robbins, has kept all of its allure. 'Anatevka,' here named after the location of the action, is still the wonderful same.
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Love, Loss and Waffles
Mona Pirnot’s I Love You So Much I Could Die
By: - Feb 14th, 2024Running approximately 65 minutes without intermission, I Love You So Much I Could Die isn’t just theater, it’s an experience. The fact that I found it disturbing is a compliment to the playwright because she made me feel something, even though that something was emotionally unsettling. As Edward Albee said: “if the theater must bring us only what we can comfortably relate to, let us stop going entirely and sit in our rooms and contemplate our paunchy middles.”
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Stormin Norman’s Barbecue
Just Off 1-95 in Kenly, N.C.
By: - Feb 12th, 2024During our epic road trip to and from Florida we sniffed out barbecue. By default, we enjoyed many Mexican restaurants. In a hamlet off 1-95 we enjoyed authentic North Carolina grub at Stormin Norman's Barbecue.
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Barrington Stage Celebrates Black History Month
Free Event February 26
By: - Feb 13th, 2024Barrington Stage Company’s Black Voices Matter Program is proud to present “Black History: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future” on Monday, February 26 at 6:00pm at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden St.)
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Rhapsody in Blue 100th
Link to Berkshire Jazz Performance
By: - Feb 12th, 2024Berkshires Jazz got a jump on the centennial phenomenon last April, presenting the remarkable pianist Ted Rosenthal with the equally remarkable advanced strings ensemble from Kids 4 Harmony.
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Environmental Artist Harry Bartnick
Launches Evocative Website
By: - Feb 09th, 2024Harry Bartnick is a realist painter whose modernist aesthetic is deeply rooted in traditions of classicism. He refreshes and refines his vision through annual visits to Europe particularly the ruins of Italy. In recent years that has evolved into aerial depictions of nature ravaged by industrial and residential development. While framed as environmental commentary the works have an uncanny beauty that evoke a range of responses. Following a template, the artist has launched a website for his extensive and unique oeuvre.
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Florida State Bird
Raindancer Steak House in West Palm Beach
By: - Feb 10th, 2024Since 1975 Raindancer Steak House in West Palm Beach has been serving the Florida clan of the rich and elegant. With a fabulous vintage jazz soundtrack we enjoyed exquisite fine dining. The more so as we arrived in time for the Early Bird special menu.
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Seiji Ozawa at 88
Former Music Director Laureate of BSO
By: - Feb 09th, 2024With great sorrow, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announces the death of its beloved Music Director Laureate, Seiji Ozawa. The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s longest-serving conductor, holding the title of Music Director for 29 years (1973–2002), Maestro Ozawa died February 6, 2024, in Tokyo. He was 88 years old.
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Simona’s Search at Hartford Stage
World Preimere Needs Work
By: - Feb 07th, 2024Simona’s Search is worth seeing, even if you finally conclude that it needs improvement. Less monologue would help, as would having someone point out that Simona’s conclusions may be wrong. The only person who does that, her thesis director, is so blatantly sexist and demeaning that the audience immediately discounts that position.
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Pigout in West Palm Beach
Park Avenue Barbecue and Grill
By: - Feb 08th, 2024A month of dining on the road has its ups and downs. Mostly when turning off for the night there is a range of chains. Now and then we got lucky with diners, drive-ins and dives.
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Prayer for the French Republic
Manhattan Theatre Club
By: - Feb 08th, 2024Prayer for the French Republic is thought-provoking, but last season’s Leopoldstadt, which addresses many of the same themes, is a better work.
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My Home on the Moon
SF Playhouse Dramedy About Soup and Artificial Intelligence
By: - Feb 06th, 2024A Vietnamese soup shop verges on closure when it "wins a grant" from a mysterious company that offers to pay to implement a new marketing strategy to revive the business. A consultant's program includes an unlikely and unseemly advertising campaign, but it works. Or does it?
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The Golden Cockerel at Komische Oper, Berlin
Der Goldene Hahn by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
By: - Jan 31st, 2024Barrie Kosky, former director at the Komische Oper, Berlin, directed Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera "Der Goldene Hahn" (The Golden Cockerel) at the Schiller Theater, the temporary house of the Komische Oper during its renovation.
