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A new, inclusive touring production of "Peter Pan" that does away with stereotypes of Native Americans and women is decked in Miami. History-making Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and director Lonny Price's new version retains the show's charm, energy, and enchanting quality.

I first met Clement Greenberg after Ken (Moffett) invited me to go to Toronto in the summer of 1981 where he and Greenberg were on a panel discussion at the Toronto Art Fair. I accompanied Greenberg and Moffett on their visit to at least 20 artists’ studios in Toronto. It was the best art education of my life!

This provocative installation at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”

Opera Philadelphia is bringing us Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini with a twist one imagines the composer would have liked. The title role of Cio-Cio-San is a two-hander, performed both by soprano Karen Chia-Ling Ho and a puppet created by Hua Hua Zhang.  In Anthony Minghella’s production, the puppet is Cio-Cio-San’s son. Now she is the exterior, public version of Butterfly, the one Lieutenant Pinkerton falls for and seduces and abandons. The director Ethan Heard and designer Yuki Izumihara came up with this notion.

Huang Ruo’s opera, An American Soldier, opens May 12 at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. This flexible theater is built for chamber opera, often the form new operas take.

For under a million dollars, MFA curator Kenworth Moffett, presented Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist to the acquisitions committee. In an epic pratfall the trustees under orders from the new director, Merrill Rueppel, turned it down. In a matter of weeks it was acquired by the National Gallery. The MFA later acquired two works by the abstract expressionist artist. Several years ago a Pollock, now owned by the Norton Museum, sold for $200 million.

The Miro Quartet performed works centered around the theme of “Home” for the Death of Classical series in New York.  In the crypt of a church in Harlem, reverberating in the acoustics of its stone arches, the Quartet sang. This program felt like a homecoming, immediate and warm. 

Goodspeed has turned into The Music Hall Royale, circa 1895, for a thoroughly enjoyable production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. All that is needed is some good British ale.

Solo exhibition of mixed-media by Berkshire-based artist John Clarke on view at Sohn Fine Art in Lenox, MA through the end of July.

In the 1590s, wannabe playwrights Nick and Nigel Bottom fail to compete with theatrical powerhouse Will Shakespeare. Nick consults with soothsayer Nostradamus who tells him that musicals are the coming thing. The outcome is the world's first musical "Omelet." Hmmm.

Whereas Chekhov's 1897 masterpiece balanced humor and pathos, this modernized rendition prioritizes laughs over hard-hitting emotion. Schreck’s interpretation charms audiences with its humor....up to a point. Her Vanya, the titular ‘hero,’ may be amusing, but he lacks heroic dimension.

Ronnie Larsen Presents and Plays of Wilton presents the world premiere production of "Family Tree" by Erin K. Considine. "Family Tree" is a moving and funny play with layers.

Judy Kensley McKie Carving the Surface is the latest exhibition at Gallery NAGA. In the span of four decades she has been been among the most renowned artists of her generation.

Whimsical figurative artist Andrew Stevovich is exhibiting at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass.

Marsha Mason, who stars in this production, feels All My Sons, an early play by Miller, one of his best. I agree. And this production proves it.

The Opera Philadelphia Board of Directors has unanimously approved the appointment of Anthony Roth Costanzo as General Director and President effective June 1, 2024.  A grammy-winning countertenor and creative producer who ”exists to transform opera” Costanzo will shape the future of a company known as “a hotbed of operatic innovation”, overseeing fundraising and business strategies, audience development, community initiatives, and artistic planning.

Usher is an overly introspective wannabe playwright who obsesses over his weight, color, and sexual orientation. In this audacious musical, the central character is surrounded by his thoughts. That is, the other characters are designated as Thought 1 through Thought 6. His internal conflicts and clashes with his parents prompt existential questions that may never be answered.

Lempicka was dud when it workshopped in 2018 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now. with a thud, it has landed on Broadway

This oft revived piece celebrates the smooth sound and close vocal harmonies of male ensembles in the pop era. An unsuccessful pop foursome returns from the dead for one last concert. Along with many songs for multiple voices, the guys sing solos to strut their stuff and pull off comic gags to add to the fun.

Patriots is a compelling drama, written by Peter Morgan, who is not only a talented dramatist. He is a man who can grasp the politics of any situation he undertakes to put on stage. This production is a plain set (Miriam Buther) decorated by shifting lights (Jack Knowles) and composed sound (Adam Cork). You can’t take either mind or ears off it. Rupert Goold directs.

Currently Native American artist, Jeffrey Gibson, is the first to be honored by an exhibition in the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. We first encountered him when he exhibited with Camillo Alvarez in his Boston based Samson Gallery. At the time I was researching and curating Native American art. We met for a studio visit in 2006.

STRIP-TOWER (2023) expands on Gerhard Richter's continued exploration of painting, photography, digital reproduction and abstraction and self-scrutinising approach that have occupied his practice for over six decades.

Tiergarten, a cabaret, opened for three nights in the Grand Hall of St Mary’s Church on the lower East Side of Manhattan. A participant in Carnegie Hall’s deep gaze at the music of the Weimar Republic, hot impresario Andrew Ousley gathered together a group of top-notch performers and a talented design crew to create an ageless event. When the doors close, a mad spirit is unleashed in Willkommen.

This 1996 work was a breakthrough for Spanish language operas. Florencia, an opera singer, is returning to Manaus in the Amazon by boat and to great anticipation. In addition to performing there, she hopes to find her lost lover, a butterfly hunter, who disappeared into the jungle 20 years previous. Traveling incognito, she finds a passenger who has been collecting information for her biography and, unbeknownst to her, a spirit person who bridges the worlds of reality and magic.

Constellations by Nick Payne debuted on the West End in London and also on Broadway. Now it has a production at the Chain Theatre off-Broadway. An innovative new theatre group, The Company We Keep, is mounting the play. The engaging work exists in parallel universes and becomes, as the producers suggest, an immersive experience, suggesting the myriad ways in which each of our life experiences might expand.