An astonishing, delightful, and moving adaptation of Moby Dick kept me fascinated for nearly three and a half hours at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA the other night. The set and props range from the elegant to the…
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Moby Dick in under 3 1/2 hours!
Tagged with: American Repertory Theater, Chanel daSilva, Dave Malloy, Moby Dick, musicals, Or Mattias, Rachel Chavkin, theater
Posted in About Me, What I'm Seeing
Posted in About Me, What I'm Seeing
A Doll’s House and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “The Solitude of Self”
The very engaging production of A Doll’s House at Boston’s Huntington Theater got me thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s essay “The Solitude of Self.” Stanton was the primary organizer of the Seneca Falls convention on the rights of women in…
Tagged with: A Doll's House, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Huntington Theatre, Ibsen, The Solitude of Self, women
Posted in What I'm Seeing
Posted in What I'm Seeing
The Scottsboro Boys at SpeakEasy
New Year’s Eve included The Scottsboro Boys by SpeakEasy Stage at Boston Center for the Arts. Scottsboro was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the same team who created Cabaret and Chicago. This was a terrific production, funny at…
Tagged with: musicals, race in literature, Speakeasy Theater, The Scottsboro Boys, theater
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Posted in What I'm Seeing
Sean Collier Memorial at MIT: Measured, Meaningful, Memorable
Source: Sean Collier Memorial at MIT: Measured, Meaningful, Memorable
Tagged with: Art Outdoors, Boston Marathon Bombing memorials, Deborah Lee, MIT, public art, Sculpture, Sean Collier
Posted in What I'm Seeing, Written by a Friend
Posted in What I'm Seeing, Written by a Friend
ArtsEmerson: Public Dialogues
WED, NOV 4 @ 7PM Paramount TheatreInterrogating Whiteness (Part 1)Moderated by Future Boston AllianceFeaturing Walter Mosley, American novelist and recipient of the PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement AwardAfter the death of Trayvon Martin, Walter Mosley wrote in Newsweek, “If we can see…
Tagged with: ArtsEmerson, books, literary creation, Paramount Theater, race in literature, Walter Mosley
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Posted in What I'm Seeing
Mr. Leaves by James Tate
One of the best things about the 10/31 Lamplighter show at Club Passim in Harvard Square last night was Peter Mulvey’s reading of “Mr. Leaves” a poem by James Tate. What a great thing to bring a poem, especially one…
Tagged with: Anita Suhanin, Club Passim, James Tate, Lampighter, Peter Mulvey
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This was terrific! So glad I got to see it. A skewering of racial stereotypes in the Huntington’s ‘Colored Museum’ – Theater & art – The Boston Globe
A skewering of racial stereotypes in the Huntington’s ‘Colored Museum’ – Theater & art – The Boston Globe.
Tagged with: Billy Porter, Boston, drama, George C. Wolfe, Huntington Theatre, race in literature, The Colored Museum
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Wonderful concert; haunting soprano. @bosphil
February | bostonphil. Zander’s pre-concert talk was informative and entertaining as always. Unfortunately, the orchestra overpowered Mikolaj’s gorgeous, rich voice in the intimacy of Sanders Theater on the first two of Strauss’s Letzte Vier; this problem recurred in portions of the…
Tagged with: Benjamin Zander, Boston Philharmonic, Mahler, music, Richard Strauss
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Posted in What I'm Seeing
A brilliant humorous touch to a serious and moving play. Theater & art – The Boston Globe
Playing an all-seeing, all-knowing dog – Theater & art – The Boston Globe.
Tagged with: "Father Comes Home from the Wars, American Repertory Theater, drama, Patrena Murry, Suzan-Lori Parks, theater
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Posted in What I'm Seeing
Sorry to Bother You–but you need to see this movie.
So I FINALLY got to see Sorry to Bother You. I tried a while ago and it was sold out the night I went, but I wish I’d made it so I could go again. This is a brilliant film…
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