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Save on FreshGrass MoCA Tickets
All You Need Is Love and Bluegrass
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Prices for FreshGrass | North Adams increase in two weeks from $129 up to $149—on February 24 at 11:59pm—so snag your tickets now before you miss the chance to save $20 on each!
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The Duration
World Premiere to Open at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
By: - Feb 11th, 2022The Duration, by Bruce Graham, will experience its world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. The production will run from Feb. 16-March 6. The Duration will mark the second play that Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts.
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Ottensamer and Bax Perform at Carnegie Hall
Music as Song Delights
By: - Feb 11th, 2022Alessio Bax and Andrea Ottensamer, two consummate artists, performed together and individually in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. They both seek to help us hear the origins of music as a communicative and an expressive medium. Yet there is nothing ponderous about their approaches.
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Music in Common's Black Legacy Project
At Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre
By: - Feb 11th, 2022On March 6, the Black Legacy Project will make its world premiere at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. The evening includes a preview screening of the documentary short about the Project produced by OUTPOST, a concert, and a community conversation. Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones, Annie Guthrie, Diego Mongue, and Eric Reinhardt are just some of the performers.
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Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: - Feb 14th, 2022Heartbeat Opera is a New York based company committed to making opera for the Now. Years before George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, they adapted Fidelio, Beethoven’s sole opera, to prison life today.
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
At Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Feb 14th, 2022The Williams College Museum of Art presents Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints, on view from February 18 through June 11, 2022. It is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s printmaking to date, including single prints and series, for a total of over 200 individual prints.
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Metropolitan Opera’s Ariadne Auf Naxos
Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12
By: - Feb 15th, 2022The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Ariadne Auf Naxos screens at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 12, at 12:55 pm in the latest installment of The Met: Live in HD.
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Garden Fit on PBS
Combines Gardening and Muscle Mindfulness
By: - Feb 15th, 2022A new public television series premiering March 2022 presents the opportunity for people to take care of their bodies, while taking care of their gardens. ‘GardenFit’ is the first television show to help gardeners lead a healthier lifestyle through mindful movements they can use in the garden—and beyond. An episode was shot in the Berkshires.
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Theatre for a New Audience's Merchant of Venice
John Douglas Thompson Humanizes Shylock
By: - Feb 15th, 2022Shakespeare invites the elevation of Shylock to centrality in Merchant of Venice. Many characters in his play have equal time. Now Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) makes the case for the play as Shylock’s. John Douglas Thompson assumes the role as the ultimate outsider. He is an irresistible actor who quickly overcomes resistance any prior knowledge of the play calls forth
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ORBS: Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA
Installation of Paintings by Jane Hudson
By: - Feb 20th, 2022ORBS by Jane Hudson, a series of 12 paintings on canvas hang on the rough brick walls of Tunnel City Coffee on the Mass MoCA campus. They bring a dynamic energy to the space. The paintings depict orbs of various hues surrounded by bursts of color as radiant beams.
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Side By Side
Curators, Sharon Carson and Betty Vera
By: - Feb 21st, 2022Writing about an exhibition or installation in poetic form is a first for me ~ come see!
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When There Are Nine About Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sally Deering’s Play at Chicago's Pride Arts Center
By: - Feb 22nd, 2022When There Are Nine, a world premiere play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is an entertaining production that tells the public story of the late Supreme Court associate justice. Playwright Sally Deering positions her work as a dream play, taking place in Ginsburg’s mind, where she recalls important moments in her life and how she addressed challenges.
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Today Is My Birthday By Susan Soon He Stanton
At Yale Rep
By: - Feb 24th, 2022While Today Is My Birthday is funny and can be touching, at times you wish author Susan Soon He Stanton had focused the work more. Many of the characters are interesting. Emily’s NYC friend, Halina could be a fascinating character but just when we begin to get involved in why she is doing what she is doing, the voice mail or call ends and we are on to something else.
