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Huntington Theatre 2021
Season Starts in Late August
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Huntington announces the return to live, in-person performances following an incomparable year-and-a-half of stages left dark because of the global pandemic. The 7-play season will begin on August 27, 2021 and take place primarily at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End while The Huntington Theatre undergoes a transformational renovation; one production will take place at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Bard's TON Orchestra Performs Live
Leon, Bernstein, Stravinsky and Mendelssohn
By: - Apr 15th, 2021The Orchestra Now presented its first live concert of the 2020-21 season at the Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. It was a smashing success.
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New Directions: The Cover Story
Pioneer Designer Alvin Lustig’s Fifty Best Book Covers In One Box
By: - Apr 16th, 2021The great graphic designer Milton Glaser once said, “there are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW!” WOW! is what you’ll say to New Directions’ newly assembled set of fifty postcards celebrating its greatest salesman, Alvin Lustig—a creative genius who revolutionized the craft of book-cover design. Each of the postcards in this glorious collection is a work of art in its own right.
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Hemingway on PBS
An Enigma Wrapped in Mystery
By: - Apr 18th, 2021Hemingway was an enigma wrapped in a mystery that could always get away with things that ordinary people could or word never do. He relished his celebrity status to the hilt and he was a party-going charmer when he needed to be. He was envied by men, and was desired by women from afar. In his twenties he had matinee idol looks, and worked them to his advantaged.
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Amazons Among Us by Donna Dodson
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Apr 19th, 2021The world needs new heroines, and Dodson creates them for this exhibition. In her new series of wood sculptures, Dodson re-imagines Albrecht Durer’s “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” as Amazon warriors.
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Huntington Theatre World Premiere
Black Beans Project to Live Stream
By: - Apr 21st, 2021The Huntington presents Black Beans Project, a world premiere digital work by Huntington artist-in-residence Melinda Lopez and award-winning performer Joel Perez, directed by Jaime Castañeda, and available for on-demand streaming from May 11 – 30, 2021.
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Bang on a Can
OneBeat Marathon Live Online Sunday, May 2,
By: - Apr 21st, 2021Bang on a Can announces the hourly schedule for the second OneBeat Marathon – Live Online – on Sunday, May 2, 2021 from 12pm - 4pm EDT, curated by Found Sound Nation, its social practice and global collaboration wing. Over four hours the OneBeat Marathon will share the power of music and tap into the most urgent and essential sounds of our time. From the Kyrgyz three-stringed komuz played on the high steppe, to the tranceful marimba de chonta of Colombia's pacific shore, to the Algerian Amazigh highlands and to the trippy organic beats of Bombay’s underground scene – OneBeat finds a unifying possibility of sound that ties us all together.
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Victoria Bond Presents Cutting Edge Music
Glass, Warren, von Kampen and Bond Featured
By: - Apr 22nd, 2021We are rooted in the Byzantine chant in this evening’s concert. Pianist Paul Barnes chants in the Greek Orthodox service. As an introduction to each based on specific chants, he sang. We first heard the tones mixed with breath and feeling of these remarkable interpretations of the psalms. Listeners are able to slip into the works with echoes of their origins fresh in the memory.
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A Letter To Harvey Milk: The Musical
Coming Out in San Francisco
By: - Apr 23rd, 2021A Letter to Harvey Milk had a successful run at the Acorn Theatre in New York in 2018. It is streming free with suggested donations for the Actor’s Fund and The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Now it is streaming live.
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American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University
Return Engagement of The Conjurors’ Club
By: - Apr 27th, 2021American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces today the ensemble of magicians to perform in the return engagement of The Conjurors’ Club created by Vinny DePonto and Geoff Kanick. Back by popular demand, the live interactive multi-magician experience runs online April 28 - May 16, 2021.
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Peter Brooke at Gallery Naga
Light Slides
By: - Apr 28th, 2021Peter Brooke: Light Slides will open to the public on Friday, April 30. Due to Covid-19 precautions, there will be no public reception for the artist. The artist will be present on May 15 and 22 from 1-4pm to chat with visitors. Gallery NAGA’s hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, with no appointment necessary. Brooke’s paintings are fabrications based solely on memories of his travels and surroundings.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
Fundraiser on June 5
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Seats and tables are now available for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s annual fundraiser, to be held outdoors under a tent at the Bas Relief Park behind Provincetown Town Hall on Saturday, June 5 at 4pm Eastern.
