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TRYING TO BE ORDINARY

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 8, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Melinda Lopez in Mala

 

Melinda Lopez readies Mala for its Boston return

 

Last fall, ArtsEmerson presented the world premiere of Mala, Huntington playwright-in-residence Melinda Lopez’s gorgeous, deeply personal, and unforgettable one-woman play about loss, family, and what it means to be human.

 

In the midst of trying to ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, Huntington Theater, Interview, Lead, Mala, Melinda Lopez, play, Playwright, theater

KEN URBAN’S BIG MOMENT

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 3, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

With a new post at MIT and a world premiere play at the Huntington, everything’s coming up Urban

 

Who would ever have thought that a field trip to an engineering firm would be responsible for giving the American theater one of its most potent and exciting new voices? But that’s kind of how it happened for Ken Urban, who recently began his new post as head ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Huntington Theater Company, Interview, Ken Urban, MIT, Playwright, theater

‘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

THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES: OLIVIA THIRLBY STARS IN—AND BELIEVES IN—EVE ENSLER’S NEW PLAY “O.P.C.”

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 3, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

Photo By Gretjen Helene

 

If Blake Lively were sitting in front of me and describing her latest role as “my favorite,” I might be wont to dismiss it as a flippant remark, something like a friend offhandedly reassuring you that she just loves her new shoes. But Romi, the unapologetic, radical-minded, ...  read more

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: A.R.T., activist, Amanda Seyfried, Blake Lively, costuming, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dredd, dumpster-diving, Emma Stone, Ensler, Eve Ensler, freeganism, global warming, Gossip Girl, government surveillance, Hollywood, Hollywood's New Wave, income inequality, Interview, Juno, Kate Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Loeb Drama Center, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Pesha Rudnick, Playwright, Romi, sexuality, The Vagina Monologues, theater preview, theatre, V-Day, Vanity Fair

THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 3, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Olivia thirlby stars in—and believes in—Eve Ensler's new play "O.P.C."

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: A.R.T., activist, Amanda Seyfried, Blake Lively, costuming, Dredd, dumpster-diving, Emma Stone, Ensler, Eve Ensler, freeganism, global warming, Gossip Girl, government surveillance, Hollywood, Hollywood's New Wave, income inequality, Interview, Juno, Kate Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Loeb Drama Center, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Pesha Rudnick, Playwright, Romi, sexuality, The Vagina Monologues, theater preview, theatre, V-Day, Vanity Fair

DOWN WITH PRONOUNS, UP WITH ‘THE DISPLACED HINDU GODS TRILOGY’

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted October 30, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

I’ve never cried during a stand-up routine, at least not until I saw “Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show.”

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Aditi Brennan Kapil, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Brahma the Creator, Company One, Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, Hindu, Hindu Trinity, Hinduism, Kapil, mythology, Playwright, Shiva the Destroyer, Star Trek, Vishnu the Sustainer

IT’S ALL VERY COSMIC: THE DISPLACED HINDU GODS TRILOGY

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted October 22, 2014 Filed Under: Uncategorized

In her upcoming series of plays, dubbed the Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil—who is half-Indian, half-Bulgarian, and grew up in Sweden before ultimately settling in the US—explores a phenomenon she calls “re-mythologizing.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aditi Brennan Kapil, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Brahma the Creator, Company One, diaspora, Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, Hindu, Hindu Trinity, Hinduism, Kapil, mythology, Playwright, Plaza Theatre, Shiva the Destroyer, Spencer Shannon, Star Trek, theater preview, Vishnu the Sustainer

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