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Annie on Tour
Non-equity tour plays Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 13th, 2023In a new, non-equity national tour of Annie, the titular character shines bright. Cast is comprised of performers at the top of their game. The Ft. Lauderdale run continues through Oct. 22, before the show heads to Orlando.
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Salvatore Del Deo 75 Years in Provincetown
Now 95 Exhibition Surveys the Artist's Legacy
By: - Oct 07th, 2023This exhibition will be a celebration of Del Deo’s life and artistic career, featuring portraits, studio work, and the Italian landscapes celebrating his heritage, Provincetown landscapes, and reaffirm his status as a significant contributor to the legacy of the Provincetown Art Colony and to American art history.
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Sordid Lives
A South Florida Collaboration Artbuzz Theatrics and Empire Stage
By: - Oct 12th, 2023"Sordid Lives," Del Shores' comedy drama from three decades ago, is running through Oct. 22 in Ft. Lauderdale's intimate Empire Stage. The piece is funny, timely, and entertaining. Cast members find the humanity beneath the characters' eccentricities.
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Noted Russian Director Arrives at LaMama
You've Never Seen This Eugene Onegin!
By: - Oct 11th, 2023"Eugene Onegin in his Own Words" was created by noted Russian director Dmitry Krymov and presented at LaMama in New York. Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov (born 1954, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian artist, scenographer, teacher and theater director, five times Laureate of the Golden Mask award. He left Russia for USA the day after invasion into Ukraine started. Seven of his plays were quickly banned in his country. In 2022 he started Krymov Lab NYC, his new theatrical endeavor.
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Made in Vermont Series
By: - Oct 10th, 2023The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is returning to Bellows Falls on Sunday, November 5, with a special matinee at the Bellows Falls Opera House. The performance is part of the VSO’s 2023 “Made in Vermont Series;” shows highlighting guest artists from the Green Mountain State’s vibrant indie, folk, and rock scene.
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Of Mice and Men - Opera Version
Livermore Valley Opera's Compelling Production
By: - Oct 09th, 2023Composer/librettist Carlisle Floyd drew on Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck for one of his most successful operas, “Of Mice and Men.” It hews closely to the simple plotline of the novella, which is one of America’s distinguished, if controversial literary works, locally banned on various grounds, including sex, violence, racism, and euthanasia.
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The Color Purple
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 10th, 2023Ivoryton Playhouse’s production of The Color Purple running through Sunday, Oct. 15, deserves big audiences. It is an ambitious show that is very well performed. Unfortunately, some may believe it is too dark.
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Ivanov - An Immersive Adaptation
Classic Chekhov as Basis for Stylized, Interactive Performance
By: - Oct 09th, 2023Santa Fe based Exodus Ensemble has introduced theater that has become about as immersive as possible, short of the patrons spontaneously driving the narrative. Performed by a troupe of talented and committed actors, this new form of entertainment already has a track record of delighting those who value youth, spontaneity, innovation, audience participation, and rule breaking. Those preferring more established modes may be split on whether this kind of entertainment works for them.
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Alvin Ouellet Exhbits at Images Cinema in Williamstown
Berkshire Images: en plein air
By: - Oct 08th, 2023Alvin Ouellet, an Adams-based artist, will present an Artist Talk on Sunday, October 15th from 4:45 pm to 5:15 pm at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. His exhibition in the cinema lobby is on view through October 31.
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Nollywood Dreams
A Riotous Look at Making It in the Nigerian Film Industry
By: - Oct 06th, 2023Set in Lagos in the ‘90s, the story centers on a young woman who hopes to break into show business by responding to an open audition for the lead in a movie. Many universal issues arise, but with the addition of West African context and characters.
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Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie
The Maestro Takes Us on an Italian Journey with Philip Glass
By: - Oct 06th, 2023Riccardo Muti’s long and winding road in this country has led him from Philadelphia to Chicago. He is always rooted in Carnegie Hall whose acoustics benefit the micro-miniaturizing attention to a music’s score. Even Philip Glass, whose repeated phrases sometimes merge one to the other, seemed as clear as the strings that dominate in Glass’s composition dedicated to the Maestro.
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English by Sanaz Toossi
Pulitzer Prize Winning Play at Barrington Stage
By: - Oct 03rd, 2023The play, English, by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi, was selected by freshman artistic director, Alan Paul, well before it won the Pulitzer Prize in May. Because of the original actress was unavailable she has stepped in to portray Elham. Thereby, the Barrington Stage production, directed by Knud Adams, is a double triumph. The play is complex, topical and timely while her acting proves to be utterly charming.
