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 01:03PMFingernails 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 01:25PMThe 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 11:30AMNEW 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 09:01PMOn 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 01:00PMAt some point in his teen years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins developed a fear of inviting people over.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMCAMBRIDGE — 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 01:00PMNelson 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 01:00PMNEW 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 01:00PMNEW 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 01:00PMCAMBRIDGE — 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 01:00PMPeter 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 01:00PMBETHANY, Conn. — Upstairs in the old red barn that has been his studio for 30 years, formalist sculptor Erwin Hauer was talking about Baroque music.
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