The Downtown Urban Arts Festival Reveals 22nd Season Award Winners
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 1, 2024
The Downtown Urban Arts Festival celebrated its 22nd season with a diverse lineup of performances, including works by Savion Glover and Reg E. Gaines, and a special event for James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues. Learn more about the winners!
In LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Sets and Puppetry Navigate Its Dark Themes
by Jude Cartalaba - Jul 26, 2024
The Sandbox Collective's production of 'Little Shop of Horrors,' Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s 'bloodthirsty' musical comedy set in the ‘60s is directed by Toff De Venecia. In this production, De Venecia teams up with scenographer Mio Infante and the puppet designer Kayla Teodoro.
Review: BLUETS, Royal Court
by Alexander Cohen - May 27, 2024
Katie Mitchell returns to the Royal Court with a curious but dense adaption of Maggie Nelson's poetry
BRASILIENSIS RAINFOREST to Play Goethe-Institut Boston in June
by Blair Ingenthron - May 26, 2024
The Goethe-Institut Boston has invivted artist and performer Anita Ekman, together with musician Patrick Angello, for a presentation and concert that unites Contemporary Art and the Challenge of Reframing the Imagery of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in the Brazilian Amazon (COP-30).
Bard Music Festival Presents BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD In August
by A.A. Cristi - May 2, 2024
This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.
FAUST Comes to the Paris Opera This September
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2024
Faust comes to Paris Opera this September. Selling his soul to the devil for eternal youth is Faust’s – inevitably risky – gamble. By joining forces with the diabolical Mephistopheles, the elderly scholar recovers a youthfulness that allows him to win over the beautiful Marguerite, but at what cost?
Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE Comes to SummerScape
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2024
As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical grand opera in which religion, politics, and power collide.