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THOTBOT HOTSPOT: HOW A GLITCH TEST BEGAT A TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 8, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

"Perspective, belief, memory, social class, education—among many other things—all play a role in shaping how we see and act in the world, but ultimately we are the creators."

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Bow Market, glitch test, installation, multimedia, performance, Politics, Reagan Esther Myer, Rebecca Kopycinski, scifi, social class, SOMERVILLE, theater, thotbot, transmedia narrative

LOL ON TRAGEDY

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted January 2, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

A speedy taste of all things Shakespeare

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Abridged, Charlestown Working Theater, parody, review, shakespeare, theater

ANSWERING WHY THE WILD THINGS ARE: CLIFF NOTEZ ON ALTERNATIVE SPACES AND HIS LATEST CHAPTER IN HIPSTORY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Interviews, MUSIC, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

"I was talking about things that I didn’t even know I wanted to be talking about. I didn’t even know this album was going to be coming out. I just knew I wanted to make it, and then see if I wanted to share it with the world."

Filed Under: A+E, Interviews, MUSIC, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: art spaces, Cliff Notez, Dorchester Art Project, HipStory, ICA, Into the Wiild, Lattrell James, Oberon, Oompa, Sinclair, STL GLD, What's Right With Boston, Why The Wild Things Are, WRWB

THE BEST PRODUCTIONS OF 2019

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

They had style, they had grace. Alice Ripley gave good face.

 

As we come to the close of another theatrical year, it’s time to not only name the best productions of the year, but to reflect on the year’s theatrical offerings as a whole. Some years there are trends; some years there aren’t. And sometimes when ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Arlekin Players, Bedlam, Broadway in Boston, Central Square Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage

ALL THE MILLION HOURS: PARADE AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

Moonbox Productions continues its impressive run of presenting complicated, adult musicals with more polish, professionalism, and nuance than most other companies in the Boston area, even those with more cash and more clout.

 

Parade  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Aaron Patterson, Alfred Uhry, Anna Bortnick, Chelsea Kerl, Dan Prior, Elizabeth Cahill, Gable Kinsman, Hayley K. Clay, Jason Monica, Jason Robert Brown, Leo Frank, Lindsay Genevieve Fuori, moonbox productions, Phil Tayler, Theater Review

ALTERING THE COURSE: MOBY-DICK AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Bradley King, Dave Malloy, Eric Berryman, Eric F. Avery, Herman Melville, Manik Chokshi, Mimi Lien, Rachel Chavkin, Theater Review, Tom Nelis

ON STAGE NOW: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, DOLLY PARTON’S SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, CHRISTMAS ON URANUS, AND OLIVER!

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 10, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS AT THE LYRIC STAGE

 

 

★★☆☆☆

 

Forget “whodunnit,” the bigger question is “who cares.”

 

An ensemble cast of beloved local actors doing their best is what Murder on the Orient Express  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Gold Dust Orphans, Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theater, Theater Review

JAGGED LITTLE PILL STILL SAYS TOO LITTLE ABOUT TOO MUCH

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 6, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★☆☆☆

 

“I recommend biting off more than you can chew” is one Alanis Morissette lyric that the team behind Jagged Little Pill appears to have taken far too literally.

 

When the musical—clobbered together from Morissette’s catalogue of hits—premiered ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alanis Morisette, american repertory theater, broadway, Celia Rose Gooding, Derek Klena, Diablo Cody, Diane Paulus, Elizabeth Stanley, Kathryn Gallagher, Lauren Patten, Ricardo Hernandez, Sean Allan Krill, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

CHIVALRY MEETS TEQUILA

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted December 5, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

At odds with ICE and in search of the Mexican Dulcinea, Quixote Nuevo is reborn as the shining knight of Chicanos

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Flaviana Sandoval, Huntington Theater Company, Quixote Nuevo, review, theater

CHIVALRY MEETS TEQUILA: AT ODDS WITH ICE AND IN SEARCH OF THE MEXICAN DULCINEA, QUIXOTE NUEVO IS REBORN AS THE SHINING KNIGHT OF CHICANOS

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted December 4, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

At odds with ICE and in search of the Mexican Dulcinea, Quixote Nuevo is reborn as the shining knight of Chicanos

 

If at age 15 anyone had told me that Miguel de Cervantes’ celebrated chivalric novel Don Quixote could someday become a poignant social commentary on the reality of 21st-century America, I would have probably laughed in disbelief. 

 

Growing up in ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Emilio Delgado, Gianna DiGregorio Rivera, huntington theatre company, Juan Manuel Amador, KJ Sanchez, Octavio Solis, Sarita Ocón

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