“People are recognizing that we artists live off this to a higher degree, versus the assumption that we do this just for fun.”
WHEN SOCIAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL MEDIA HELP ARTISTS EXPAND THEIR REACH
Performing Arts
BOSTON STAGE ACTORS FACE SETBACKS BUT FIND INSPIRATION DURING PANDEMIC
“I’m concerned for the economic welfare and health of our artists, but I’m not afraid and not nervous about what creativity is actually taking place right now.”
MASS DANCERS STREAM CLASSES ONLINE, OFFER MUCH MORE THAN JUST EXERCISE
While the Afro Flow crew usually attracts around 40-50 attendees at a regular class, after just one week of streaming, they have more than 7,000 views on Facebook alone. Salmon Jones says she's had attendees from as close by as Northeastern, to folks tuning in from Barbados.
BEAUTIFUL DISASTER: THE CHILDREN AT SPEAKEASY STAGE
★★★★★
Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here’s Rose!
And in Lucy Kirkwood’s extraordinary play The Children, this Rose shows up out of the blue at the ramshackle seaside cottage ...
LOVE SPENT: THE TREASURER AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆
In Max Posner’s The Treasurer, a middle-aged man who doesn’t love his mother—and seems to hate himself for it—finds himself in the position of having to take charge ...
KING JOHN IN SHINY GOLD CONVERSE AT THE BCA
It’s all about symbolism. And if you can get past the Shakespearean speech and structure, it works.
HELLABLACK IS BACK: LEADING WOMEN OF HUB HIP-HOP UNITE FOR MAJOR BCA THROWDOWN
To show how far these artists have come even over the past few months—through Boston Music Awards wins, headline performances, and national media attention—we brought them together for a special shoot, Vanity Fair-style.
ILIADMATIC: ODDS BODKIN BRINGS BARDIC STORYTELLING TO A TRANSFORMED GRENDEL’S DEN
Besides the voices, the sound effects, like wind or foot-stomps and the open-tuned guitars, Bodkin introduces his shows with the sort of accessible yet scholarly lore that eases listeners into his worlds.
DETROIT RED: MALCOLM X COMES OF AGE IN BOSTON
“A lot of people in Boston don’t associate Malcolm X with being a Boston figure. They don’t claim him. Let’s rediscover our own heroes and reclaim them and understand the complexities of who they were.”
SHE SEES IT, SHE LIKES IT, SHE WANTS IT, SHE GETS IT: VANITY FAIR AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
★★★★☆
There are two directors in Boston that I would wholeheartedly call fearless: One is Igor Golyak of Needham’s Arlekin Players, and the other is David R. Gammons, whose current mounting of Kate Hamill’s Vanity ...
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