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Cult of Love at Berkeley Rep
Awesome Treatment of Leslye Headland's Seventh Deadly Sin - Pride
By: - Feb 02nd, 2024The Dahls raised their children in the "Christian way," and Christmas homecoming celebrated by food and song is a great family tradition. But as adults the four offspring have deviated from the parents' hopes - among them a lesbian, a pathological believer, a recovering addict, and a lost sheep. When singing together, they seem the idyllic family, but when the music stops, the fractures appear. Despite the holiday setting, this is not a Christmas play.
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Suzanne Valadon at Norton Gallery
Hidden Gem in Stunning Collection
By: - Jan 29th, 2024The young Suzanne Valadon was the favorite model and lover of Renoir. She learned much in his studio and for some 40 years pursued her own work. One of which is a gem which we encountered at Norton Gallery in Palm Beach.
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Kimberly Akimbo
A Teenage Girl With a Terminal Disease is Adult in the Room
By: - Jan 28th, 2024Doomed by progeria, a condition that ages the carrier at 4 1/2 times the normal rate, Kimberly turns 16. Her chronological age corresponds to age 72 given this condition, meaning that she probably has little time left in her life. Nonetheless, she attends to daily activities like any other school kid. But her working class parents are loose cannons, and a grifter aunt who insinuates herself into the household develops a get-rich-quick scheme that is anything but normal.
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Sartre's "Dirty Hands," at Berliner Ensemble
Opened Jan. 26 in Berlin, Germany
By: - Jan 29th, 2024Opening night of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Die Schmutzigen Hände" (Dirty Hands) on January 26th, 2024 at the famed Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, Germany was sold out.
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Barefoot in the Park
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Jan 28th, 2024Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts mounted a comical and believable production of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park." The production ran through Jan. 28. "Barefoot in the Park" takes place in New York City during the 1960s.
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Miriam and Esther Go To The Diamond District
A Mother's Death Brings Two Sisters Together
By: - Jan 21st, 2024Foraging through the belongings of their recently deceased mother, two middle-aged, somewhat estranged sisters learn more about their birth father and stepfather from a trove of letters and other documents. They also learn more about each other as they clash and bond over historical events that they either did not share or had seen from different perspectives.
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Legally Blonde - The Musical
Authenticity Overcomes Pampered Privilege
By: - Jan 15th, 2024Elle, a shallow but genuine and smart fashionista obsessed with the color pink, is dumped by her status seeking boyfriend who is off to Harvard Law School. Surprisingly (and true, except the law school was Stanford in real life), Elle insinuates an acceptance as well. Her presence provides humorous contrast to the staid environment.
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Beth Morrison Champions Contemporary Composers
Prototype Festival Launched for 11th Season
By: - Jan 15th, 2024Beth Morrison is an important leader in the development of new opera with new alliances and venues. She is a force that the future of classical music depends on. The Prototype Festival she created is now in its 11th season in New York.
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Gloucester Realist Painter Jeff Weaver
America's Greatest Unknown Artist
By: - Jan 09th, 2024While Jeff Weaver is among America’s elite realist painters his work is not widely known beyond Gloucester. During Gloucester 400th Plus an exhibition, This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver, was featured at the Cape Ann Museum. His remarkable work preceded the blockbuster show of Josephine and Edward Hopper who met in Gloucester during the summer of 1923.
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Plagiarism, Its Permutations, and How to Avoid Them
There Are Few Clear Guidelines
By: - Jan 09th, 2024Plagiarism has been very much in the news. Even the recent president of Harvard has been under the gun. And yet there seems to be no firm guidelines to instruct non-academics and even academics as to how to spot evidence of plagiarism. What follows is a meditation on plagiarism and how to avoid it.
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Lynching Tree by Steve McQueen
At the Gardner Museum
By: - Jan 10th, 2024“Museums are not simply repositories of art. They humanize the landscape of human events. They connect us to life’s most enduring themes. I have long felt this way about the Gardner, and feel it particularly keenly about a work that will be specially presented at the Museum January 20–February 4, 2024.”
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Hello Dali at the MFA
Spanish Surrealist Opens in July
By: - Jan 11th, 2024Pandering to the public continues at the ever more accessible Museum of Fine Arts. It follows a blockbuster show of Sargent portraits of white supremacists with an in depth view of the ultimate charlatan Salvador Dali. He has been described as the greatest modernist from the wrist down. Dalí: Disruption and Devotion, opens in July with 30 works by Dali compared to European masterpieces from the museum's collection. The Dalis are on loan from the St Petersburg, Florida museum. The project is both cost effective and crowd pleasing.
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