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FreshGrass at MASS MoCA
Tenth Annual Festival
By: - Apr 29th, 2021FreshGrass features bluegrass traditionalists and innovators on four stages and platforms throughout the museum’s 16-acre campus. Festival programming also includes FreshScores, a silent film with original live music; FreshGrass commissions and world premieres; instrument and industry workshops; pop-up performances and retail; and local Berkshire food and spirits vendors.
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Tru at Music Theatre of Connecticut
Jeff Gurner Plays Truman Capote
By: - May 01st, 2021Jeff Gurner plays Truman Capote in this production directed by Kevin Connor. Guner does not hide Capote’s self-destructive tendencies and he manages to keep Capote from sounding like a whiner. On some level, he makes us see and feel Capote’s pain.
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The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
Manhattan Theatre Club and The Huntington Live Stream
By: - May 03rd, 2021Manhattan Theatre Club in association with The Huntington presents the virtual premiere of The Niceties, written by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Kimberly Senior. The presentation reunites the original stars Lisa Banes and Jordan Boatman, and has been reimagined for the virtual stage since its original production in MTC’s 2018-2019 Season at The Studio at Stage II.
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The Orchestra Now at Bard
Maestro Leon Botstein Celebrates Beethoven
By: - May 03rd, 2021The Orchestra Now opened its belated celebration of Beethoven’s birthday. Their performance of the Fifth Symphony lay somewhere between the unearthly suggestion the composer may have intended, and a fierce protest. From the introduction of iconic Da, da, da, DUM, either a major or minor key although we’re told this is a minor piece, to the figure's infinite variety of repetition through the piece, TON reminds us of why this is the symphony of symphonies.
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WAM Theatre 2021
Madeline Sayet’s Solo Show Where We Belong
By: - May 06th, 2021WAM Theatre will present a special limited run of Madeline Sayet’s solo show, WHERE WE BELONG, directed by Mei Ann Teo. This Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company film adaptation, produced in partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, is filming now at Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C., and will be available for digital streaming through WAM Theatre June 24-27, 2021 only.
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The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In
San Francisco Opera
By: - May 09th, 2021The experiment continues. San Francisco Opera broke new ground with their production of “Barber of Seville” – live performances of an opera at a “drive-in” with music delivered by FM radio to patrons seated in their vehicles. Now the company’s resident artists, the Adler Fellows, are giving their annual concert series at the same venue, the beautiful and versatile, Frank Lloyd Wright designed Marin Center.
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Two Sisters and a Piano
By New Normal Rep
By: - May 10th, 2021In Two Sisters and a Piano, two sisters in 1991 Cuba “escape” their time under house arrest through music and by hearing and speaking heartfelt words. This play, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz, is streaming through May 23 at NewNormalRep.org. New Normal Rep was founded during the pandemic. The company aims to digitally present new and lesser-known plays from diverse perspectives.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
George St. Playhouse in New Jersey
By: - May 14th, 2021The 90 minute performance, consists of three “readers” here given names if not characters asking her questions, sometimes challenging her and hearing her answers. No real conversations among characters, no real context for their questions or problems and no real solutions.
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Slam! Bang! Wham!
Elizabeth Streb Returns to Jacob's Pillow
By: - May 16th, 2021Elizabeth Streb, the high-octane choreographer known for such risk-taking --and horrifying - feats as setting herself on fire, crashing through glass, and walking down the outside of very tall buildings (London’s City Hall,) returns to the Pillow with her Extreme Action Company for the first time in twenty years.
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Legacy Theatre in Branford Connecticut
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park
By: - May 22nd, 2021The brand new Legacy Theatre in Branford opened with a production of the first big Neil Simon hit, Barefoot in the Park which runs through Sunday, May 23.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wins Drama League Award
Production is New York-bound
By: - May 23rd, 2021Miami New Drama's production of Seven Deadly Sins won a Drama League Award on Friday. The Drama League Awards have recognized outstanding achievements on and off Broadway since 1935. Seven Deadly Sins won in a new category -- “Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater.”
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Diane Reed Sawyer: Isolation Expanse
Real Eyes Gallery in Adams
By: - May 23rd, 2021For the past year during the Covid-19 epidemic the Berkshire based Real Eyes Gallery suspended its program. That has resumed with an exhibition by Diane Reed Sawyer: Isolation Expanse. There will be a reception for the artist on May 25 from 5 to 7 PM. The Adams based gallery is regarded as one of the best venues in the region and is noted for its commitment to the artists of its rich and diverse community.
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An 'Annie' for Today
Miami's Area Stage Company's Fresh Production
By: - May 26th, 2021They promise an 'Annie' like you've never seen. Area Stage Company in Miami will mount the much-loved musical on weekends from June 11-July 4. This 'in-the-round' production will feature an all-adult cast of eight actors.
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