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  • All’s Well That End Well

    At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 02nd, 2022

    All’s Well That End Well is based on a tale from Boccaccio’s The Decameron. (It was tale  9 of day 3: the story of Giletta di Narbona.) Like a few other Shakespeare plays, All’s Well is considered a problem play, suggesting that it involves complex ethical issues that can’t be dealt with by simple solutions. Most scholars believe that Thomas Middleton, a noted playwright of his time, either collaborated with Shakespeare on the play or revised it later.

  • Two Synge One Acts at Irish Rep

    Charlotte Moore Captures the Playwright's Spirit

    By: Susan Hall - May 02nd, 2022

    Charlotte Moore must have the same feeling for the Irish and their language that the playwright John Milington Synge did. In the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theater, a small venue located underneath the main house at the Irish Repertory Theatre, the people of Ireland are brought startlingly, truly to life. Two Synge One Acts abut each other.  As audience in this theater, you are so close that you feel a part of the action, the language invades and elevates you.  It is a thrilling experience.

  • Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta

    At A Red Orchid Theatre

    By: Nancy Bishop - May 04th, 2022

    Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere. 

  • Figuration Reconsidered

    Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World

    By: Martin Mugar - May 05th, 2022

    The artists Martin Mugar and the late Addison Parks often engaged in lively discourses about issues in contemporary art. This is reposted from Mugar's blog Painting from July 16, 2012. Arguably the content is still relevant; particularly in Boston where aspects of figuration have morphed from the Boston Expressionists of the 1930s through the present. The Museum of Fine Arts is currently presenting the controversial Ku Klux Klan paintings of Philip Guston who taught at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Guston found a haven in Boston while on the lam and shunned as reactionary by the NY art world.

  • Nicole Chesney: Albedo

    On View at Gallery NAGA

    By: NAGA - May 05th, 2022

    Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body. 

  • Sergei Isupov: Past and Present

    Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams

    By: Ferrin - May 05th, 2022

    Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present the solo exhibition by  internationally renowned sculptor, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT at our North Adams gallery. Isupov's new series of ceramic sculptures are overseen by a multi-dimensional, mixed-media wall installation that reflects on the past and considers the present by an artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive

    May On LIne Exhibition

    By: Perri Neri - May 09th, 2022

    Refrigerator Poetry is pleased to present the May 2022 Visual Art online group exhibition organized by archive director, Perri Neri. Refrigerator Poetry can be defined as a multiplicity of voices being created out of the experiences being had in the moment. The artists in this month’s exhibition come to us from all over the world with work completed since 2020. Stylistically diverse and from different generations and circumstances, these artists offer brilliant connections of our collective human existence.  

  • The Belle of Amherst

    This Time in Front of a Live Audience.

    By: Aaron Krause - May 09th, 2022

    Palm Beach Dramaworks, which co-produced 'The Belle of Amherst' last year, will remount the production in front of a live audience. Last year, the pandemic prevented audience members and performers from being in the same space. The remount will run from May 20-June 5.

  • Come to the Berkshires This Summer!

    New Amtrak Trains

    By: Amtrak - May 08th, 2022

    Amtrak just launched a new seasonal service that will make it easier to enjoy the quaint towns and majestic views of Massachusetts' Berkshires. The new route, called the Berkshire Flyer, will shuttle passengers between New York City and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, beginning July 8 and operate on weekends throughout the summer.

  • Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage Company

    10th Anniversary of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center

    By: Barrington - May 10th, 2022

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), celebrates the 10th Anniversary and Re-Opening of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with Broadway’s Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, Hamilton, Carousel) in an Encore Concert, Joshua Henry Up Close, on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m.

  • The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall

    Adventures in Music

    By: Susan Hall - May 10th, 2022

    The T?N orchestra will perform an adventuresome program twice in New York, this week and next.  They will feature the works of William Grant Still, Carlos Chávez, Witold Lutoslaski and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.  

  • Phil Kline Coming to MASS MoCA

    Bang on a Can Member is a Musical Omnivorei

    By: Susan Hall - May 17th, 2022

    Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music over three days throughout the museum’s expansive campus. Phil Kline will be featured.  With Jim Jarmsuch he will be improvising on loud guitar,

  • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

    Four Finalists for Design for Espace Riopelle

    By: Riopelle - May 19th, 2022

    The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is moving a step closer to the realization of the future Espace Riopelle with the unveiling of the candidates selected by the jury to move on to the final stage of the architectural design competition launched last March.

  • Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)

    By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre

    By: v - May 19th, 2022

    I know.  Your first question will be “What’s with that name?”  Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play.  It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative. 

  • Large Works by Philip Malicoat

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum

    By: PAAM - May 20th, 2022

    Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is pleased to present Philip Malicoat: Large Works. On view June 10 - July 24, the exhibition is curated by two of the artist's granddaughters, Breon Dunigan and Robena Malicoat. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 10 from 6-8pm.   

  • Puppetopia Festival at HERE

    Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents

    By: Susan Hall - May 21st, 2022

    The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama  Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year.  its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program.  Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022.  Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.

  • The Elliot Norton Awards

    Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association

    By: BTCA - May 23rd, 2022

    The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,

  • Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame

    Produced by West Bay Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - May 24th, 2022

    Despite the difficulty of casting Russian language opera, two are present in the American repertoire, “Eugene Onegin” and “Pique Dame” (“Queen of Spades” in English).  Although the former premiered 11 years earlier than the latter, they share the same DNA, including source material derived from Alexander Pushkin.

  • Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull

    At Chicago's Steppenwolf

    By: NAGA - May 25th, 2022

    Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.

  • installation by Azza El Siddique

    At MIT List Visual Arts Center

    By: List - May 25th, 2022

    This summer, the MIT List Visual Arts Center debuts a site-specific installation by Azza El Siddique. The exhibition, which runs from June 30 to September 4, is the artist’s first solo museum presentation and marks the 25th exhibition in the List Projects series, which began in 2013.

  • Fredric T. Schneider Gift to Peabody Essex Museum

    Major Collection of Japanese cloisonne enamel

    By: PEM - May 26th, 2022

    “The gift to PEM of Fredric Schneider’s comprehensive collection establishes the museum as an international center for the study and appreciation of Japanese cloisonné enamel. His carefully-curated gift also includes collections of ephemera, photographs, rare books, interviews with Japanese specialists and other research materials, all of which will serve as tremendous resources for future scholars at PEM’s Phillips Library,” noted Karina H. Corrigan,

  • Faerie Festival Returns on June 18

    North Adams Event Honors Phil Sellers

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 27th, 2022

    Artist activist, Phil Sellers and his wife Gail were part of the team behind the Faerie Festival in North Adams. He passed away in July 2020. After a hiatus The Faerie Festival is revised in his honor on June 18 from 10 AM to 10 PM.

  • Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad

    MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.

    By: S&Co - May 27th, 2022

    Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.

  • Portland Museum of Art to Expand

    Launches Design Competition

    By: PMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, announced today the launch of an international design competition for its campus unification and expansion.

  • Williams College Museum of Art Expands

    SO-IL Architects Selected

    By: WCMA - Jun 01st, 2022

    SO-IL architects selected to design the first stand-alone building for the Williams College Museum of Art. New facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will transform the museum’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community and the Berkshires cultural region.

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