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Der Rosenkavalier
Santa Fe Opera's Delightful Strauss/von Hofmannsthal Comic Opera
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Impoverished Baron Ochs wishes to marry Sophie, from a nouveau riche family. Through Ochs' cousin The Marschallin, young noble Octavian agrees to present the customary silver rose to the intended bride. But alignments of romance and convenience shift in this thoughtful comedy that is Strauss's most endearing work.
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Staged Reading of St, Germain Play
The Magdalene in Pittsfield
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Barrington Stage Company will present a staged reading of The Magdalene, a new play by Associate Artist Mark St. Germain, on Sunday September 1 at 3:00pm at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
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The Elixir of Love
Donizetti's Frothy Comedy at Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 15th, 2024Poor Nemorino loves rich Adina. We know how those stories go. Nemorino is aided by a placebo. Snake oil salesman Dulcamara has sold him a potion to make him irresistible to Adina. In the end, the hero inherits a fortune, which makes him irresistible to every girl on the planet.
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The Righteous
Outstanding World Premiere Commission from Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 14th, 2024David's life is traced from caring high school friend to pastor committed to good works to politician whose goal is to satisfy constituents rather than his soul and the people closest to him. Along the way, he compromises his own morality and ultimately questions the path he has taken. Many issues of evangelical Christianity and the 1980s surface in this compelling new opera.
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Parsons Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
Ended Joyously with September by Earth Wind & Fire
By: - Aug 12th, 2024For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in 25 years the renowned Parsons Dance presented a diverse program of seven works. It included the legendary Caught as well as two new works. Parsons choreographed five works while the other two were by Jamar Roberts and Robert Battle. They brought all back home with music of Earth Wind & Fire.
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Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione
Soars at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 10th, 2024For a first attempt, however, Frangione is a promising playwright with a great gift for dialogue. On every level this was a delightful performance. The director, Braha, evoked the best from two superbly trained classical actors, Burrows and May, seen here in vernacular form.
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WOW at Carnegie Hall
Youth Orchestras from Around the World
By: - Aug 10th, 2024The series of WOW (World Orchestra Week) concerts at Carnegie opened with Teddy Abrams, maestro of the Louisville Orchestra and winner of Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year award. He conducted the NYO2 Orchestra.
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The Master and Margarita at the 86th Street Theater
Moscow Ambience Is Wonderful
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Alexei Burago has directed Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita at Theatre 86 in New York. Jean Claude Van Italie did this stage adaptation, which follows the novel closely.
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A Shonda in South Florida
World Premiere at The Foundry
By: - Aug 10th, 2024The world premiere production of a musical adaptation of Wendy Graf's play "A Shonda" is underway in South Florida The winning production runs through Sept. 1 at The Foundry in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. This is a visceral production in the intimate Foundry space.
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Derecho at the La Jolla PLayhouse
Timely Take on Identity
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Derecho is the latest work mounted by the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. The play, Derecho, follows two second-generation Latina half-sisters Eugenia and Mercedes, played by Ashley Alvarez and Caro Guzman, respectively.
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Pipe Dream at Unicorn Theatre
Rarely Produced Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical
By: - Aug 08th, 2024Pipe Dream is an obscure, rarely produced musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on novels by John Steinbeck. Berkshire Theatre Group is making a strong and risky case for why we should take another look at a musical with a flawed book but richly compelling music.
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Camille A. Brown at Jacob's Pillow
World Premiere of I Am
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Superstar dancer, choreographer, and Tony nominated director, Camille A. Brown, has a long history with Jacob’s Pillow. Funded by the Hunter Foundation this past winter the company was in residence developing a major new work. It is based on themes from the “I Am” episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Jacob's Pillow was honored to host the world premiere of a game changing work.
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The Prom
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The Prom is not a great musical, but it is an entertaining show that goes way above what is sometimes created.
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Legend of the Ring
West Edge Opera Produces Wagner's Condensed Ring Cycle for a Third Time
By: - Aug 06th, 2024In four operas and over 15 hours of running time, Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle spins historic Germanic legends embellished by the composer's own fancy. David Seaman edited the compendium into a 3 1/2hour condensation. The flavor of Wagner's rich romantic music is retained, but while the general plotline is honored, it is jumpy and loses some continuity. Nonetheless, this piece gives a strong flavor of the highly respected yet controversial body of work.
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Vessels of Slavery: Forget Me Not
Cape Ann Museum Green
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The artists were brought together by the work of Doris Prouty, an African American quilter who made Gloucester her home for nearly 50 years, when her work was exhibited posthumously at the Cape Ann Museum in 2022.
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N/A by Mario Correa at Mitzi Newhouse Theater
Past, Present and Future of US poitics
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Mario Correa’s play N/A is thoroughly entertaining. The two-hander is at the Mitzi Newhouse in New York through September 1. Holland Taylor and Ana Villafane star. Diane Paulus directs.
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Mark St Germain Explores Forgiveness
World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2024Inspired by a newspaper article, Forgiveness is set in Minnesota where prisoners are allowed to plead their case in front of the Governor, in a bid to be returned to society. In this interactive production, audiences help determine who is worthy of forgiveness.
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Bulrusher - The Opera
World Premiere Pulitzer Finalist Play by West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 05th, 2024A black female foundling with a gift for telepathy is becoming a woman. Her world of isolation in a white, northern California town is pierced by the arrival of another young black woman from Alabama. Multiple conflicts ensue among the diverse characters. The lush music appeals and performances are first rate.
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Cape Ann Museum Makeover
Over $18 million in Campaign Commitments
By: - Aug 05th, 2024Building on the generous support of the Museum’s Board, donors, and supporters amid growing momentum for general Museum operations, Director Oliver Barker and Henrietta Gates, Board Chair, announced that the institution has generated over $18 million in campaign commitments. This significant support will fund renovations to its Downtown facility, provide upgrades to the CAM Green campus, enhance programming, and augment the Museum’s endowment.
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The Islanders by Carey Crim
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 01st, 2024Carey Crim has written a slow, intricate two-hander that takes patience to absorb us into the incremental pace of the Island. Director Reggie Life and a superb cast (Michelle Mountain and "ranney") have meticulously involved us in their struggle for meaning and endurance.
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Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award
In Memory of Ted Shawn
By: - Aug 02nd, 2024Jacob’s Pillow presents American dancer and choreographer Roderick George with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. George will accept the award at the outdoor performance by his New York City-based company, kNonAme Artist.
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Norton Gallery in Palm Beach
One of America's Top Regional Museums
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Norton Gallery has been enlarged with a design by Lord Norman Foster. The collection has grown to 8,200 works with five curatorial departments. It took us two days to tour the collection and special exhibitions. The must see Norton is an elite regional museum. It's come a long way from when I visited annually during the 1980s.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo's Masterpiece Works Well as a Stage Musical
By: - Jul 29th, 2024The deformed hunchback Quasimodo has suffered a life of abuse and isolation as the cathedral bell ringer. When he has the chance to interact with other people, he endures scorn from many, but the beautiful Roma girl Esméralda is kind. Quasimodo's cruel guardian Frollo, the Deacon of the Cathedral, who despises the Roma but is smitten by Esméralda, intercedes with unhappy consequences.
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The Prom
At Playhouse on Park
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Prom is worthwhile seeing because of the fine performances and choreography.
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Pamela Palmer by David Ives
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 27th, 2024The highlight of a scaled back Williamstowm Theatre Festival season was the world premiere Pamela Palmer by the renowned playwright David Ives. With a noir approach he would have us accept the improbable. His tale of class struggle is set in the mansion of the unhappy housewife who has hired a detective.
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