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Saturday, June 18, 2011

An intimate take on global themes in 'St. Ives' by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

“This play feels like it could have been written two months ago. It feels very much of today,’’ Tyler Marchant says.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, June 9, 2011

He’s ‘Burn’-ing hot by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

His TV show, “Burn Notice,’’ is a cable hit, already renewed for next season. He recently shot his second movie role for director Clint Eastwood, playing opposite Leonardo …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PM
Thursday, June 2, 2011

And the shows go on at North Shore by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

BEVERLY — Bill Hanney, who bought North Shore Music Theatre last year, would love to talk about this season’s musicals all day long. But he’s just as focused on operational…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PM
Saturday, May 28, 2011

For Poland's Teatr Zar, hearing is believing by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

“There’s a lot of great traditional theater in Boston, and we like to offer something that is alternative,’’ says Jennifer Johnson, co-director of the Charlestown Wor…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Playwright, folkie find kinship in musical theater by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

CAMBRIDGE — Playwright Amy Merrill and folk singer Si Kahn wrote a musical together. As these old friends tell the story, sitting side by side in her condo near Inman Square, they seem…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:06AM
Monday, May 16, 2011

Hooked on ensemble comedy by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

They need expert direction. He’s giving it. On a recent Saturday morning in the Theater at Club Café on Columbus Avenue, Boston’s newest comedy-improv-interactive theater at…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:24PM
Friday, May 6, 2011

Warhol helped him find religion by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Andy Warhol made Josh Kornbluth back into a Jew. True, Kornbluth’s parents are Jewish. His mother even speaks Yiddish. But they were also communists and atheists. Growing up in New Yor…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PM
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Current events put a timely spin on dark comedy by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

The killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces affected 9/11 victims’ families, global security, and maybe even the next presidential election.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:30PM
Friday, April 29, 2011

A rock ’n’ roll tale of self-discovery by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Ask Stew about the craft behind his acting in “Passing Strange,’’ and he laughs long and loud.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:04PM
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, a Plum role by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

The first time actress Paula Plum prepared a monologue for an audition, she chose Cleopatra’s death scene from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.’’ She was a …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PM
Monday, April 18, 2011

Opera Boston production wins Pulitzer by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Composer Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music yesterday for “Madame White Snake,’’ the first opera commissioned by Opera Boston — and the first one he has …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:11PM
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Star director takes helm for Company One’s ‘Book of Grace’ by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Staging the New England premiere of “Book of Grace,’’ by Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog’’), would itself be a coup for theater’s upstart Company…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:12PM
Saturday, April 9, 2011

In Wheelock's 'Aladdin,' a sprinkling of Gold Dust by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Beginning Friday, Larry Coen will play the role of the Magician in Wheelock Family Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.’’ He comes to the role fresh from his tu…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Friday, April 8, 2011

Fired up over British comedy by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Darren Evans says the next production from Theatre on Fire is aimed both at the head and the belly.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PM
Friday, April 1, 2011

20 years and going strong by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Last fall, in the thick of SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 20th season, with a big musical to direct, Paul Daigneault started feeling tired and feverish, and it kept getting worse. Eventuall…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PM
Monday, March 28, 2011

Suffolk players get a lot of mileage out of ‘Car Talk’ by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

‘Car Talk: The Musical!!!’’ is the kind of show in which a character borrows the tune of “Maria’’ from “West Side Story’’ to sing a love…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:10PM
Friday, March 18, 2011

Ultimate journeys and brave choices by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

It has been almost 30 years since Bill Cain went to a theater rehearsal in Boston. But on this sunny Saturday afternoon, he’s planning to look in as Publick Theatre Boston prepares for…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:03PM
Thursday, March 10, 2011

‘Living in Exile’ revisits the storytelling of ‘The Iliad’ by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

A week or so ago, actor Robert Walsh began to feel excruciating pain from a disk problem in his back. That’s especially difficult when his next show is theatrical heavy lifting.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PM

Newburyport theater group hopes offering free shows pays off by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

NEWBURYPORT — Call it counterintuitive. In a difficult economy, Theater in the Open is dropping the admission charge for its big outdoor productions at Maudslay State Park. The theater…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AM
Thursday, March 3, 2011

LaBute confronts brutality and hope in relationships by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Neil LaBute’s “Reasons to Be Pretty’’ opens with a couple in the middle of a screaming fight.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PM
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Rebeck creates ‘DollHouse’ with renovations by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Theresa Rebeck says she isn’t surprised that she’d be asked to update one of Henrik Ibsen’s plays examining gender and power. Left to her own devices, she’d go with &…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:26PM
Thursday, February 17, 2011

16 characters, one act, and a phantom hotel by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

“Hotels scare me a little bit,’’ says John Kuntz. “There’s something strange about being in a hotel, this place that wants to be a home, but it’s not. Thi…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:21PM
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

New MFA wing showcases local artists by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

North region residents visiting the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston should feel right at home.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:05PM
Friday, February 11, 2011

For actor, art imitates life by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

There was a moment during rehearsals for “My Name Is Asher Lev’’ when Jason Schuchman felt like the Wandering Jew of Watertown.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:43PM
Thursday, February 3, 2011

The nation’s storyteller by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

If you go to see Ira Glass at Sanders Theatre tomorrow night, you’ll only hear him at first.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PM
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Displays dish on the deep by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

GLOUCESTER — A visit to the Diving Locker induces its own sort of rapture of the deep, with symptoms including giddiness and mild disorientation.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:12PM
Friday, January 28, 2011

Treachery and puppetry by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Ulysses meets WikiLeaks in Bread and Puppet Theater’s latest production. Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Return of Ulysses’’ caps off a weeklong residency by ar…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:24PM
Friday, January 21, 2011

Risks worth taking by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

To play a guy with lots of woman troubles, you have to be an actor whom actresses can trust.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PM
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Venturing into ‘afterlife’ by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

“Playwriting is something you can do by yourself, but theater is not,’’ Steve Yockey says.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PM
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Freud meets Dali in a farce with serious overtones by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

Hysteria is a staple of farce. Terminal cancer, sexual abuse, and Nazi persecution of the Jews, not so much.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:59PM
Thursday, December 30, 2010

A story about actors big and small by Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

The handsome action-movie star wants to prove himself in a Broadway play. The new understudy carries a huge chip on his shoulder about Hollywood. The world-weary stage manager just wants the…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:02AM

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