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Sweeney Todd on Broadway
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Some may quibble, but I would see this production of Sweeney Todd anytime. It is changing my mind about the show.
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Minimalism at Town Hall
Bryce Dessner Gives the Form Its Full Richness
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Death of Classical, the brilliant music series conceived and curated by Andrew Ousley, was embedded in a Town Hall celebration of Minimalism. It was a spiritual lift of a special order, lighting the path to classical music’s future in neon reds and greens. The lush curtains draped at the back of the stage were bathed alternately in greens and blues and purples.
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Pippin
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts near Ft. Lauderdale has mounted an entertaining and energetic production of "Pippin." The 1972 musical is timely more than 50 years after it premiered on Broadway. PPTOPA's production takes place during the 1960's. Setting the show during that time period makes sense.
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Barrington Stage Company Announces Cast and Crews
The Happiest Man on Earth and Cabaret
By: - Apr 27th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces full casting for the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s new play The Happiest Man on Earth (May 24-June 17) and a new production of the legendary Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret (June 14-July 8).
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
First Retrospective by Native Artist at Whitney Museum
By: - Apr 29th, 2023Now 82, at long last the Native American artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, is the subject of a retrospective at a major New York Museum. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 19 to August 13, 202
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The Sneaky Frank Lloyd Wright
From New Balance
By: - May 01st, 2023Aside from their earth tones, this footwear has nothing to do with Frank Lloyd Wright. As a branding strategy, it is an extremely strange choice for a contemporary sports shoe design.
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The Winter's Tale
At Hartford Stage
By: - May 02nd, 2023The Winter’s Tale can be a confusing play. Written late in Shakespeare’s career, it is usually grouped with The Tempest, Pericles, and Cymbeline, as one of the “romance” plays.
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Hoosic River Watershed Association
Invites Poets and Musicians
By: - May 02nd, 2023Hoosic River Watershed Association (HooRWA) invites poets and musicians in the Hoosic River Watershed to find inspiration and craft a poem, song, or instrumental piece about and for the Hoosic River and/or its tributaries.
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New Play Awards
ATCA Presents Annual Honors
By: - May 09th, 2023The 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award goes to "the ripple, the wave that carried me home." The 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award goes to Madison Fiedler for her play, "Spay." ATCA also presents citations to Suzan-Lori Parks for her play, "Sally & Tom," and Rebecca Gilman for her piece, "Swing State."
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Champion at the Metropoitan Opera
Boxing, Gaydom, Blanchard all in the Mix
By: - May 09th, 2023The Metropolitan Opera’s heavily promoted Champion is concluding its run in New York. The first opera by Terrence Blanchard, which succeeds his Fire in My Bones at the Met, has a weaker score than its successor. One feels that Blanchard as composer of film scores (he is well-known as a colleague of Spike Lee), may have succumbed to the notion that music should lie under the visual track.
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William Flynn: 50 Years 50 Drawings
Boston's HallSpace
By: - May 11th, 2023Flynn has made hundreds, perhaps thousands of drawings over the last 50 years. Choosing just 50 (really 61) drawings is nearly an impossible task. William Flynn is an artist that spends days drawing. He finds ways to express the beauty in mundane objects; an old baseball mitt, ski boots, a bicycle that was run over and flattened, cars at junkyards, an old arm chair, pop-up books, whirly-gigs.
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Live from the Edge
At Long Wharf
By: - May 12th, 2023Live from the Edge by Universes has moments that will reach you emotionally. But the question remains, “What is it?” – Theater? A performance piece? A poetry slam? They describe themselves as a theater company, but I would describe it as being closer to a performance piece/poetry slam than theater.
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Fat Ham by Pulitzer Winner James IJames
American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2023Fat Ham turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet upside down without minimizing the issues the original raises or the brilliance. The play by James IJames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is easy to see why.
