Events
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Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn
Presented by Zeitgeist Stage Company at BCA Plaza Black Box Theatre February 10-March 3, 2012 Ayckbourn's Time of My Life revolves around a family dinner at their favorite restaurant organized by successful businessman Gerry Stratton to celebrate his wife Laura's 54th birthday. Their grown sons are also present with their significant others. It is after the dinner breaks up that Ayckbourn's real genius becomes apparent as the play takes off in three different directions simultaneously. The parents remain in present time, disclosing secrets and redefining their relationship. The...
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Zeitgeist Stage Company |
02/10/12 -
03/03/12 |
BCA Plaza Black Box Theatre, Boston |
Hugh Masekela
Presented by Zeiterion Performing Arts Center at Zeiterion Performing Arts Center February 24, 2012 Hugh Masekela is an innovator in the world music and jazz scene and continues to tour the world as a performer, composer, producer and activist. Masekela’s Grammy® Award-winning hit “Grazing in the Grass” sold over four million copies and made him an international star while his Broadway smash musical Sarafina introduced the sounds and passion of South African music to theatre audiences worldwide.
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Zeiterion Performing Arts Center |
02/24/12 |
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford |
The Rivalry
Presented by Zeiterion Performing Arts Center at Zeiterion Performing Arts Center February 12, 2012 National Tour
LA Theatre Works
Over 150 years ago, Americans struggled with issues of slavery, race, freedom, equality, states’ rights, and America’s future. In the 1858 Illinois Senate race, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas embarked on a series of debates. Their epic clash of ideas and oratory forged a future President and a nation. LA Theatre Works production of The Rivalry is a riveting depiction of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, using dialogue from the original...
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Zeiterion Performing Arts Center |
02/12/12 |
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford |
Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists
Presented by Yiddish Book Center at National Yiddish Book Center October 25, 2011-February 15, 2012 This unique exhibit features more than 80 paintings, drawings, and photographs created by 17 different artists for Isaac Bashevis Singer's (1902-1991) prolific legacy of books and stories. Curator's talk: Thursday, October 27 at 7 PM.
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Yiddish Book Center |
10/25/11 -
02/15/12 |
National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst |
The Salon
Presented by YES.OUI.SI. at Yes.Oui.Si. February 2-March 8, 2012 YES.OUI.SI. is proud to present THE SALON.
Opening February 2nd 6-8pm
Through March 8th
An exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and prints by
Alexa Guariglia
Lena Gustafson
Kira Leigh
Jordan Piantedosi
Stephanie Terelak
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YES.OUI.SI. |
02/02/12 -
03/08/12 |
Yes.Oui.Si., Boston |
Stephen Petronio Company
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) February 10-February 12, 2012 Stephen Petronio’s Underland is a sexy, enigmatic fusion of dance, music and visual imagery inspired by the tender, bittersweet songs of pop balladeer Nick Cave. Completing Petronio’s vision is an exquisite triptych of projected imagery by visual designer Ken Tabachnick and video artist Mike Daly as well as costumes by Tara Subkoff. Together with his superb company of 11 dancers, they create the provocative world that is Underland.
Free preperformance talks with...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/10/12 -
02/12/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
NIMBAYA!
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Sanders Theatre February 12, 2012 A daring response to the taboo of women playing the djembe in West Africa, Nimbaya! is the first all-women's percussion and dance troupe from Guinea. The group, formerly known as Amazones Women Master Drummers of Guinea, was created in 1998 by Mamoudou Condé of Les Ballets Africains fame. Presenting spectacular performances, Nimbaya! "plays with a fury, pounding out heart-racing rhythms and dancing into near frenzies."—The Boston Globe
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/12/12 |
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge |
Yasmin Levy
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Berklee Performance Center February 12, 2012 With a deep, spiritual and moving style, Yasmin Levy preserves and revives the most beautiful and romantic songs from the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish tradition. Her powerfully sensual voice, which combines flamenco’s fiery passion with the microtonal melisma of Middle Eastern music, ripples across sashaying grooves built from hand percussion; Turkish-Arabic instruments such as the oud, ney and qanun, and Western standbys, including acoustic guitar and bass.
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/12/12 |
Berklee Performance Center, Boston |
Sharon Van Etten
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts February 13, 2012 With a voice known for its stark power and subtle refinement, Sharon Van Etten has a mastery for writing songs with direct honesty and feeling. Over the course of releasing two full-length albums, Because I Was In Love (Language of Stone; 2009) and epic (Ba Da Bing; 2010), Sharon has been celebrated by fans and critics, alike. Since epic’s release, she has opened the Pitchfork Music Festival, played the Hollywood Bowl with Neko Case and at Radio City Music Hall with The Antlers, sung...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/13/12 |
Paradise Rock Club, Boston |
Solas
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Somerville Theatre February 25, 2012 Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Solas is widely considered one of the most popular, influential and exciting Celtic bands. Playing a range of tunes from Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty to Springsteen's Ghost of Tom Joad to traditional Irish jigs and reels, Solas varies the mix of fire-tested Irish tradition and contemporary sensibility with ease. They are touring in support of their new release, Shamrock City.
