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DEATH AND THE MAIDEN ASKS ‘HOW DO WE MOVE ON?’

Written by DAN PECCI Posted February 2, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Flora Diaz as Paulina Salas in Death and the Maiden

 

A QUESTION OF COMEUPPANCE?

 

With their latest offering in an ambitiously political season, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) tackles the modern classic Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman.

 

Set in an unnamed country still reeling from the aftermath of ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Death and the Maiden, director, Flora Diaz, Interview, Lead, play, Steven Maler, theater

A LOVELY SOUVENIR

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 25, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Will McGarrahan and Leigh Barrett in Souvenir. Photo by Mark S. Howard.

 

Souvenir returns to the Lyric a decade later

 

After 20 years as producing artistic director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, there’s plenty of material that Spiro Veloudos could have chosen for the production that would commemorate his milestone. For Boston’s resident Stephen Sondheim expert, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston, Cosmé McMoon, director, Florence Foster Jenkins, Interview, Lyric, Souvenir, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Temperley, theater, writer

FROM ‘UNADAPTABLE’ TO SPECTACULAR

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 18, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Eliott Purcell readies The Curious Incident for SpeakEasy Stage

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time isn’t just one of the biggest nonmusical Broadway hits in recent memory, but rather of the last decade. Running for almost 800 performances and winning five Tony ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, broadway, director, Eliott Purcell, Lead, Mark Haddon, novel, play, SpeakEasy Stage, theater, Tony, tour

BEAUTIFUL EXIT: OUTGOING ISABELLA GARDNER MUSEUM DIRECTOR REFLECTS BACK

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 23, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

In her first six months on the job, two thieves dressed as police officers entered the museum and stole over $500 million worth of art in the now infamous Isabella Gardner Museum heist.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Anne Hawley, director, Gardner After Hours, Gothic Room, heist, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, police officers, Rembrandt, Renzo Piano, third thursday

INTERVIEW: “EX-MACHINA” DIRECTOR ALEX GARLAND ON THE BULLSHIT OF FILM CULTS

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted April 17, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Most claims to artistic ownership of a film boil down to marketing plots and ego trips. In other words, they’re total bullshit.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: 28 days later, alex garland, auteur, boston release, director, director of photography, Dredd, ex machina, Hollywood, leonardo dicaprio, never let me go, screenwriter, the beach, Wes Anderson

‘NECESSARY MONSTERS’ IS ECCENTRIC AND ESSENTIAL

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 8, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

More than just an exercise in avant-imagination, “Necessary Monsters” is blisteringly funny and critical.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: BCA, Calderwood Pavilion, David R. Gammons, director, eccentric, John Kuntz, Necessary Monsters, Playwright, review, Saw, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Beehive, theater, theatre, Thomas Derrah

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