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Hungarian National Ballet Performs Don Quixote
Gorgeous Production. Gorgeous Opera House
By: - Oct 05th, 2023The Hungarian National Ballet’s production of Don Quixote at The Budapest Opera House was a joyful presentation. The energy and mirth emanating from the stage was infectious and intoxicating: I was practically jumping out of my seat with excitement by the end of the Act III pas de deux as Kitri, danced by Tatyjana Melnyik, balanced on pointe for what seemed an eternity.
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XOXOLOLA
LakehouseRanchDotPng, Is Small Experimental and Absurdist
By: - Oct 05th, 2023LakehouseRanchDotPng mounted a riveting production of the daring show, XOXOLOLA. The small company in Miami focuses on experimental and absurdist works. LakehouseRanchDotPng just won a Silver Palm Award, recognizing theatrical excellence in South Florida.
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J. Alexander Baker at Eclipse Mill Gallery
The Big Picture Show
By: - Oct 05th, 2023Photographer J. Alexander Baker is featured at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams with the exhibition The Big Picture Show. Recently he purchased a large format printer. This project explores the issue of scale and how bigger is better.
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The City Without Jews Screened in New York
An Important Silent Film With Wonderful New Music
By: - Oct 04th, 2023What a silent film can teach us – about history and the relationship between the visual and the auditory. The City Without Jews is a famous 1924 silent film directed by H. K. Breslauer who would go on to become a Nazi, probably out of convenience. In this film, he actually seems to like Jews, to find them charming, bright and funny. Presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York.
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Legendary Montreal Curator Claude Gosselin
Founded le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal
By: - Oct 04th, 2023In 1983 Claude Gosselin founded le Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal. With great invention and wizzardry he curated lively and insightful versions of international sourced biennials. We covered a number of them for American arts publications. This article allows readers to brush up on their French.
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Copenhagen Asks What If
Michael Frayn Play At Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 02nd, 2023During the 1920s, when Niels Bohr earned a Nobel Prize in physics, he collaborated as father and son with Werner Heisenberg. In 1926, with an appointment as chair to the University of Leipzig, he became Germany's youngest full professor. In 1941, with great effort, he returned to visit Bohr in Copenhagen. What transpired between them is unknown but is the content of the remarkable play Copenhagen now on stage at Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge.
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Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Opera Philadelphia
Stellar Cast, Moving Production
By: - Oct 02nd, 2023Opera Philadelphia knows how to produce opera. They recognize its multiple forms and multiple historic periods. No company in this country has spearheaded the development of new opera with such an effective program. Yet Philadelphia also continues to produce the tried and true with great style.
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La Jolla Playhouse Goes Gonzo
Hunter Thompson Musical Premieres
By: - Sep 27th, 2023The world premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, is presented by the La Jolla Playhouse. Fifteen years in the making, the musical envisions Hunter’s life from childhood to his tragic death. The book is by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss, music and lyrics by Iconis, and choreography by Jon Rua.
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Dopplegangers at the Park Avenue Armory
Jonas Kaufman and Helmut Deutsch Double Our Pleasure
By: - Sep 28th, 2023I like to attend an event without reading the build-up. This gives me a chance to respond viscerally. Every event at the Park Avenue Armory is tasteful. Pierre Audi, the artistic director, provides this. He is unique in New York.
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Fall for Jazz in the Berkshires
Grace Kelly at Stationary Factory
By: - Sep 26th, 2023If you’re a follower of the regional jazz scene (and, the fact that you are on our mailing list suggests that you are), you may have already noticed that it is shaping up to be a busy autumn in the Berkshires. Starting with saxophone titan Grace Kelly this Friday at the Stationery Factory, something is going on every week…and often weekdays. Here’s a look at the first half of the season.
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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Technology Scores Big in the Storyline and the Score
By: - Sep 26th, 2023Composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell strike gold with this focused bio that should find a place on the opera circuit. San Francisco Opera's stunning production along with superb performances make it even better. The title character is portrayed with all of his positive and negative complexity, and even operagoers who learn nothing new about Jobs will find the opera highly involving and entertaining.
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Free Admission at Smith College Museum of Art
Advances Access, Accessibility and Inclusion
By: - Sep 26th, 2023Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is now free to all visitors starting immediately. By ending paid admission, the museum advances access, accessibility and inclusion for our neighbors and surrounding communities.
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Opera Philadelphia Presents 10 Days in a Madhouse
World Premiere by Rene Orth
By: - Sep 24th, 2023Rene Orth’s opera 10 Days in a Madhouse enjoyed a World Premiere at the Opera Philadelphia Festival. A tip off to where the weight lies in the opera was the stage set, immediately apparent when we enter the Wilma Theatre. The set is dominated by a Richard Serra-like sculpture. Our eyes and then our ears are fixed up where the orchestra tops the sculpture.
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