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The Music of Mothers by Victoria Evans Erville
Produced by TheatreF1rst
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The playwright, Victoria Evans Erville, who also directs, dispatches a dizzying number of important social messages and does so in an entertaining and involving manner. The central theme considers the effects of politics Victoria Evans Erville on the two lifelong friends, and while May remains consistent throughout, Ethyl offers more interest as a character because she evolves, and not always in one direction or with consistency, which makes for a more intriguing person and reflects realism.
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Jennifer Koh and Davone Tines at BAM
Outsider Voices in an Alien Culture
By: - Oct 14th, 2022Across a crowded room at the Paris Opera, Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines looked at each other and realized they had something in common, something that was different from everyone else in the room: their color. They have joined forces to bring ther unique stories to a culture they find alien. Everything Rises is presented as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The play by Simon Levy (who has also adapted two other Fitzgerald novels to play form) follows the book. While there have been other stage versions, this one, written in 2006 seems now to be the standard.
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Modernist Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
Appointed Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) has announced the promotion of Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, a specialist in modern and contemporary art and one of the world’s leading experts on art and technology, to the position of Curator.
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Where Locals Eat
Getting Off the Beach
By: - Oct 10th, 2022To find the best, fresh seafood you have to get off the honky-tonk beach and head inland to where the locals dine.
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Misery
Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 10th, 2022The stage adaptation of "Misery" is running through Oct. 30 in a mesmerizing production through Oct. 30. The play is faithful to the source material, Stephen King's 1987 novel about a romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan. "Misery" takes place in the late 1980's in a small Colorado town.
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Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt
Family Secrets Brilliantly Revealed
By: - Oct 10th, 2022The playwright Tom Stoppdard’s mother, his only connection to his earliest life, born in Czechoslovakia and traveled to Singapore and then to England. She did not discuss her Jewish origins. Growing up in Britain, Stoppard asked her to write the family story. He gave her a beautiful notebook, which she returned. She would scribble the bare outlines in a small cheap exercise book. Now he fleshes the story out on stage in New York.
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Seascape By Edward Albee
Gamely Directed by Eric Hill for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 02nd, 2022Leapin Lizards! Berkshire Theatre Group has mounted Seascape Edward Albee's absurdist answer to Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. Albee, one of America's leading playwrights won a Pulitizer for it (one of three) but it was a flop with critics and audiences. The Broadway run ended after just 65 performances. Hit or miss you can draw your own conclusions based on the production directed by Eric Hill.
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The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti
Produced by Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Although Donizetti concocted this superficially light-hearted confection, “Elixir” is a serious delight from curtain to curtain, both as an entertainment and as a great work of composition. As we have come to expect, Livermore Valley Opera once again punches above its weight with a totally appealing production that hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively.
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Experiments in Opera Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Everything for Dawn TV Series Format
By: - Oct 06th, 2022Experiments in Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The statistics for artistic involvement are impressive. EiO has commissioned 85 new works from 55 composers collaborating with over three hundred performers, designers, and directors from the New York City artists community. Now they present opera in TV series format on All Arts.
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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
MoCA World Premiere Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow
By: - Oct 04th, 2022Groundbreaking choreographer Shamel Pitts doesn’t dance around big issues—instead, he dances into them.
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4000 Miles
Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida
By: - Oct 04th, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in Southeast Florida will open its 2022-23 season with "4000 Miles." The comedy-drama by Amy Herzog was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. PBD's production will run from Oct. 14-30, with preview performances on Oct. 12 and 13.
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Cate Blanchett Becomes an Orchestra Conductor
Todd Field's Film Opens New York Film Festival
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Cate Blanchett is an orchestra conductor Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s new film Tár, which premiered at the New York Film Festival. Anyone who has been exposed to Blanchett's performance will be eager to see her latest, mind-blowing work. This is also an opportunity for the unexposed to be introduced. Blanchett is an actress who will always take a dare and push herself beyond perceived limits.
