Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Nantucket Sentries, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:07PMInstead of penning a memoir about how I spent a year seeing classics of the theater and learned how to get a book contract, I thought I would just post my annual list of canonical theatrical…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:27PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Lake Placid Wedding Guests As Hurricane Irene Approaches, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:41PMFriday, August 26, 2011
Oak Bluffs cottages fully lit for Grand Illumination., a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 06:50PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:11AMMonday, August 15, 2011
The Boston Globe has the story.
Artistic Director Diego Arciniegas is stepping down.
“It became clear to me that I needed to move on,’’ said Arciniegas, 51, who stepped down in tan…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:39PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
Citrusy Somerville Houses, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 06:13PMThursday, August 11, 2011
"Corporations are people," - Mitt Romney in Iowa today.
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 08:48PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Mill 6 Collaborative seems to have hit the sweet spot when it came up with its playwriting challenge called The T Plays.
Tomorrow night marks the opening of the third annual run of this uni…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:03PMThursday, August 4, 2011
OpeningThe Orfeo Group opens their production the 2007 Olivier Award-winning play Love Song at the Charlestown Working Theater. As a reminder, Thursday nights are free of charge at Orfeo.Ste…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 06:28PMMonday, August 1, 2011
TM chooses the season's must-have DVDs, CDs, books, audio books and theater-related merchandise.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThursday, July 28, 2011
OpeningThe paranoid, claustrophobic play Bug by Tracy Letts will be infesting The Factory Theatre, courtesy of Flat Earth Theatre.Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well opens on the Boston …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:07PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:14AMThursday, July 21, 2011
Here is a little snippet of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story back in 2003 about A Contemporary Theater (ACT) when it was on the brink of closing the doors:"We choose to look at the theater…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:26AMMonday, July 18, 2011
Two posts making the circuit today.Both of them are about being a playwright in the Big Apple.On HotReview, Barbara Hammond talks about the sacrifices one makes to keep at the stage writing …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:31PMThursday, July 14, 2011
Several bloggers, among them George Hunka at Superfluities Redux, have linked to a Terry Teachout essay in this month's Commentary.Teachout, after seeing, (or enduring, as he might say,) An …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:27AMMonday, July 11, 2011
It was almost a year ago that we started making our comedic short film The Oblique Sector - a kind of homage to The Twilight Zone crossed with a comic cautionary tale about internet dating. …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:20PMFriday, July 8, 2011
John Moore of the Denver Post looks into the the interesting statistic that "only 37 percent of the productions offered by the 10 leading Shakespeare festivals in North America were written …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 07:22PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Today, Tom Garvey reviews Stoneham's production of Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Back in 2007 the pop star Christina Aguilera did a rearrangement of the Andrew Sisters…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:17PMMonday, July 4, 2011
Last week, two of my fellow bloggers were latecomers to the new musical play The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, which just wrapped up a run at Playwrights Horizons.Boston playwright John K…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:03PMSunday, July 3, 2011
Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune takes a look at Toronto's Luminato Festival which just concluded:But for all the lofty artistic aims spoken at Luminato, which claims to be the largest mul…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:40AMRight on the heels of the American Theatre article assessing the Diane Paulus transition at the American Repertory Theatre, The Boston Globe takes a look at ArtsEmerson, Robert Orchard's bol…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:44AMFriday, July 1, 2011
In the new issue of American Theatre, Chris Wallenberg has a pretty lengthy article on the transition and transformation of the American Repertory Theater under Diane Paulus.The article does…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:43PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 05:33PMMonday, June 27, 2011
The scene outside the Starlight Theater on Nantucket before our @obliquesector movie premier. #NFF2011, a photo by BradKellyPhoto on Flickr.This shot is by my friend Brad Kelly - also our Di…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:34AMFriday, June 17, 2011
Postcards have arrived!, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Via Flickr:Postcards for our film The Oblique Sector arrived today! They look great. Check out our film's website at www.obliquesec…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:58PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
From Indie Wire:Werner Herzog has lent his voice to Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés’ infamous children’s book “Go the F**k to Sleep.” His reading will debut tonight at the New York…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:16PMMonday, June 13, 2011
Word reaches us from Bill Marx on The Arts Fuse blog:It is with great sadness that I write that Caldwell Titcomb, a great friend of Boston theater and music, a dear friend of mine and of The…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:35PMSunday, June 12, 2011
Tom Garvey on Teatra Zar's limited engagement at the Charlestown Working Theater:American theatre doesn't really do "raw" anymore. In fact I can't think of a professional show I've seen in …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:34PM 