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Season Closer at Yale Rep Disappoints
the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson
By: - May 18th, 2023Yes, there are some funny moments and some touching ones, but overall, it is hard to become engaged with the characters. Except for Janice, they appear only in short scenes that allow for little depth of character.
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Cast For Summer Season
Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season,
By: - May 18th, 2023The Season opens May 26 with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, with David Gow and Zoya Martin, outdoors in The Roman Garden Theatre.
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(Not Entirely) Black and White, by Nelson and Fried
Show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
By: - May 20th, 2023This exhibition in North Adams ends on May 29 and so we also introduce the Old Stone Mill Center in Adams, MA, on Rt. 8, outside of downtown, direction to S. Adams. Both are worth a visit!
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This Unique Place: Paintings and Drawings of Jeff Weaver
Stunning Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - May 21st, 2023As a painter Jeff Weaver is a man for all seasons. Some of the most engaging works are winter scenes. It’s the Gloucester that tourists never see. He creates meticulous paintings of weathered, storm battered, Gloucester commercial and residential landmarks. The works document vintage images of a working port and fishing community undergoing a change to an economy based on tourism and a glut of generic condos.
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Barrington Stage Company Gala 2023
Taylor Mac Hosts Night at the Kit Kat Club
By: - May 25th, 2023Hosted by MacArthur Genius-Award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist Taylor Mac, BSC’s Gala will transport attendees to the pre-war Berlin Kit Kat Club for an evening of pleasure featuring a cabaret lineup that will include burlesque artist Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.
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Tracy Jones
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
By: - May 27th, 2023The new comedy "Tracy Jones" is running at the Ft. Lauderdale-area's Island City Stage as the last leg of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. "Tracy Jones," by Stephen Kaplan, is about a lonely woman who throws a party for every other woman in her state also named Tracy Jones. The play highlights loneliness and the human need for connection. .
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Department of Play
New Urban Planning Paradigm
By: - May 27th, 2023An example of Department of Play’s approach was recently on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360’s exhibition At Play. The collective views its mission as fostering group discovery and involvement in the thoughtful (playful?) envisioning of an evolving urban environment.
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Rhiannon Giddens Directs at Ojai
Giddens Tells The Whole Story
By: - May 29th, 2023Each year at the Ojai Festival in California a different Music Director is given the freedom and the resources to imagine four days of musical brainstorming. Ojai’s signature blend of an enchanted setting and an audience voracious in its appetite for challenge and discovery has inspired a distinguished series of musical innovators—from Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky and Jeremy Denk, Dawn Upshaw and Barbara Hannigan. John Adams has directed twice.
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The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - May 31st, 2023The show is based on the novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which was turned into a fine film in 1993 and a more recent film in 2020. The young adult book, as it would now be described, was written in 1911.
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Mark Morris Launches Pillow Season
The Look of Love to Music of Burt Bacharach
By: - May 31st, 2023A longtime Pillow favorite, Mark Morris Dance Group will bring audiences The Look of Love, an homage to the music of the late Burt Bacharach, which had its world premiere in 2022 and which Fjord Review called “a breath of fresh, brilliant, joyous—and much needed—air.” A towering figure of popular music, Bacharach is known for his soaring melodies and unique orchestrations influenced by jazz, rock, and Brazilian music.
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Rare Loan from Acropolis of Athens
Kore on View at Museum of Fine Arts
By: - Jun 05th, 2023About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these dedicated offerings created a forest of shimmering marble women honoring the goddess Athena. One of the finest examples of these objects, known as Kore 670, which rarely leaves the Acropolis Museum, has traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where it is on view through January 8, 2024.
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Pablo Picasso Died FiftyYears Ago
Global Exhibitions and Critical Evaluations
By: - Jun 06th, 2023Pablo Picasso was the most famous and influential artist of the 20th Century. The marking of fifty years from his death has created numerous global exhibitions. Critics have waded in with evaluations that acknowledge the work but deplore the man. Simply put it begs the question. Was Pablo Picasso and asshole?
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