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DIG Year End 2020

Performing Arts

THE BEST THEATER IN GREATER BOSTON OF 2020

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 30, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

A recap of the performing arts in a tumultuous year.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: 2020, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Lyndsay Allyn Cox, SpeakEasy Stage Company, theater, Vanity Fair

BALLET MEETS BURLESQUE, GOES VIRTUAL

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 1, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

This year, Somerville Theatre’s “The Slutcracker" will be told in cinematic form.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Lipstick Criminals, The Nutcracker, the slutcracker, Vanessa White

“MANIFEST DESTINY’S CHILD” TEARS DOWN AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted October 21, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Dennis Trainor Jr.'s virtual theater piece reflects on electoral politics, 2016 race.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dennis Trainor Jr, Jill Stein, Manifest Destinty's Child, presidential race

WOKE IN PROGRESS

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted August 20, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

Jesse Draxler's Living with a Ghost

Taking Action for Black Lives in Boston’s Arts Community

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Arts for Black Lives, Boston Center for the Arts, entertainment, equity, Massachusetts

COVID-19 AND THEATER EDUCATION

Written by KENDALL TAMER Posted June 1, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Performing Arts

An empty Cohen Auditorium at Tufts University. Photo by Kevin Ma, courtesy of Tufts Now.

According to Sheridan Thomas, teaching comedic timing is nearly impossible through a computer screen. Thomas, a teacher of acting and directing at Tufts University, is 70 years old and never had to teach online before COVID-19. She had to adjust to tools like Zoom to conduct her comedic Shakespeare class, and lagging WiFi made a mess of the course. 

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston, coronavirus, COVID-19, education, feature, Massachusetts, news, Sheriden Thomas, slider, theater, tufts university

WHEN SOCIAL DISTANCING AND SOCIAL MEDIA HELP ARTISTS EXPAND THEIR REACH

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted May 1, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Performing Arts

coronavirus virtual dance

“People are recognizing that we artists live off this to a higher degree, versus the assumption that we do this just for fun.”

Filed Under: COVID, Performing Arts Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, performing arts, slider

BOSTON STAGE ACTORS FACE SETBACKS BUT FIND INSPIRATION DURING PANDEMIC

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted April 18, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

“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.”

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston, coronavirus, COVID-19, slider, theater

MASS DANCERS STREAM CLASSES ONLINE, OFFER MUCH MORE THAN JUST EXERCISE

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted April 8, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, COVID, Performing Arts

virtual dance class coronavirus

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. 

Filed Under: A+E, COVID, Performing Arts Tagged With: A+E, COVID, Dance, performing arts, slider

BEAUTIFUL DISASTER: THE CHILDREN AT SPEAKEASY STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted March 4, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★★

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Bryn Voice, Cristina Todesco, Jeff Adelberg, Karen MacDonald, Lucy Kirkwood, Paula Plum, theatre review, Tyrees Allen

LOVE SPENT: THE TREASURER AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★☆☆☆

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Chelsea Kerl, Cheryl McMahon, Ken Cheeseman, Kristin Loeffler, Lyric Stage Company, Max Posner, rebecca bradshaw, Theater Review

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