Front Page
-
All Quiet on the Western Front
German Director Edward Berger Remakes 1930 Double Oscar Winner.
By: - Oct 30th, 2022In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published the controversial anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. It follows the tale of Paul and his classmates who enlisted to fight for the Fatherland. One by one they died until Paul, the last, is killed by a sniper in the final minutes before Armistice. Just a year later Hollywood released the classic film which won two Oscars. Now available on Netflix is an epic, cinematic, gruesome remake by the German director Edward Berger. The spectacular retelling is disrespectful in selecting some and discarding many of the plot points and metaphors of a literary masterpiece.
-
Alice Denison: Posy Riot
Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Nov 02nd, 2022Alice Denison refers to this large body of work as her Pangloss series and they are rooted in her interest in ornately rendered plants and flowers. At once dreamlike and mysterious with a tangle of floating flora, they are now beginning to allude to a real place—it’s as if the tapestry has been lifted to reveal a distant landscape.
-
Rachel Siporin at Bowery Gallery
Murals in the Marketplace
By: - Oct 29th, 2022During the Depression years Mitchell Siporin found relief and commissions through the mural program of the WPA. In 1939 he traveled to Mexico and drew inspiration from the muralists. Recently discovered negatives from that trip led to an exhibitiion by his daughter Rachel Siporin at Bowery Gallery in New York. Siporin founded the studio program at Brandeis University.
-
Hamlet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
A Romp Directed by Thomas Ostenmeier
By: - Oct 29th, 2022If you think spending an evening with Hamlet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is not your best choice for a fun experience, think again. This production is a hoot. Pure pleasure.
-
Manship Artists Residency
Betty Schlemm Silent Auction
By: - Oct 29th, 2022Curator Susan Erony presented a talk about Schlemm's career and impact on Cape Ann and throughout the world of watercolor artists, followed by remembrances from family and friends. The exhibition is now available online as a silent auction.
-
James Carson at The Crypt
What to Expect from the Unexpected
By: - Oct 28th, 2022The impresario Andrew Ousley is deeply in touch with audience needs in the 21st century. In selecting dramatic and unusual settings for concerts which range from the most formal performances of classical music’s iconic and ineffably beautiful Goldberg Variations to a completely improvised concert, he helps a new audience open their ears and hearts, and more traditional concert goers to hear works anew.
-
Milk and Honey
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida
By: - Oct 25th, 2022The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton has mounted an impressive production of the rarely-produced musical, "Milk and Honey." The production runs through Nov. 6. "Milk and Honey" takes place in early 1960's Israel. The plot focuses on a lover affair, set against the backdrop of Israel trying to gain recognition as an independent nation.
-
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
At Yale Rep
By: - Oct 26th, 2022Director Bundy and René Augesen and Dan Donohue as Martha and George, manage to convey that these two people – as dysfunctional as their relationship may be – truly and deeply love each other. In other productions this often gets lost in the fighting, obscenities, insults and lies that they hurl at each other. Because of this, the play in this production ends on a more optimistic note.
-
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
West Bay Opera
By: - Oct 26th, 2022As usual, General Director and Conductor José-Luis Moskovich marshals a fine orchestra and production. Of course, the party scenes in particular require special attention, and director Igor Vieira ensures their grandeur.
-
Anthony Davis X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
Record Released
By: - Oct 25th, 2022Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound announced the world premiere recording of the revised version of Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
-
A Nice Family Gathering by Phil Olson
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Oct 23rd, 2022We can often overlook any deeper meaning when seeing a comedic play, but this one actually has a lot to say. It honors selfless mothers; urges the courage to say and do the right things before it is too late; advocates following our dreams; pillories slavish devotion to status symbols; and asks us to better understand those who are near to us.
-
We, the Innumerable at National Sawdust
Nilofar Nourbakash Captures Iranian Protests
By: - Oct 25th, 2022We The Innumerable is an opera created by the Iranian/American composer Niloufar Nourbakash with libretto by Australian aborigine Lisa Flanigan. Sara Jobin, who is committed to works which bring about peace and global understanding, conducted. National Sawdust staged. The opera tells the story of a woman who protects the truth at all costs It is set during protests in Iran after a contested election in 2009. It echoes in today’s protests.
