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Thursday, September 8, 2011

A ‘Candide’ that has a lot to say by Laura Collins-Hughes

Leonard Bernstein kept coming back to his musical “Candide’’ over the decades, reworking and adding to his original 1956 score. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation premiered …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:06PM

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Civility, self-assertion, and family connections by Laura Collins-Hughes

WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Playwright gets political by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Guare talks about “His Girl Friday,’’ his new comedy adapted from both the 1940 Howard Hawks film of the same name and the 1928 Broadway play on which that was based: …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30PM

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Arciniegas steps down; Publick goes on hiatus by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PM

Saturday, August 6, 2011

ART musical is Broadway-bound by Laura Collins-Hughes

NEW YORK - Three stories up, inside a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows gaze across 42nd Street at Madame Tussauds’s Manhattan outpost, Diane Paulus was four days into rehearsing t…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Cultural diplomacy on Main St. in America by Laura Collins-Hughes

The US State Department, which has long sent American artists abroad as part of its cultural diplomacy efforts, is for the first time launching a sizable program to bring foreign performers …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

With acting trio, 'All's Well' by Laura Collins-Hughes

This week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Post-Broadway 'Tarzan' swings into North Shore by Laura Collins-Hughes

BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

Saturday, July 2, 2011

A first season as staging ground by Laura Collins-Hughes

As ArtsEmerson’s first season was drawing to a close, executive director Robert Orchard seemed to be of two minds about how far the initiative had come. It was only last September when…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

Friday, July 1, 2011