All stories by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff on BroadwayStars

Friday, February 4, 2011

Danger is her game by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

Q. Anna Deavere Smith wrote in her foreword to your book, “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero,’’ that you can focus perfectly well on conversation in the middle of…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:03PM
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Grisly scenes, in the mind’s eye by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

Fingernails pierce an eyeball and drain it of fluid. A knife slices into a woman while she’s having sex. A body implodes beneath the tires of a truck. In Irish playwright Mark O’…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:25PM
Saturday, January 29, 2011

A play that punctures perceptions of Ireland by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

The director Garry Hynes was on the phone from Ireland, and the talk had turned to John Millington Synge, the Irish playwright whose “ Playboy of the Western World’’ courte…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Monday, January 24, 2011

Shylock’s legacy, and what Shakespeare saw by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — A few years before the first performance of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,’’ in the 1590s, Queen Elizabeth’s physician, Rodrigo Lopez, …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:01PM
Saturday, January 22, 2011

On stage, taking risks by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

On the afternoon a few months ago when Elizabeth Streb stood several stories above a Manhattan street, tipped her body outward until it was horizontal with the sidewalk, and stepped off the …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Provocative play sees the faces behind the blackface by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

At some point in his teen years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins developed a fear of inviting people over.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Taking measure of a man by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — High on a hillside, amid the neogothic splendor of Mount Auburn Cemetery, sits a jaunty little block of granite, a headstone friendlier and more inviting than the rest. …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Finding light in the dark by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

Nelson Mandela was a prisoner, not a president, when Liesl Tommy and her family emigrated from South Africa to the United States in the mid-1980s. Riots against apartheid were raging in Cape…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, December 11, 2010

As Spidey lifts off, a view from the seats by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — A sense of fun and occasion — as well as a frisson of danger — pervaded the Foxwoods Theatre on 42d Street last Sunday afternoon as the audience filed in out of …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

Eye of the storm by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — The sorceress stands at the edge of a jagged cliff above roiling waters, lashed by rain as she commands the gale that howls around her. In the distance, a ship’s sails…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, November 27, 2010

A flower blooms by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — Musical theater is not a friendly medium for control freaks: There are too many collaborators, too many moving parts, too many chances for something to go awry. But that do…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Harm for the holidays by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

Peter DuBois’s speech has gotten a little salty lately, but he blames it on his work. The Huntington Theatre Company artistic director has spent the past several weeks directing “…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM

Sculpting the shape, seeing the light by Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

BETHANY, Conn. — Upstairs in the old red barn that has been his studio for 30 years, formalist sculptor Erwin Hauer was talking about Baroque music.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30AM