Friday, August 9, 2013
The New York International Fringe Festival, which opened on Friday, relies on a jury of curators to assemble its lineup, which leads some critics to argue that it’s not exactly a “fringe…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMMonday, July 22, 2013
Monday, October 15, 2012
Decades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein�…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:22AMFriday, March 30, 2012
The details of Medford playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “The Luck of the Irish’’ are artistic inventions, but Greenidge’s inspiration was her own family history: …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Kirk Lynn wondered if it would be possible to make a play composed largely of questions asked of the audience, infusing genuine, unscripted responses into a theatrical experience. Melanie Jo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Leonard Bernstein kept coming back to his musical “Candide’’ over the decades, reworking and adding to his original 1956 score. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation premiered …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:06PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
John Guare talks about “His Girl Friday,’’ his new comedy adapted from both the 1940 Howard Hawks film of the same name and the 1928 Broadway play on which that was based: …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30PMSunday, August 14, 2011
With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
NEW YORK - Three stories up, inside a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows gaze across 42nd Street at Madame Tussauds’s Manhattan outpost, Diane Paulus was four days into rehearsing t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
The US State Department, which has long sent American artists abroad as part of its cultural diplomacy efforts, is for the first time launching a sizable program to bring foreign performers …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMThis week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMSaturday, July 2, 2011
As ArtsEmerson’s first season was drawing to a close, executive director Robert Orchard seemed to be of two minds about how far the initiative had come. It was only last September when…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMFriday, July 1, 2011
NEW YORK - Ask actor and playwright Charles Busch what he usually does for Fourth of July weekend, and his first response is a coy demurral.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PM 