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A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing
Exhibition at Hancock Shaker Village
By: - Feb 24th, 2022In its first major exhibition on contemporary Asian art, A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing is a campus-wide exhibition opening May 30 at Hancock Shaker Village. The exhibition features three artists—Yusuke Asai of Japan, Kimsooja of Korea, and Pinaree Sanpitak of Thailand – who explore links between 19th century Shaker art and contemporary Asian art.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Seven Solo Exhibitions
By: - Feb 25th, 2022Seven new solo exhibits will open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, March 12. The artists featured are M. Carmen Lane, Roberto Visani, Yvette Molina, Mildred Beltré Martinez, Sachiko Akiyama, Louisa Chase, and Anne Spalter.
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Queen Lear at Gorki Theater - Berlin, Germany
A perhaps foreboding production for Europe/World
By: - Feb 26th, 2022Everything is upside down in this production. A faint semblance to Shakespeare's King Lear remains as in a fever dream, or better yet as a trip beyond borders of human sanity.
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Winter Theatre at Barrington Stage Company
11th annual 10X10 New Play Festival
By: - Feb 28th, 2022During the dead of winter, the arts in Pittsfield come to life with a festival. This is the 11th year of the annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company. The works were selected from some 200 plus submissions many of which trumped Trump.
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Sister Act
A co-production in South Florida
By: - Feb 27th, 2022A co-production of Sister Act is a divine treat in South Florida. MNM Theatre Company, along with North End Theater Company, and the City of Lauderhill are the presenters. "Sister Act," the stage musical, is faithful to the film while offering something fresh and new. The co-production runs through March 6.
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This Bitter Earth at TheaterWorks
A Thought Provoking Play
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022Neil and Jesse are two gay men who meet in NYC in 2012. This Bitter Earth shows us the story of their relationship through 2015.
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Gordon Getty Premiers a New Opera in New York
New York City Opera and Festival Napa Valley Co-Present
By: - Mar 03rd, 2022The opera by Gordon Getty, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, had its New York premiere as an opera reimagined for film. Co-presented by New York City Opera (NYCO) and Festival Napa Valley, Getty’s fourth opera is based on the popular 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips and other stories by James Hilton.
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Schwanda at Komische Oper, Berlin
The Bagpipe Player
By: - Mar 07th, 2022After a slow opening in Praha, Czech Republic, in 1927 Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe player) by Jaromir Weinberger turned into a huge success around the Western World - and before Hitler came to power.
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Verdi's Otello
At Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Mar 07th, 2022Despite its musical and dramatic excellence, “Otello” has never achieved the audience popularity of “Aida” or Verdi’s great middle-period trio of “La Traviata,” “Il Trovatore,” or “Rigoletto,” which are among the most performed operas year after year.
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The Chinese Lady at The Public Theater
Premiere by Barrington Stage Arrives in New York
By: - Mar 07th, 2022The Chinese Lady produced by Ma Yi Theater Company and The Public Theatre has arrived in New York. This production was created for its world premiere by The Barrington Stage Company and Ma Yi. Written by Lloyd Sun, Ralph B. Pena directs. Women’s history month is the occasion for this mounting.
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Berkshire Opera Festival
Three Decembers by Jake Heggie
By: - Mar 08th, 2022Berkshire Opera Festival mounts a new production of THREE DECEMBERS by Jake Heggie as its Second Stage production this year. BOF to partner with PS21, a state-of-the-art green-energy theater in Chatham, NY, which since completing its new theater has evolved into the Hudson Valley's mecca for innovative programming by leading and emerging artists in contemporary music. It will be staged July 21 & 23 at PS21 in Chatham, NY.
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Clark Art Institute
Free on Sunday April 3
By: - Mar 09th, 2022The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sunday Free program continues on Sunday, April 3, offering free admission to the galleries and special exhibitions from 10 am–5 pm, along with a series of special activities. April’s theme is “Photography.” As a part of the Clark’s special programs, visit a pop-up installation of early photography in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper from 11 am–1 pm, enjoy art-making in the Clark Center’s lower lobby from 1–4 pm, then bring along a camera (phone cameras work just fine) and head outdoors to join a guided hike from 2:30–4 pm to learn best practices for photographing nature.
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