This month we focus on performers, shows, and exhibitions. Richard Stillman is an actor, musician, singer, tap dancer, and storyteller. Most weeks find him performing in a variety of venues from schools and senior centers to assorted theaters. In 2009 Richard returned to the Dartmouth stage as a guest artist in The Grapes of Wrath. In 2014 he won the Best Concert Award for his show, The Spirit of Vaudeville, at the United Solo Theater Festival in New York City. Last year Richard won the GigMasters Rising Star Award as top banjo player. He performed in a production of Mother Courage at the Nebraska Repertory Theater this past fall. Set in the Civil War, the show featured Richard as a nasty Irish sergeant in the Union Army, a lecherous colonel in the Confederate Army, and finally a banjo-picking rebel soldier. The last “seemed charming at first but turned out to be a rapist. I usually play kinder characters.” In January he played in a concert of storytelling and music from around the world with longtime partner Gerald Fierst. Richard accompanied the tales with guitar, mandolin, bagpipes, and a pentatonic lyre he made in the woodshop at Dartmouth.

Jennifer Leigh Warren performed as the Blues Singer in the Broadway streaming of A Night with Janis Joplin, which began on January 19. Jennifer was also part of the cast of Fox Studios’ live television adaptation of Rent, broadcast on January 27. Jennifer played the roles of Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Jefferson, and the “Christmas Bells” homeless woman. She was “thrilled to have the opportunity to bring life to these characters and excited that a new generation is being drawn to the theater.” Jennifer is best known for originating the role of Crystal in the hit musical Little Shop of Horrors, her performance in the original cast of the musical Marie Christine, and her show-stopping performance as Alice’s Daughter in the original Broadway musical Big River with the song “How Blest We Are,” written especially for her by Roger Miller.

George Shackelford has organized an exhibit titled “Monet: The Late Years,” which will be at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from February 16 to May 27 and at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 16 to September 15.

The exhibition features 50 paintings by Monet dating mainly from 1913 to 1926, the final phase of the artist’s long career. “Boldly balancing representation and abstraction, Monet’s radical late works redefined the master of Impressionism as a forebear of modernism.”

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