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Summer at The Mount
Richly Varied Programming
By: - Mar 31st, 2026This summer marks the debut of The Mount’s refreshed visual identity, honoring Edith Wharton’s legacy while embracing the organization’s evolution into a vibrant, multidisciplinary cultural center.
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Hermitage Artists Retreat Expands Reach
Gifted Land on Manastoa Key, Florida
By: - Mar 31st, 2026For more than two decades, hundreds of writers, painters, composers, dancers and others have come to the Hermitage Artist Retreat on Florida's Manasota Key for inspiration to create new work. They stay in historic, waterfront cottages as they develop new exhibits, prepare for premieres of plays and symphonies, share ideas with other creatives on the campus or take time to recharge by walking on the beach and watching sunsets.
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Anything Goes at Alterena Playhouse
Cole Porter's Beloved Chestnut
By: - Mar 29th, 2026Billy Crocker impulsively stows away on a cruise ship crossing to London. Avoiding his boss, who is onboard, and the captain prove a challenge. Pratfalls ensue, but so do amorous couples.
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Camelot
Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton
By: - Mar 31st, 2026The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in South Florida presents a youthful and moving "Camelot. The Wick's production of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical runs through April 12 at the company's elegant venue in Boca Raton. The show is especially timely in the wake of the recent "No Kings" protests across the country.
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Jazz at Carnegie Hall with Gerald Clayton
Langree Conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke's
By: - Mar 28th, 2026St. Luke’s Orchestra under the baton of Louis Langree gave a splendid performance of classic American music on March 26. Starting with Charles Ives’ Unanswered Question (on the solo trumpet that begins the work and is answered indefinitely by flutes) Duke Ellington’s iconic works which had their premieres at Carnegie Hall over a half century ago followed. They still feel fresh.
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The 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
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Sarasota Players
By: - Mar 27th, 2026Miller’s play, set during the time of the Salem witch trials in 17th century Massachusetts, opened more than 70 years ago, but it continues to resonate whenever it is produced, even in an admirable if not fully realized production.
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August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean
A Long Wharf Production
By: - Mar 24th, 2026By the time Gem was written, Wilson had established some themes and techniques that are present in almost all the plays: characters have long soliloquies reminiscent of jazz riffs; supernatural elements or characters with mystical gifts are prevalent. The focus is mainly on African American men. In addition, the settings often revolve around real events.
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Neil Simon's Broadway Bound
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Mar 27th, 2026Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida has mounted a touching and funny professional production of Neil Simon's hit, "Broadway Bound."
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Dishwasher Dialogues, Get a Real Job
Square One
By: - Mar 26th, 2026I was very lucky. I have met over my life many painters who are better than I am in all ways, better technically, with a more fertile imagination, hard-working and self-disciplined, and they have had no luck, haven’t made it to square one.
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Peri Schwartz at Gallery NAGA
Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes
By: - Mar 26th, 2026Reverberations showcases the range of Schwartz's treatment of still life within the self-imposed set of subject matter limitations and the confines of her studio. Gradually, the artist shifted away from more traditional compositions of stoneware and fruit toward non-organic forms, illuminated by strong natural light and vibrantly colored liquids or subdued in sepia and monochrome
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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Pulitzer Winner at Venice's Stage II
By: - Mar 24th, 2026Years before the #MeToo movement empowered women and began toppling men in power, Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for exploring the subjects of sexual abuse, pedophilia, incest and grooming in her beautifully and sensitively written play “How I Learned to Drive.”
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A Traveler's Commentary on a Seychelles to Singapore Cruise and a Comparison of Singapore and Bangkok
Exotic, Less-Traveled Destinations and More
By: - Mar 22nd, 2026Indian Ocean cruise ports-of-call recommended for the experienced travelers plus the contrast of Southeast Asia's two most popular destinations.
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Carla Munsat, 1938-2026
Co Founded Art New England
By: - Mar 18th, 2026Carla Munsat (1938-2026) a beloved publisher, editor and friend has passed away. With Stephanie Adelman they co founded Art New England in 1975. They had no prior journalistic or business experience. The publication slowly evolved to have a graphic and editorial identity. At its peak it was widely read and influential. At the time they identified and fulfilled a significant need.
