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The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall
Adventures in Music
By: - May 10th, 2022The 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.
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Rose Art Museum
Four Major Acquisitions
By: - May 09th, 2022The Rose Art Museum announced the acquisition of four significant works that will enter the museum’s permanent collection. Purchased with funds from the museum’s endowment, the most recent acquisitions include Jeffrey Gibson’s BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (2021), Barkley L. Hendricks’s photograph Self Portrait with Black Hat (1980–2013), Peter Sacks’s mix-media work Without Name (2020), and Marie Watt’s Forerunner (2020)
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The English Concert at Carnegie Hall
Harry Bicket Delights with Handel
By: - May 11th, 2022Long before Richard Powers wrote the mega bestseller "Overstory" celebrating man’s relationship with trees, Handel wrote one of the most beautiful arias in the history of song. The cruel King Serse (Xerxes in Plutarch) opens the opera named for him with an aria celebrating a tree’s understory, its shade. Emily D’Angelo, a glorious mezzo who has graduated from Cinderella’s Prince to a role as King this season, was masterful in her presentation of this love song to a tree. To be sure, it’s a bit weird. So too the tangled love relationships in this opera.
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Come to the Berkshires This Summer!
New Amtrak Trains
By: - May 08th, 2022Amtrak 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.
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The Belle of Amherst
This Time in Front of a Live Audience.
By: - May 09th, 2022Palm 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.
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Igor Levit and the NYPhil at Carnegie Hall
Brahms and Bartok Dramas Unfold
By: - May 08th, 2022The New York Philharmonic returned to Carnegie Hall, its home until 1962, for a splendid concert. Both works performed reference death. Brahms had been close to Robert Schumann, who died during the composition of the composer’s 1st piano concerto. Bartok himself was deathly ill when he wrote the Concerto for Orchestra at a Saranac Lake health resort.
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Refrigertor Poetry Visual Archive
May On LIne Exhibition
By: - May 09th, 2022Refrigerator 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.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin'
at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - May 08th, 2022There are stars just waiting to explode into supernovas when Bob Fosse’s Dancin' opens in New York during the 2022-2023 season, as director and musical stager Wayne Cilento (who won the Tony Award for his star turn in the original production) brings his revived and re-imagined production back to New York.
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Alice Childress at Theatre for a New Audience
Brilliant Production Highlights a Formidable Playwright
By: - May 06th, 2022Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) brings us Alice Childress’ 1962 play, Wedding Band. It is set in a South Carolina backyard and the bedroom of Julia Augustine, a Black seamstress who is loud and proud with her neighbors, and a soft and loving companion to a German baker, Herman. He is white. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary of not-being-married,. Miscegenation is banned by law.
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Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet
May at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - May 05th, 2022“Recent Paintings – Alvin Ouellet” is on display for all of May at Images Cinema, 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. He is an Adams-based painter, printmaker and digital artist.
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Nicole Chesney: Albedo
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - May 05th, 2022Gallery 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.
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Sergei Isupov: Past and Present
Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams
By: - May 05th, 2022Ferrin 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.
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American Buffalo by David Mamet
Nick Pepe Makes the Play Live
By: - May 04th, 2022American Buffalo, David Mamet’s great play, is running on Broadway now with a stellar cast. Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss give us Donny, Teach and Bobby, pacing the thrust stage chock full of junk like pieces of junk themselves. Bobby is a junkie. All three men have a false belief that they can alter the downward trajectory of their lives.
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Figuration Reconsidered
Sidelined by the Mainstream Art World
By: - May 05th, 2022The 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.
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Berkshire Mountain Distillers Cultural Cocktails
Toasting the Arts This Summer
By: - May 04th, 2022Participating cultural organizations include Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Berkshire International Film Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Community Access to the Arts, The Clark, Hancock Shaker Village, Jacob’s Pillow, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, MASS MoCA, The Mount, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, The Trustees and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Moltings a Solo Booth with Odessa Straub
NADA NY Booth 5.15
By: - May 04th, 2022Odessa Straub begins with sourcing and collecting materials, some of which have been in her possession for years and others acquired from online sites, thrift stores, junk yards and discarded refuse. Her searching and selection process is as intensive—and playful—as her making.
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Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta
At A Red Orchid Theatre
By: - May 04th, 2022Last 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.
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Guild of Berkshire Artists
Upcoming Events
By: - May 05th, 2022The Guild of Berkshire Artists has upcoming events. The History of Illustration with Bob Horvath. Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel.
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Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out
Broadway Revival at Helen Hayes Theater
By: - May 04th, 2022Take a star baseball player who is talented, thoughtful and charismatic and see what happens when he announces that he is gay. What is the effect on his longtime friend? the locker room? What happens later on when a red-neck rookie is called up from the minor leagues? Does this one announcement cause a championship team to struggle?
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Two Synge One Acts at Irish Rep
Charlotte Moore Captures the Playwright's Spirit
By: - May 02nd, 2022Charlotte 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.
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All’s Well That End Well
At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
By: - May 02nd, 2022All’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.
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A Sense of Place at Real Eyes Gallery
Benefit for Louison House
By: - May 02nd, 2022“A Sense of Place” is a joint effort of North Adams Contemporary (NAC) and Real Eyes Gallery to benefit Louison House. The non profit will received 50% if sales from the exhibition. . NAC is a collaboration of four artists, Debi Pendell, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera.
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Barrington Stage Company
Broadway's Best
By: - Apr 29th, 2022Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces Summer 2022 Events with Broadway’s Best at the Boyd-Quinson Stage and the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.
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BSO's Andris Nelsons to Munich Philharmonic
New Orchestra Replaces BSO
By: - Apr 29th, 2022The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will take over two more concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg on May 20 and 21. The orchestra is filling in for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which had to cancel its entire European tour for this spring due to a major corona outbreak among the musicians*. The Munich Philharmonic is looking forward to these two concerts with Andris Nelson.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival
Swings Into Second Weekend
By: - Apr 27th, 2022The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival is now in full swing (sorry), ushered-in last weekend with the very successful Jam Session at Mission Restaurant. Ten different musicians rotated among the various positions “in the window” at the popular North Street restaurant.
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