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Steinberg/ATCA Finalists Named
Lauded New Work in the Spotlight
By: - Apr 09th, 2020Critics Association's new play committee has picked six finalists for new play award. The top prize is $25,000, while runners-up receive $7,500 each. The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) began honoring new plays since 1977. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has funded the Steinberg/ATCA honor since 2000. Past honorees have included playwrights such as August Wilson and Arthur Miller.
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American Symphony Orchestra
Program to Stream Past Performances
By: - Apr 09th, 2020The internet is full of wonderful concerts and operas, some streamed-live and others are reprisals of deserving performances you'll want to hear if you missed them live or appreciate an opportunity for a reprise.
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Pauline Oliveros' Tuning Meditations
Music on the Rebound Gives New Meaning to Cinq a Sept
By: - Apr 12th, 2020Tuning Meditation is presented by Ione, who lived with the composer, and Music on the Rebound. Participants from 30 countries joined on Zoom to listen for their own notes and others. Find a pitch that no one else is sounding. Tod Machover, America's most wired composer, was there. So too, quietly, piano and composing phenom Conrad Tao. The celebrated and willing joined together in unique sounds.
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Former ICA Director Sydney Roberts Rockefeller
Recalling Events 1973-1974
By: - Apr 15th, 2020Then 27 the Institute of Contemporary Art was the first of many boards that Sydney Roberts Rockefeller joined. Director Andrew C. Hyde quit not long after the beginning of his second term. Left in the lurch was a planned conference on public art. When she stepped up to rescue the conference the board made her director. She was on site during the renovation of 955 Boylston Street. It was designed and largely funded by the architect Graham Gund.
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Curator James Manning
Overview of Boston's Artists and Alternative Galleries
By: - Apr 17th, 2020For decades artist, curator, installer James Manning has covered Boston's emerging artists and alternative galleries. Other than when Bill Arning was at MIT List nobody has made a greater effort to interact with emerging artists and their galleries. He had his own gallery Art Vigor in East Boston and was director of Gallery FX, a pioneer of the SOWA art district. This activity was rarely covered by the mainstream media. This is an attempt to document a vibrant era . From 2008 until his death in 2018 Manning worked with curator Joe Ketner at Emerson College.
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Broadway Actor Nick Cordero
Suffers Complications of Coronavirus
By: - Apr 19th, 2020Tony nominated Broadway actor, Nick Cordero, is recovering after having his right leg amputated following Coronavirus complications.
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This Week at Jacob's Pillow
Celebrating Earth Day
By: - Apr 22nd, 2020A unique asset of Jacob's Pillow is its bucolic setting in the Berkshire woods. This week, on line, you can celebrate both dance and Earth Day. Here is an invitation from executive and artistic director, Pamela Tatge.
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Drama Desk Awards
The Show Goes On with Annual Ceremony
By: - Apr 26th, 2020The Drama Desk Award's nominees have been announced. This year's ceremony will take place as a special presentation. The annual event honors outstanding achievement by theater artists.
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ArtsFloAtHome from Thire France
Les Arts Florissants Perform Spring Festival Virtually
By: - Apr 26th, 2020William Christie's and Paul Agnew's Les Arts Florissants is skipping their US tour. In any case, tickets to their events are quickly snapped up. Fortunately these two Baroque specialists have arranged to present their spring festival virtually. It is a treat so far. Past performances are available. Future ones can be seen live or at your leisure.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
Update on Altered Programming
By: - Apr 30th, 2020A letter from Berkshire Jazz director Ed Bride. With some adjustments the music will continue.
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Berkshire Cartoonist Howard Cruse
Stuck Rubber Baby's 25th Anniversary Edition
By: - May 01st, 2020Howard Cruse was a pioneering gay cartoonist and Berkshire neighbor. He passed away last year. His legendary Stuck Rubber Baby is having its 25th anniversary edition. The publication will be available this summer.
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Ethiopia: Part One
Addis Ababa, Aksum, Lalibela
By: - May 01st, 2020Ethiopia is a wondrous land of majestic mountains, ancient cultures, beautiful people and architectural treasures. Addis Ababa, the modern capital city; Aksum, the one time capital of the ancient Aksumite Empire, and the holy city of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with eleven rock-hewn churches, leave one with indelible memories.
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Streaming Theatre
What's Free This Weekend
By: - May 02nd, 2020With theatres closed for the pandamic many are posting their performances on the internet. Here are some productions for free viewing this weekend.
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Opera Philadelphia Digital Festival O
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman Create Digital Opera
By: - May 01st, 2020The world premiere of Denis and Katya took place last fall at Opera Philadelphia Festival 2019. Philip Venables is a riveting composer of opera. This work succeeded less well on stage than it does as the opening presentation of this Digital Festival.
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Corna Cookbook: Cod
Food and Wine Critic Phil Kampe
By: - May 04th, 2020Food, wine and travel writer Phil Kampe is a superb home cook. Hunkered down in the Berkshires he creates intutitive responses to family recipes and extrensive travel with Maria Reveley. We have much enjoyed his masterful cuisine.
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Gallery Naga On Line Only
Nicole Chesney and Rick Fox
By: - May 04th, 2020To mark the beginning of another month in this surreal and uncertain time, Gallery NAGA will present the third solo exhibition of glowing, ephemeral paintings by Nicole Chesney and luscious, Irish landscapes on paper by Rick Fox.
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Carona Cookbook: Lunch
Carl Chiarenza's Soup and Sandwich
By: - May 04th, 2020Carl Chiarenza is a renowned photographer and art historian. This is what he had for lunch in Rochester.
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Corona Cookbook: Ramps
Kampe Ramping Up
By: - May 05th, 2020There is a narrow two week window when foraging for ramps. Both the leaves and bulb of this member of the onion family are unique. Each year Phil Kampe returns to his secret spot for a culinary treat.
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Composer Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer
Propulsive, Hummable Opera, The Central Park Five
By: - May 05th, 2020Anthony Davis wrote for dance first, so he sees his music as driving action. To the traditional forms of European opera, he brings the music of his people, African Americans. Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington are honored in his work. He likes to provide for improvisation, so that each performance is unique. The Central Park Five premiered in Long Beach Opera last year.
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Theatre and the New Normal
The View from My Sofa
By: - May 06th, 2020Since we have to do without live theater for the foreseeable future, however, theater on my sofa can be an excellent replacement.
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Corona Cookbook: Baked Cod
At Home with Artist Susan Nichter
By: - May 06th, 2020Artist Susan Nichter shares another way to cook cod.
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Corona Cookbook: Leg of Lamb
Marinated Over Night
By: - May 07th, 2020This preparation of boneless leg of lamb entails overnight marination. The Greeks prefer to serve it fully cooked.
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About My Painting by Pieter de Hooch
A Woman Seated by a Window with a Child in the Doorway
By: - May 07th, 2020I look to a painting on my wall by the 17th century Dutch painter, Pieter de Hooch. It is a domestic scene of a mother calmly peeling turnips in a corner while a child enters the threshold carrying a flask and a plate, smiling down at a little dog looking up in anticipation. I am relieved.
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Corona Cookbook: Congee
With Cubed Potato and Cabbage
By: - May 07th, 2020While Pippy Giuliano is a vegetarian she superbly prepares meat for her husband Yuri. This is a breakfast or dinner that they both enjoy.
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Corona Cookbook: Baked Splatchcock Chicken
Cooking from Old Cape Cod
By: - May 08th, 2020Erica is an artist/ photographer who lives on Cape Cod. We keep up with her on Facebook.
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