Saturday, June 18, 2011
NEW YORK — A chatty letter decorated with smiley faces and written in red pen, now faded to pink. A map of a Harvard residence hall, the rooms of student suspects labeled with their na…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMWILLIAMSTOWN — A lot of the bodies are different, and a gleaming, glass-front performing arts center has replaced the old stages that Jenny Gersten knew.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — To hear director David Saint tell it, “West Side Story’’ fans are an impassioned lot. Some have been known to yell at him about the new producti…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Last month, a couple of weeks after Arthur Laurents died at 93, director David Saint was at the playwright’s Manhattan home, going through his papers.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMFriday, May 27, 2011
“Captors,’’ a world-premiere drama about Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the Israeli agents who tracked him down in 1960 Argentina, will fill the final spot in the Hun…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:50PMTuesday, May 24, 2011
It was a big night for the American Repertory Theater, an even bigger night for ART artistic director Diane Paulus, and quite an evening for “The Aliens.’’ All were multipl…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMMonday, May 23, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — Andrew Galland is all in favor of buying locally. That’s one reason he purchased a share in a CSA: a community-supported agriculture program that, for a few hundred d…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56AMSaturday, May 14, 2011
“With Shakespeare,’’ Edward Hall was saying, “you don’t even have stage directions.’’ The founder and artistic director of England’s Shakespea…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, May 12, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — The first time director Jay Scheib read “Dhalgren,’’ Samuel R. Delany’s cult-classic science fiction novel, it took him nearly a year. The dense and…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:06PMThe Emerging America festival, the hands-across-the-Charles collaboration that itself emerged just a year ago, returns this weekend with three days of wide-ranging drama presented by the Hun…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:05PMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Stand on one side of tiny, wedge-shaped Federal Square, on the southern edge of this city’s downtown, and the perspective is gleaming. What once was a boarded-up multiplex is now the g…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17AMFriday, May 6, 2011
Actor John Malkovich, performance artist Laurie Anderson, choreographer Martha Clarke, and director Robert Lepage are all slated to be part of ArtsEmerson’s 2011-12 season, a lineup th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:25AMSaturday, April 30, 2011
Six decades or so ago, they would cuddle up together on the couch for bedtime stories: the four Lithgow children and their dad. An actor who became a producer, Arthur Lithgow would read to t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMThursday, April 28, 2011
There is a story about Frederick Law Olmsted near the end of his life, when the visionary landscape architect was in his 70s and suffering from dementia. It goes like this.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:25PMAt a time when arts organizations nationwide have been struggling with shaky funding, the Huntington Theatre Company has received the largest gift in its 29-year history: $10 million in endo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:24PMMonday, April 25, 2011
The American Repertory Theater under Diane Paulus has become known primarily for two things: its emphasis on theater shot through with music and its determination to tear down the boundaries…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:18PMSaturday, April 16, 2011
NEW HAVEN — It was early afternoon, lunchtime, as Robert Woodruff sat on a banquette in a restaurant at a boutique hotel, the meal on the table in front of him looking suspiciously lik…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFriday, April 1, 2011
Q. What is it about a song that makes you want to sing it? A. The same thing that makes people want to listen to it. If the story and the melody are blended, or married, then you’ve go…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PMThursday, March 31, 2011
Stephen Karam didn’t set out to write a play about where he grew up, in an aging Pennsylvania city long past its boom, built on industries that deserted it decades ago.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
Actor Bruce Myers was concerned he’d taken on too much. Less than a week before director Peter Brook’s theater company left Europe for Boston to begin its US tour of Dostoyevsky&…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:49PMMonday, March 28, 2011
In the American theater, one quest is eternal: the pursuit of the hot young playwright of the moment, the sort with a freshly minted MFA from Yale or Brown or NYU, living in Brooklyn or on t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:11PMSaturday, March 26, 2011
NEW YORK — F. Murray Abraham was feeling under the weather, and the weather itself was not great. As rain fell outside on the streets of Lower Manhattan, what he really wanted to do wa…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSaturday, March 19, 2011
It was early morning when Diane Paulus walked into the Colonial Theatre for the first time, so eager to get a glimpse of the auditorium that she didn’t even pause to take off her long …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMIt’s a lonely argument, and Peter Brook has been propagating it for decades, making little headway. We’ve gotten Samuel Beckett all wrong, the director insists.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
For a lot of years — the first 12, or maybe 14, that he was a theater director — John Collins rejected the authority of the written word in his work. As for plays, his position w…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMSaturday, March 5, 2011
To most people familiar with “Educating Rita,’’ it’s the 1983 movie that comes to mind: Julie Walters as the bright, charmingly blunt British hairdresser seeking a un…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMMonday, February 28, 2011
If Lee Hall and Elton John’s “Billy Elliot: The Musical’’ is the headliner, then Green Day’s “American Idiot’’ and Rodgers and HammersteinR…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMSaturday, February 19, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — His bathrobe was on fire when someone on the street below screamed at him to jump.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMMonday, February 14, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — The first time Linda Powell went to Hawaii, the Vietnam War was still raging. Her father, Army Major Colin L. Powell, was there on leave from his second tour of duty in Vie…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:19PMSaturday, February 5, 2011
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Walt Disney’s creative team had been laboring for more than three years on the movie adaptation of “Mary Poppins,’’ back in the early 19…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMFriday, February 4, 2011
Q. Anna Deavere Smith wrote in her foreword to your book, “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero,’’ that you can focus perfectly well on conversation in the middle of…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:03PM 