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/25/12 |
Somerville Theatre, Somerville |
BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet & Marcia Ball
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts at Somerville Theatre February 26, 2012 BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet “One of the most colorful roots bands on the scene. Bon temps, every time they play.”—The New York Times
Marcia Ball "A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist . . . where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."—USA Today
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and Marcia Ball present a heart-racing musical tour of the American South and Gulf Coast. With a celebrated 35-year career, BeauSoleil...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/26/12 |
Somerville Theatre, Somerville |
Sharon Van Etten
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts February 23, 2012 With a starkly powerful voice, Sharon Van Etten is a master of writing songs with direct honesty and feeling. Over the course of releasing two full-length albums, Because I Was in Love (Language of Stone, 2009) and epic (Ba Da Bing, 2010), Van Etten has been celebrated by fans and critics alike. Since epic’s release, she has opened the Pitchfork Music Festival, played the Hollywood Bowl with Neko Case and Radio City Music Hall with The Antlers, sung on new records for Beirut and Ed...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/23/12 |
Paradise Rock Club, Boston |
Art Since the Mid-20th Century
Presented by Worcester Art Museum at Worcester Art Museum February 17, 2011-December 31, 2012 A new installation of the Museum's collection of art since the mid-20th century features approximately fifty works of art displayed in renovated galleries, and presented in three thematic installations: The Persistence of Abstraction, Revivals of Figuration and Portraiture, and Cultural Signs.
This presentation chronicles the past seven decades as still-evolving chapters which illustrate how artists across disciplines, generations, and geographies respond to the experiences of their...
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Worcester Art Museum |
02/17/11 -
12/31/12 |
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester |
The Wizard of Oz
Presented by Wheelock Family Theatre at Wheelock Family Theatre January 27-February 26, 2012 THE WIZARD OF OZ
By L. Frank Baum
With music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Background music by Herbert Stothart
Dance and vocal arrangements by Peter Howard
Orchestration by Larry Wilcox
Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Based upon the classic motion picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.
Directed by James P. Byrne. Musical Director Jon Goldberg. Scenic...
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Wheelock Family Theatre |
01/27/12 -
02/26/12 |
Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston |
Festival of Dance
Presented by Wheaton College February 18-February 19, 2012 A variety of student run dance groups- including SOLE, Paraiso Latino and Tap Out Loud- present a festival of dance featuring an assortment of dance styles and traditions.
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Wheaton College |
02/18/12 -
02/19/12 |
Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
Trybe Gala 2012
Presented by Wheaton College February 23-February 25, 2012 The performance by the student-run dance ensemble Trybe features a wide array of dance styles-belly dancing to urban hip-hop-from a variety of cultures from around the world.
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Wheaton College |
02/23/12 -
02/25/12 |
Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
Black History Month Jazz Band Concert
Presented by Wheaton College February 17, 2012 Under the direction of Rick Britto, the ensemble performs the music of Charlie "Bird" Parker, John Coltrane and other jazz masters.
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Wheaton College |
02/17/12 |
Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
Ken Aptekar: Look Again
Presented by Wheaton College February 6-April 14, 2012 Aptekar carefully mines the works of other artists—from Old Master painters to Edward Hopper and Philip Guston—and skillfully re-creates select portions of their paintings, with clever shifts of scale and hue, covered by glass, upon which he inscribes inventive and often personal lines of text.
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Wheaton College |
02/06/12 -
04/14/12 |
Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
Free WGBH Studio Tours
Presented by WGBH at WGBH February 9, 2010 - Ongoing Go behind the scenes for a free 45-minute tour of WGBH's all-digital studios at One Guest Street in Boston's Brighton neighborhood.
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WGBH |
02/09/10 -
Ongoing |
WGBH, Boston |
First Saturday Open Studios
Presented by Western Avenue Studios at Western Avenue Artist Studios January 7-September 3, 2012 Join the over 200 artists of the Western Avenue Studios for First Saturday Open Studios from 12-5PM. We open our doors on the first Saturday of every month. Visit a variety of artists in their workspaces: painters, photographers, mixed media artists, jewelers, sculptors, fiber artists, potters, glassworkers, and more! Talk to artists about their process and take home art for yourself or a loved one. Parking is free and plentiful! The Western Avenue Studios is at 122 Western Ave in...