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World Premiere about High School Girls and Music
By: - Mar 20th, 2026Four high schoolers meet in a summer music program for girls in Berkeley, California. Despite differences in performance preference, classical vs. improv, as well as life styles, the four find an ability to mesh their skills and form friendships.
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The Dance of Change
Understanding Bagua in the Daoist Tradition
By: - Mar 18th, 2026To understand Bagua (Eight Trigrams), one must first look past the physical movements of the martial art and toward the very architecture of the universe as viewed by the ancient Daoist sages. In the Daoist cosmogony, we move from the Wuji (the Empty Void) to the Taiji (the Supreme Ultimate/Yin and Yang). Bagua represents the next step in this unfolding: the diversification of energy into eight fundamental forces that govern all change in the natural world.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues, Parisians Sans Haute Couture
La Sagesse des Clodos
By: - Mar 19th, 2026For the bums in the subway, each person could be a heating source for the other. The metro was usually warm when the stations were underground, and that’s why I never took the bus in winter. They weren’t well-heated. I felt for the clochards, les clodos–—the beggars and the outcasts, who spent their days in the metro.
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Jon Stewart at Tanglewood
Joins Popular Artists Series
By: - Mar 18th, 2026Legendary comedian Jon Stewart has joined Tanglewood’s 2026 Popular Artist Series, further expanding the season’s exciting and varied lineup. The Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody Award winner and Daily Show host will perform at the Tanglewood for the first time on Saturday, June 20 at 7 p.m., presenting this summer’s only solo comedy show in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. He will open the show performing on drums with his band Church and State.
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Spatial Poems at Mass MoCA
Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
By: - Mar 19th, 2026MASS MoCA is pleased to present Spatial Poems, a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by CEI Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson. The exhibition features the work of artists Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
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Death of a Salesman
Hartford Stage
By: - Mar 19th, 2026Those who have never seen this classic play will probably come away from the Hartford Stage production moved and certainly understanding why it has endured. But they may not truly appreciate how great a play it is.
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Art in Bloom at the MFA
50th Anniversary of Spring Event
By: - Mar 18th, 2026The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), celebrates the return of spring with the 50th anniversary of its beloved Art in Bloom festival, taking place from Friday, May 1, through Sunday, May 3. Since 1976, this annual celebration has paired art from the MFA’s collection—from ancient to contemporary—with floral interpretations created by New England garden clubs, professional designers, and MFA floral volunteers.
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New Human Species Identified
Not Fossil Remains, but Living Today
By: - Mar 17th, 2026Conventional wisdom says that after millions of years of evolution, Homo sapiens is the sole surviving species of human. But in his book Fire in a Wire, Berkshires-based author Steven Reed Nelson disagrees.
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Arms and the Man
G. B. Shaw's Classic Comedy
By: - Mar 13th, 2026During the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fighting for Serbia sneaks into the home of a Bulgarian military leader and establishes a relationship with his daughter. Shaw's anti-war tract also skewers issues of social class and traditional notions of honor.
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Primary Trust
The Effect of Disruption on Routine
By: - Mar 15th, 2026His whole adult life, Kenneth's world has been comprised of working at an independent bookstore and drinking Mai Tais during happy hour at a local tiki bar in upstate New York. When the bookstore is to close, his life is thrown into disarray, but sometimes disruption leads to opportunity. This Pulitzer Prize winning play investigates loneliness and the ability of connectedness to lead to a better life.
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Mannes Opera Presents a Korngold Premiere
A Silent Serenade Given its Delicious US Debut
By: - Mar 14th, 2026Mannes Opera mounted the United States premiere of Erich Korngold’s The Silent Serenade at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York. Korngold set the standard for film scoring during his decade in Hollywood, and the insights he gained while scoring Robin Hood are evident in this charming blend of Johann Strauss and Jack Warner.
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