Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The latest tour of the megahit musical Les Miserables is here in Boston. Currently, a big screen version is being filmed.Here is a video taken of Hugh Jackman as Valjean, tearing up his yel…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:14PMSunday, March 25, 2012
It seems Mike Daisey was also reflecting on the Chris Hayes piece I linked to this morning. He has now posted some thoughts on his own website. Here are just some of them:And I would l…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 08:02PMPlaybill from Mike Daisey's showat The Public TheaterPhoto by Esther at Gratuitous ViolinsIt has been over a week since the revelation that Mike Daisey fabricated and embellished some key in…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:18PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Shortly before last weekend's controversy involving Mike Daisey and This American Life, Daisey had released the text of his show The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs online under a Creati…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:03PMMonday, March 19, 2012
I have a little trivia question for everybody in light of all the columns and blog posts being written about the Mike Daisey controversy.Ready?Who said the following:"It seemed best for the …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:10PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
The Chicago Sun Times reports on a brawl at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night:It gets so quiet during the second movement of the Brahms Symphony No. 2, you could almost hear a pi…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:47PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Somerville Long Puddle , a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:10PMIt was only a few weeks ago that I posted about the question of loyalty to published stage directions. The subject was interesting enough to attract a number of comments to the post.Wi…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:35PMSunday, March 4, 2012
Garden Bike, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:02PMThursday, March 1, 2012
Out shooting another entry into Lord Somerville's Diary this past weekend.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:00AMMonday, February 27, 2012
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:48PMSunday, February 12, 2012
More funny acting advice here. From the mind of Constantine Ersatz, working from his top secret acting studio in Manhattan.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:04PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:48PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
The New York Times covered Paula Vogel's playwriting boot camp that was recently held at Second Stage Theatre. She holds these informal training seminars around the country, "usually a…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:12PMMonday, February 6, 2012
Sam Gold's production of John Osborne's angry young cry of a play, Look Back in Anger, has just opened in New York City at the Laura Pels Theater. We got a look at the play when the Orfeo Gr…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:47PMSaturday, February 4, 2012
In an interview with The Eye, a blog of the Columbia Spectator, playwright Theresa Rebeck talks about trying to hire a qualified woman to work on her new television show Smash:Working on thi…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 08:07PMThursday, February 2, 2012
So, Hollywood is increasingly involved in the news of the theater recently.Yesterday, word came that mega-producer Scott Rudin was suddenly pulling the plug on his financing of the Broadway …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:13PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Knees ache, bottoms numb up andwatches flicker. When a theatrical performance,even an enjoyable one, has gone on too long at one clip, the audience membersfeel it. And let's…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:28PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
Here in Massachusetts, many are acquainted with the idea of offering tax incentives for the production of motion pictures. We currently offer pretty substantial breaks that have made it more…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:39AMThursday, January 26, 2012
Monday night I'll be on a panel about the recent phenomenon of Tweet Seats.The panel is sponsored by Arts in America and will be held at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Other paneli…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:41PMTuesday, January 24, 2012
The Neofuturists sponsor a Twitter Play assignment every week. This week's assignment was "Write a one-tweet play that features an Apple."The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:42PMMonday, January 23, 2012
After all, in this Internet age of the citizen critic, for every loss of a voice like the Village Voice's J. Hoberman, we have the rise of a whole chorus of folks like The Reply Girl!The Mir…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:39PMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Not really. This is just leftover merchandise that capitalized on CBS's failed series Swingtown.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:38PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
As promised, at my film blog Gate Dimension, I've listed at nine hit films from the last 30 years that look at money in more than a cursory way. Most all of them are flawed, some are e…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:06PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
Tom Garvey, writing in The Hub Review,tries to sort out our current culture's fascination with Downton Abbey. In his contemplation, he gets into theclass/race issue:"A series like …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:05PMSaturday, January 7, 2012
When Tom Loughlin first posted a lament over the latest Broadway League numbers at his Poor Player blog, I doubt he realized the firestorm he was kindling.Indeed, the comments on that origin…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 07:52PMWednesday, January 4, 2012
The Boston Globe confirms that David Wheeler, long-time director at the American Repertory Theater and founder of The Theatre Company of Boston, has died.David was a great fixture on t…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:58PMTom Loughlin, who blogs at A Poor Player, throws out a stark post after reviewing the latest Broadway League and NEA numbers. (83% of Broadway tickets to plays were purchased by Caucas…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 08:36AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
Terrence Howard & Anika Noni Rose in Cat on a Hot Tin RoofJohn Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker, just posted a roundup of the Best Theater of the Year on that publication's Cultur…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:10AMMonday, January 2, 2012
1. The Trip"Everything's exhausting when you're past 40."Two British stars take a trip to the North of England together in this Michael Winterbottom project that was edited down f…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:17PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
In this morning's Boston Globe, an article appeared which has Facebook on fire with condemnation.Apparently, some theater companies are trying to find ways to assimilate the lifestreaming cr…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:30PM 