-
4000 Miles
Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida
By: - Oct 21st, 20224000 Miles is a comedy-drama that nourishes the soul and makes you think. Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida is presenting Amy Herzog's dramedy through Oct. 30.
-
42nd Street at Goodspeed
A Timeless Musical
By: - Oct 22nd, 2022The projections and the equipment used – which I’m told were very expensive – by Shawn Duan really helped to create the setting and the locations without taking up room on the stage. I wanted to “ooh” and “aah” at them
-
Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites
San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 20th, 2022“Dialogues” is based on the true story of 16 Carmelite nuns of Compiègne who were guillotined in 1794 during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror because of their unwillingness to compromise their faith. Historically, the nuns’ singing as they ascended the gallows quieted the bloodthirsty crowd that gathered at these beheadings. In less than two weeks, Robespierre’s degenerate reign ended with his execution at the guillotine.
-
Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez at the 92nd Street Y
New York Hosts the Violinist and Singer Duo
By: - Oct 21st, 2022Joshua Bell and his wife, the soprano Larisa Martinez, performed together at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Paul Dugan accompanied on the piano with his own special touch
-
Critic Jack Lyons at 91
Covered California Theatre and Film
By: - Oct 19th, 2022We met in Chicago in 2012 as new members of American Theatre Critics Association. Since then critic Jack Lyons and I have shared a decade of theatre. He generously reposted to this site reviews first appearing in Desert Weekly News in Palm Springs, California. At the ripe age of 91 he passed recently. With credits in writing, producing and directing, he was a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild.
-
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: October 9 to January 16, 2023
By: - Oct 18th, 2022In 1936 Henry Luce bought Life Magazine and transformed it into a publication where pictures told the story. At his command to convey a narrow white supremacist fantasy of America's global dominance he employed the legendary photo journalists of his generation. Luce also published Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine and later Sports Illustrated. With a weekly circulation in the millions Life initially had a cover price of ten cents which at that time got you a cup of coffee. LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts captures its essence with an engaging but ultimately disappointing exhibition.
-
Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason
Produced by San Jose Stage
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Laura Eason’s “Sex With Strangers” explores the concept of public versus private behavior and much more. At first, it seems that this may simply be an amusing story, but the longer it plays, the deeper it gets, exposing many provocative layers, peppered with humor and conflict. San Jose Stage presents a sensationally acted and directed production of this powerhouse two hander.
-
TON Orchestra at the Rose Theater
JoAnn Falleta Conducts
By: - Oct 19th, 2022TON orchestra arrived at the Rose Theater under the baton of JoAnn Falleta. She is a conductor one wishes would spend more time in New York. Music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, she conducted at Tanglewood last summer. She brings thrilling musicality to her program choices.
-
Rare Earle Pilgrim Painting Discovered
1955 Portrait of Composer Samuel Foster Hall
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an American artist whose work is within the stylistic milieu of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism.Working in the early 1950s until the mid 1970s, Pilgrim's style is characterized by figuration informed by abstraction.The artist fluctuated between epic, large-scale compositions and intimate canvases and worked with a variety of media.
-
6th Berkshire Theatre Awards
Nominees Announced
By: - Oct 17th, 2022The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theatre in the region. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the evening of November 14 at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield.
-
Death of Classical Presents Nico Muhly's The Street
Live Artists Parker Ramsey, Monica Wyche and Hannah Spierman
By: - Oct 16th, 2022The Street is a triptych of tones and textures created by composer Nico Muhly and writer Alice Goodman. Goodman points out that this is not a libretto. It is a meditation on Christ’s walk up the stations of the cross in Jerusalem on the day he would be crucified by his fellow Jews. Its take is a street scene, and on the streets where we live.
-
Intolleranza at Komische Oper, Berlin
Intolleranza 1960, by Luigi Nono
By: - Oct 14th, 2022What an opera experience at the Komische Oper! Luigi Nono's "Intolleranza 1960" as the first opening of the 2022/23 season.
-
The Obama Portraits at the MFA
On View Through October 30
By: - Oct 14th, 2022For the first time presidential paintings are by and of people of color. Kehinde Wiley’s depicted President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald painted Michelle. In the last of five stops the tour of portraits ends at the Museum of Fine Arts on October 30.
<< Previous Next >>