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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Paul Merton's wife needed an actor to play a neurotic comic. She didn't have to look far by Vanessa Thorpe Arts and Media Correspondent

Suki Webster's Edinburgh Fringe play explores the relationship between performers and their obsessive fans Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, August 1, 2014

Edinburgh festival: your favourite shows and memorable moments by Marta Bausells and Guardian Readers

We asked you to choose the best thing youve ever seen at the Edinburgh festival. From a teenager mesmerised by Russian theatre to audience members being thrown olives and oiled up, here are …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Your Edinburgh: share your festival photographs by Marta Bausells and Guardian Readers

Whether youre cracking up on the Fringe, hanging out with bookish types at Charlotte Square, performing, working, or just generally going down with festival fever, share your pictures with u…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16AM
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Edinburgh fringe comedians rediscover the art of dressing up for laughs by Vanessa Thorpe, Observer Arts and Media Correspondent

Clothes make the comedian at this year's fringe as acts seem to have fallen under the spell of Downton Abbey Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM
Monday, June 30, 2014

Your Unofficial Guide to Enjoying the Funny or Die Oddball Comedy Festival by Art

Funny or Die has announced and put tickets on sale for their second annual summer Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival!You can visit the official Funny or Die website here. My wife and I at…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:55PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

An Intervention, Palace Theatre, Watford by With The Simplest Of Designs By Lucy Osborne, and Great Music From Tom Gibbons (i Particularly Liked The Use Of Joe Cocker's With A Little Help From My Friends), This Engrossing and Entertaining Piece Ends On A Powerful Visual Image Of A Suicidal Mutual D

Palace Theatre, Watford: A smart two-hander, An Intervention begins with a drink-fuelled confrontation between A, a young woman who has just been on an anti-war protest, and her best friend,…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM
Friday, March 14, 2014

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Performing Arts: Hearing is Believing: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Doro by [email protected], Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:47AM

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Performing Arts: Hearing is Believing by [email protected], Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…

SOURCE: nypl.org at 10:47AM
Friday, February 7, 2014

Come and Knock on Our Door! - But Slide the Summons Underneath by Art

Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter and Suzanne Somers in Three's CompanyPlaywright David Adjmi is in a tough spot.He spent a lot of time writing a play, a dark satire of a well-known sitcom of t…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:40PM

Wellesley Sleepwalking Through the World - Christina's World. by Art

My own little meme.To understand, you can read all about the controversy over this sleepwalking man here.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:35PM
Thursday, January 30, 2014

We Wrote a Movie. And Now We're Trying to Make It! by Art

Check out our Kickstarter campaign for all the details.  Our Kickstarter launch was great, but we've really tapered off. The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:17PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Peforming Arts by Katrina Dixon, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

It was March of this year when I first heard from Amanda Belantera, who had begun her initial search for a New York City home for Kinokophonography Night. Amanda, along with the Kinokophone …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:33AM
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Are You There, NSA? It's Me, Ron! by Art

A little video I made when thinking about faith and the surveillance society.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:24PM
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Arts Entrepreneurship: You are closer than you think. by Jim Hart and Gary D. Beckman

(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). “My second conclusion is that attri…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:40AM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Lone Runner The Day After by Art

Lonely Runner The Day After, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:59PM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Critical Defense Posture by Art

There is a lot of hyperventilating over the state of theater criticism lately.Just a few weeks ago, we had one of the old lions, retired New Yorker Critic John Lahr, assailing the younger ge…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:55PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Light Trails - Massachusetts Avenue by Art

Light Trails - Massachusetts Avenue, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.I had the camera on a tripod in the car. But Boston roads are very bumpy.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and …

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:27PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Jupiter Rising by Art

Jupiter Rising, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Abstract photography with Oil and Water.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:43AM
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Criticism And Reviewing - "I'm Versus You. Completely Versus." by Art

Refined Or Philistine? Critic or Reviewer?(Seth Numrich in the Lincoln Center production of Golden Boy)The critical community rallied to separate camps this past week after former New Yorker…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:39PM
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Something wicked: the best Macbeths in clips by Lyn Gardner and Patrick Stewart

As London's Trafalgar Studios hosts James McAvoy playing Macbeth set in a futuristic Scotland, here are clips of some memorable productions, from Trevor Nunn at the RSC to BlackadderReading …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AM
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Evergreen Movie Tax Credits Debate Now Moves To Stages by Art

Tax credits for film production are a familiar enough concept for those who follow Massachusetts political and cultural news.As I posted last year, the concept of tax credits for large, Broa…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:56PM
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Gambling is Coming to Boston. What Does It Mean for the Arts? by Art

Rendering of one of the casino proposals for outside Boston.This is an important date in the future of the Bay State's cultural landscape. Today is the deadline for casino developers to…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:57AM
Monday, January 14, 2013

Side by Side by Side Reviews of Sondheim by Art

 Phil Tayler and Erica Spyres in MARRY ME A LITTLE.Photo by Andrew Brilliant/ Brilliant Pictures.The critical waters in Boston are growing shallower by the year, as evidenced by To…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:31PM
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Critics Have Actor Nightmares, Too by Art

New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley recaps his winter vacation, during which he saw no plays, but happily saw New York stage actors in many of the end-of-year, award season movies.In …

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:22PM
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Spotlight on Walter Tull, hero who fought prejudice on the pitch and in the trenches by Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media Correspondent

New play explores the life of Walter Tull, one of the first black footballers in England who also became an officer in the first world war Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
Friday, January 11, 2013

Boston Theater - Friday Roundup by Art

2013 is getting into full swing with a lot of openings Here are some of the shows you can see in and around the Hub this weekend: Opening A variety of Boston's best actresses …

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:38AM
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

New York Centrism - Critic Says, We're All In the Same Boat by Art

Michael Feingold, writing in the Village Voice, takes in the latest Pulitzer Prize winning play to have originated at a regional theater outside of New York City. Water by the Spoonful, la…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:13AM

Boston Playwright Gets Mellon Grant - Melinda Lopez Will Take Residency at the Huntington by Art

More great news for Boston theater.  One of our playwrights, Melinda Lopez, has been chosen for one of the Mellon Foundation's residencies for playwrights, which will provide salaries a…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:45AM
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Rosebud Diner- Somerville MA by Art

Rosebud Diner- Somerville MA, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:39AM
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

The Year of the Critical Discussion by Art

Over on Salon, Laura Miller interviews literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who has just published Waiting for the Barbarians, a collection of his criticisms.The short interview ranges through…

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:15AM
Sunday, December 9, 2012

How I Celebrate With Christmas Spirits! by Art

Bob Cratchit Hangs with Christmas Present, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.This is year 13 for me in A Trolley Christmas Carol!The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond

SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:36AM