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DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

Performing Arts

KING JOHN IN SHINY GOLD CONVERSE AT THE BCA

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted February 13, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

It’s all about symbolism. And if you can get past the Shakespearean speech and structure, it works. 

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: BCA, Daniel Boudreau, Jane Reagan, Kimberly Gaughan, King John, Praxis Stage, shakespeare

HELLABLACK IS BACK: LEADING WOMEN OF HUB HIP-HOP UNITE FOR MAJOR BCA THROWDOWN

Written by CANDACE MCDUFFIE Posted February 4, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, MUSIC, Performing Arts

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.

Filed Under: A+E, MUSIC, Performing Arts Tagged With: BCA, Boston, Boston Hip Hop, Brandie Blaze, CakeSwagg, Dutch Rebelle, HellaBlack, Malia the Model, Oompa, Red Shaydez, women in hip-hop

ILIADMATIC: ODDS BODKIN BRINGS BARDIC STORYTELLING TO A TRANSFORMED GRENDEL’S DEN

Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Posted February 4, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Drinks, Eats, FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, MUSIC, Non-fiction, Performing Arts

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.

Filed Under: A+E, Drinks, Eats, FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, MUSIC, Non-fiction, Performing Arts Tagged With: Agamemnon, Beowulf, Cambridge, classics, epic stories, Food, Grendel’s Den, Hrothgar, Joe Froeber, mead, Odds Bodkin, storytelling

DETROIT RED: MALCOLM X COMES OF AGE IN BOSTON

Written by GREG COOK Posted January 30, 2020 Filed Under: Performing Arts

Section of DETROIT RED. Illustrated by Zlatko Mitev

“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.”

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: ArtsEmerson, Detroit Red, Emerson Paramount, Greg Cook, Interview, malcolm x, theater, Will Power

SHE SEES IT, SHE LIKES IT, SHE WANTS IT, SHE GETS IT: VANITY FAIR AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Central Square Theater, Ciara McAloon, David Keohane, David R. Gammons, David Wilson, Debra Wise, Evan Turissini, Jeff Adleberg, Josephine Mosiri Elwood, Kate Hamill, Malikah McHerrin-Cobb, Paul Melendy, Stewart Evan Smith

THE WAY THEY WERE: BRIGHT HALF LIFE AT ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★☆☆

 

According to Julian Marsh, 42nd Street

’s director extraordinaire, the most glorious words in
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Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT, Cristina Todesco, Lyndsay Allyn Cox, Megan Sandeberg-Zakian, Tanya Barfield, Theater Review

WHERE THERE IS CAKE, THERE IS HOPE: THE CAKE AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 21, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★★

 

Inspired by the now infamous case of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay
 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Bekah Brunstetter, Chelsea Diehl, Courtney O'Connor, Fred Sullivan Jr, Karen MacDonald, Kris Sidberry, Lyric Stage, Theater Review

COLLECTING PERSPECTIVE: THE GARDNER MUSEUM’S SALON LUMINARY PROGRAM

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts

As the fourth cohort of Neighborhood Salon Luminaries settles in, and the previous three continue to inform, claims Vedro, “not only the community engagement programs, but now, more and more, other types of programming, and collaborations throughout the museum.”

Filed Under: A+E, DigThis, Performing Arts, Poetry, Visual Arts Tagged With: Nathalia Jmag, Nighborhood Salon Luminary project, Porsha Olayiwola, Rhea Vedro, Sabrina Dorsainvil, Stewart Gardner Museum, Urbana Project, Veronica Robles

LIFE TO THE EVERLASTING CAT: THE BOLD REVOLUTION—AND WELCOME RETURN—OF CATS

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 14, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 


 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Blankenbuehler, Broadway in Boston, Cameron Mackintosh, Citizens Bank Opera House, David Hersey, Gillian Lynne, John Napier, Natasha Katz, PJ DiGaetano, Theater Review, Trevor Nunn

PASS OVER

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted January 9, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Actors Kadahj Bennett and Hubens "Bobby" Cius play Moses and Kitch in Pass Over, a co-production by SpeakEasy Stage Company and The Front Porch Arts Collective. Photo by Nile Scott Studios.

A theatrical look at race in America

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston Center for the Arts, Front Porch Arts Collective, Pass Over, review, SpeakEasy Stage, theater

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