The Springfield Symphony Orchestra presents an afternoon of out-of-this-world music on Nov. 4, from Holst’s “The Planets” to Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony.” Nicholas Hersh is the guest conductor at this 2:30 p.m. matinee concert in Springfield Symphony Hall. For details: www.springfiueldsymphony.org. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” winner of 10 Tony Awards including “Best Musical,” will play two…

“It’s a sexy space, a sophisticated space,” says McLean Fletcher. “I like that you can come through the door, know you’re still in Richmond, but feel like you’ve been transported somewhere else.” Fletcher is the new artistic director of The Basement; a subterranean facility at Third and Broad Street that used to serve as the…

<!– Hide Mobile side –> SOUTH BEND, Ind. – It was the second annual Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebration at a packed theater at the Morris Performing Arts Center on Sunday. The Day of the Dead observes All Hallow’s Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day. It’s a day…

The first volume of the Brown Arts Institute’s MOVEMENTS arts journal, titled “Dissonance,” launched online Friday.  “Dissonance” seeks to activate “radical theoretical flows that reconnect us with each other, nature and the world” — and serves as a “poetic remixing of freedom movements and their live manifestations in community, experimentation and creativity,” according to the…

NEW YORK CITY: The Playwrights Realm has announced that executive director Roberta Pereira will depart the organization at the end of this year to become the new Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman executive director of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She will succeed Linda Murray in the position, who has served…

Digital artist and educator Nettrice Gaskins will be giving a talk titled “Theory, Content and Style for the AI Revolution” at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. In her presentation Gaskins will explain her methods, motivations and cultural critiques through her art. Her work centers on African Americans,…

A critic and dramatist himself, he started repertory companies at Yale and Harvard and fiercely defended the art form, even if it meant feuding with playwrights. Robert Brustein, an erudite and contentious advocate for profit-indifferent theater, in the service of which he wore many hats — critic, teacher, producer, director, playwright and even actor —…

Members from the Yakshahejje School of Yakshagana and Performing Arts of Indianapolis perform a traditional folk dance of Karnataka and Kerela at the 2023 Greater Lafayette’s Indian Women’s Association event, on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2023, in Lafayette, Ind. Noe Padilla/Journal & Courier Members from the Yakshahejje School of Yakshagana and Performing Arts of Indianapolis perform…

There was nothing shy about Robert Brustein, who died Sunday, Oct. 29, at the age of 96. The American Repertory Theater founder was fearless about taking on all comers be they Tom Stoppard, August Wilson or Tony Kushner. He would rail, in his erudite way, about the perceived sins of the A.R.T.’s main rival in…

The fantasy-filled, dramatic comedy “She Kills Monsters” is the fall production at Sussex County Community College’s (SCCC) Performing Arts Center. “She Kills Monsters” tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio after the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, she finds…