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Dawn M. Simmons

ROLAND IN THE DEEP: FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE DEBUTS AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 12, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Davron S. Monroe with Asher Denburg. Photo by Mark S. Howard.

 

★★★★★

 

The Front Porch Arts Collective raised a few eyebrows this past spring when its name was found in the season announcements of three prominent Boston theater companies: Central Square Theater, Greater Boston Stage Company, and the Lyric Stage, Boston’s ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Asher Denburg, daniel beaty, Davron S. Monroe, Dawn M. Simmons, Doug Gerber, Front Porch Arts Collective, Lyric Stage, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, Nile Scott Hawver, roland hayes, Yewande Odetoyinbo

FRONT PORCH PUSHES THEATRICAL DIVERSITY

Written by JUAN A. RAMIREZ Posted November 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

A new black-led Boston theater company prepares its inaugural season

 

The hard truth about Boston is that it’s a fairly racist city. It’s evident in its social dynamics and made painfully (in)visible in its cultural scene. At least Dawn M. Simmons, the artistic director of the city’s first black-led professional theater ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dawn M. Simmons, Front Porch Arts Collective, Lyric Stage, review, roland hayes, theater

A MODERN VERSE MACBETH THIS WAY COMES

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 4, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Nael Nacer as Macbeth and Maurice Parent as Banquo. Photo by Nile Scott Shots.

 

★★★☆☆

 

This new season at Actors’ Shakespeare Project—the first under artistic director Christopher V. Edwards, who took over from Allyn Burrows last year—is a welcome change of pace for the troupe that has of late been presenting, well, mostly Shakespeare.   

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Brookline, Christopher V Edwards, Dawn M. Simmons, Macbeth, Migdalia Cruz, shakespeare

MANIFEST DESTINY, MINUS THE MEN

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 7, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Director Dawn M. Simmons talks Men on Boats at SpeakEasy Stage

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: 1869, Dawn M. Simmons, expedition, Jaclyn Backhaus, John Wesley Powell, Men on Boats, SpeakEasy

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