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Western Avenue Studios |
01/07/12 -
09/03/12 |
Western Avenue Artist Studios, Lowell |
February Vacation: Make 'Em Laugh
Presented by Watertown Children's Theatre at The Arsenal Center For The Arts February 21-February 24, 2012 Tickle your funny bone! This class allows students a burst of creative energy as they free their imaginations and work on creative collaboration. Make ‘Em Laugh allows students to explore the art and fun of clowning and physical comedy. From Commedia dell’arte to pratfalls to stand-up, this class is perfect for the comic in training. Need a jolt of creative energy? Through improvisation, students will learn different approaches to comedy. This spontaneous good time culminates in...
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Watertown Children's Theatre |
02/21/12 -
02/24/12 |
The Arsenal Center For The Arts, Watertown |
Natural Abundance, an examination of Pattern, Preservation, and Permanence
Presented by Washington Street Art Center February 4-February 29, 2012 This exhibition is the work of three artists: Kat Ely’s sculpture captures the essence of the artifact and the environment from which it was found. She uses the permanence of glass and metal to juxtapose the temporal quality of these objects. Each piece is a reliquary, in which she attempts to illustrate the sacredness of the natural world by housing, protecting and showcasing the things most people ignore and overlook. Kat is the 2011 recipient of the NICHE Award currently Working...
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Washington Street Art Center |
02/04/12 -
02/29/12 |
Gallery 321, Somerville |
I Hate Hamlet - A Comedy by Paul Rudnick
Presented by Walpole Footlighters February 3-February 19, 2012 A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there's one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest...
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Walpole Footlighters |
02/03/12 -
02/19/12 |
Walpole Footlighters Playhouse, East Walpole |
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Presented by Walnut Hill School for the Arts February 23-February 26, 2012 This heartbreakingly hilarious comedy is an irresistible tale filled with charming characters and plot twists. On a remote island off the Irish Coast, word arrives that Hollywood is coming to film. No one is more excited than “cripple” Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for his inspiration - a girl who wants no part of him.
"The big word I’d use to describe “The Cripple of Inishmaan’’ is...
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Walnut Hill School for the Arts |
02/23/12 -
02/26/12 |
Keiter Center for the Performing Arts, Natick |
Somerville Walks
Presented by WalkBoston April 9, 2009 - Ongoing This map shows all of Somerville with possible walks highlighted in five-minute increments. Use it to explore Somerville on foot for recreation, exploration, and transportation.
Use this map for a self guided walk.
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WalkBoston |
04/09/09 -
Ongoing |
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Jon Sarkin: Line by Line
Presented by VSA Arts of Massachusetts January 9-March 9, 2012 Jon Sarkin is a prolific, even compulsive artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings cluttered with words and images. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, ABC Primetime, This American Life, GQ, ArtNews, The American Visionary Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
Jon Sarkin: Line by Line is the artist’s first solo show in Boston. In 2006 he was one of 13 artists the deCordova included...
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VSA Arts of Massachusetts |
01/09/12 -
03/09/12 |
VSA Massachusetts' Open Door Gallery, Boston |
The Gilded Age for the Stage with Juliane Hiam
Presented by Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum January 22-March 25, 2012 One ten-week workshop for adults and young adults from age 12 is being offered this spring at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum. beginning January 22nd from 2 to 3:30pm.
The fee for the ten-week course is $250 with an option for single session drop-ins at $35 per person.
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Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum |
01/22/12 -
03/25/12 |
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Lenox |
Glitter and Gold: Opera Jewels of the Gilded Age
Presented by Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum February 17, 2012 Step back into the 1890's as Theatre Street Productions presents a living history concert of selections from grand opera and seasonal favorites. The concert will feature soprano Andrea Gregori, tenor Steven Nanni, baritone John Rozzoni, mezzo-soprano Kasey Stewart and pianist Margaret Reitz in excerpts from Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, and more. This will be Theatre Street's third appearance at Ventfort Hall since their debut performance in 2008.
$30 per person includes...
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Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum |
02/17/12 |
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Lenox |
UNH Faculty Chamber Ensemble
Presented by University of New Hampshire February 25, 2012 The University of New Hampshire Department of Music Faculty Concert Series presents the UNH Faculty Chamber Ensemble Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. in Johnson Theatre of the Paul Creative Arts Center on the Durham campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
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University of New Hampshire |
02/25/12 |
Johnson Theatre, Durham |
UNH Faculty Composers Concert
Presented by University of New Hampshire February 17, 2012 The UNH Faculty Concert Series presents the Faculty Composers Concert on Friday, February 17, 2012 beginning at 8:00 p.m. in the Bratton Recital Hall of the Paul Creative Arts Center, featuring the music of Christopher Kies, Michael Annicchiarico, and others. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the UNH Department of Music at 603-862-2404.
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University of New Hampshire |
02/17/12 |
Bratton Recital Hall, Durham |