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MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist
The artist Will Develop New Work in 2022-23
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT. The appointment, hosted by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) will begin this fall.
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Herman Melville and the Berkshires
60,000,000 Copies of Moby-Dick Have Been Published
By: - Sep 29th, 2022By the 1930s, Herman Melville's novel became an example of Great American Writing and was studied in many University English Programs. The interest in Herman Melville continues such that since his death on this day (September 29) in 1891, more than 60,000,000 copies of MOBY-DICK have been published around the world!
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Indecent by Paula Vogel
San Francisco Playhouse and Co-produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble,
By: - Oct 01st, 2022The genesis of “Indecent” begins in Warsaw in 1906. Young author Sholem Asch has written a Yiddish play called “God of Vengeance,” which acts as a play-within-a-play in “Indecent,” as scenes from the former appear throughout the latter. Portrayed passionately and with grand gestures by Billy Cohen, Asch entreats other writers to participate in a table reading. After the reading, I. L. Peretz, Warsaw’s most distinguished Yiddish author, tells Asch to burn the play. Despite contentiousness and only a modicum of support, a Yiddish language company produces the play.
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Grace Kelly and U Conn Jazz Ensemble
Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass
By: - Oct 01st, 2022All signs point to a full house for Grace Kelly’s evening of big band music. The young lion of jazz headlines with the University of Connecticut Jazz Ensemble on Sunday evening, Oct. 9.
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volksbuehne.com ~ Berlin
Ophelia's Got Talent
By: - Sep 28th, 2022An amazing theatrical performance took place at the stage of the Volksbuehne, Berlin. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger made her newest work „Ophelia's Got Talent“ into a show that stretched the technical abilities of the theatre to the fullest.
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All of Me by Laura Winters at Barrington Stage
World Premiere for Award Winning Drama
By: - Sep 26th, 2022In 2017, Madison Ferris was the first disabled actor on Broadway as Laura in Glass Menagerie. This astonishing performer stars in All of Me by Laura Winters. By Laura Winters. It is having a World Premiere of the Burman New Play Award Winner at Barrington Stage Company.
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Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven
Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Opera Philadelphia and the Obvious Agency present a choreographed Raven, based on Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue. The audience is transported by the fantastic music and dance.
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Rachel Linsky Debuts Dance Hidden
Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box Theater
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Boston-based contemporary dance artist Rachel Linsky debuts “Hidden,” the latest in her ongoing choreographic series ZACHOR that seeks to preserve stories of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. “Hidden” is inspired by the story of Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster who at 10 years old was hidden from the Nazis in a Polish family’s attic for two years.
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Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues By Charles Smith
Decades Old Play Revised for Shakespere & Company
By: - Sep 27th, 2022For its fall production Shakespeare & Company is presenting the revised, heart-warming, one act play Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues by Charles Smith. We left with many pull-out talking points about vaudeville, ragtime, aging, racism, welfare and most importantly the never ending human comedy.
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Renovated Huntington Theatre Reopens
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Huntington announces the casting and creative team for the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, directed by Lili-Anne Brown. Wilson’s masterpiece serves as the inaugural production of the newly renovated Huntington Theatre and runs from October 14 – November 13, 2022, with digital access to the filmed performance available until November 27, 2022.
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Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022But, oh, that music. Those haunting melodies and the euphonic lilt of the language produce a signature Russian experience. It should be no surprise that this is currently the world’s most produced Slavic opera, given its many attractions. Happily, it remains in the repertory of San Francisco Opera, which offers a striking and highly enjoyable rendition.
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MFA Free on Monday, October 10
Indigenous People’s Day
By: - Sep 28th, 2022On Monday, October 10, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), offers free admission and activities all day as part of an annual Indigenous People’s Day celebration. Visitors are invited to enjoy music and dance, drop in on a variety of engaging family art-making activities, and explore galleries showcasing 20th-century Native art from the Southwest as well as Indigenous artworks from across the U.S. and Canada
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