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Monday, May 25, 2015

For pair, 'Memory' covers a lot of ground by Joel Brown

Catherine Cox and Leslie Kritzer star in "The Memory Show" at Barrington Stage Company.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

'Wicked' cast members enjoy a homecoming by Joel Brown

As the touring musical "Wicked" returns to town, five of its cast members with local ties talk of life on the road.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

He's in tune with high school aspirations by Joel Brown

Andrew Grosso's 'Perfect Harmony' explores the drama, and humor, of competitive a cappella

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

Playwright gets a lesson in new beginnings by Joel Brown

Michael Towers took a year off from teaching to attend an MFA play writing program.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

Method is the madness in Rude Mechs' spoof of theater teachers by Joel Brown

Rude Mechs, an Austin, Texas-based troupe with a thirst for the theatrical edge, make their Boston debut with their play about theater guru Stella Burden's followers, called "The Method Gun."

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

For Marine-turned-actor, the stage offers healing role by Joel Brown

It's a long way from being a Marine officer in Fallujah to acting at the ART. But Ed Walsh says it's not as far as you might think.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM

Gionfriddo takes aim at the fame game by Joel Brown

In a way, the times have caught up to the play, says Gionfriddo, who wrote its first draft as a grad student at Brown in the late ’90s.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Creating a new look for ‘Twelfth Night’ on the Common - Theater & art - The Boston Globe by Joel Brown

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company had chosen “Twelfth Night” for this summer’s Free Shakespeare on the Common production by the time Steven Maler left for a Miami vacation last December…

SOURCE: Boston Globe Subscription at 05:53PM
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Seeing ‘Uncle Vanya’ in four acts, four rooms by Joel Brown

Turns out it’s not that far from here to 19th-century Russia. Beginning next Thursday, the Apollinaire Theatre Company will use the high ceilings and architectural details of its 1906 …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:40PM
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Let’s do the Time Warp again by Joel Brown

“The Rocky Horror Show,’’ the omnisexual alien monster musical, has taught millions of people to do the Time Warp since its stage and film incarnations debuted in the 1970s…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:39PM
Saturday, September 10, 2011

'Peter Pan' off to new heights by Joel Brown

“Peter Pan,’’ says producer Charlie Burnell, is a “portal story’’: “You fly off through the window and off to Neverland.’’ But the three…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Friday, September 9, 2011

Iran-US relations, from a woman’s perspective by Joel Brown

In the mid-1970s, Kathleen Cahill spent 10 months teaching English to young women in the Shah’s Iran. Watching the Green Revolution led her to read about the modern history of the coun…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PM
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Being inclusive is half the fun of Boston Improv Festival by Joel Brown

“I will be honest. The worst part about our festival is that it’s called the Boston Improv Festival,’’ says Jeremiah Jordan. Now in its third year, the event is not j…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:29PM
Thursday, August 25, 2011

On 9/11, Horovitz will be onstage in two cities by Joel Brown

On Sept. 11, Israel Horovitz will fly to New York and back. His one-man play about the aftermath of 9/11, “After Paradise,’’ will be performed in New York and in Gloucester…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:45PM
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Where Wharton and ‘Mad Men’ meet by Joel Brown

At first, “Mad Men’’ and Edith Wharton seem not to belong in the same sentence. But if you think of them both as chronicling the lives of people at a particular moment in s…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:38PM
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Clicks amid the mayhem by Joel Brown

MEDFORD - The scene suggests Dante’s “Inferno’’ rewritten by a small boy. Under the full moon, torches throw off torrents of sparks, while shattered cement and twiste…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:26PM

Tips for better night photography by Joel Brown

On night shoots, Stephen SetteDucati does things with his camera that most people won’t, pushing it to extreme settings (ISO 6400) and shooting handheld images at 1/50th of a second, a…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:22PM
Friday, August 12, 2011

Authenticating meaning of life by Joel Brown

Maude Gutman is a piece of work, a gun-toting ex-bartender who peppers her speech with F-bombs while tossing back shots of Jack Daniel’s. Lionel Percy is a refined art expert more accu…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:01PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

'Grateful for every single day' by Joel Brown

NEWBURYPORT - The actors of “Terezin, Children of the Holocaust’’ are mostly teenagers, a few even younger. Until now, they have never met anyone like Zdenka Fantlova. She …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:55PM
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Charlestown season filled with local connections by Joel Brown

The first production of the season at Charlestown Working Theater is all about “the power of connecting,’’ says Risher Reddick, the play’s director. That’s also…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PM
Thursday, July 21, 2011

From a season of risk and buzz to one with a theme by Joel Brown

When your theater company performs in a 144-seat town hall auditorium on a rural road in the Berkshires, you have to work extra hard to get the word out.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PM
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Skating back to the scene of the rivalry by Joel Brown

The news that Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan are back in the spotlight together may inspire a moan of “Why? Why? Why?’’

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:58PM
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Thanks to merger, more shows will go on in Berkshires by Joel Brown

Playing the most famous deaf, mute, and blind boy of all time, Randy Harrison likes what he sees and hears at Pittsfield’s Colonial Theatre.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:49PM
Thursday, June 30, 2011

A return to Stoneham — and sisterhood by Joel Brown

STONEHAM — They’ve been singing and dancing together for years. Backstage they laugh and cry and argue and tease. They’re the Andrews Sisters onstage — and more than …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:18PM
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Public transportation musical fits Boston to a T by Joel Brown

Late trains, missed stops, broken air conditioning. . . . Few Bostonians would mistake the MBTA for the yellow brick road these days. But three harried 20-somethings find an old T map that l…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:15PM

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