153 stories by "Art"
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
For some reason, I decided to just start going through my links over the right side of the page there. These are the links to sites that cover theater in the Boston area and beyond, includin…
Ferguson Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCullochEverything is theater, right?In his book The Necessity of Theater; The Art of Watching and Being Watched, philosopher Paul Woodruff attempts a d…
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The cast of Peter Snoad's Identity Crisis. At Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, a quiet riot is taking place. Peter Snoad's play Identity Crisis, directed by Jackie Davis, has a diverse a…
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Funny or Die has announced and put tickets on sale for their second annual summer Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival!You can visit the official Funny or Die website here. My wife and I at…
Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter and Suzanne Somers in Three's CompanyPlaywright David Adjmi is in a tough spot.He spent a lot of time writing a play, a dark satire of a well-known sitcom of t…
My own little meme.To understand, you can read all about the controversy over this sleepwalking man here.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Check out our Kickstarter campaign for all the details. Our Kickstarter launch was great, but we've really tapered off. The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
A little video I made when thinking about faith and the surveillance society.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Lonely Runner The Day After, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
There is a lot of hyperventilating over the state of theater criticism lately.Just a few weeks ago, we had one of the old lions, retired New Yorker Critic John Lahr, assailing the younger ge…
Light Trails - Massachusetts Avenue, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.I had the camera on a tripod in the car. But Boston roads are very bumpy.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and …
Jupiter Rising, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Abstract photography with Oil and Water.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Refined Or Philistine? Critic or Reviewer?(Seth Numrich in the Lincoln Center production of Golden Boy)The critical community rallied to separate camps this past week after former New Yorker…
Tax credits for film production are a familiar enough concept for those who follow Massachusetts political and cultural news.As I posted last year, the concept of tax credits for large, Broa…
Rendering of one of the casino proposals for outside Boston.This is an important date in the future of the Bay State's cultural landscape. Today is the deadline for casino developers to…
Phil Tayler and Erica Spyres in MARRY ME A LITTLE.Photo by Andrew Brilliant/ Brilliant Pictures.The critical waters in Boston are growing shallower by the year, as evidenced by To…
New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley recaps his winter vacation, during which he saw no plays, but happily saw New York stage actors in many of the end-of-year, award season movies.In …
2013 is getting into full swing with a lot of openings Here are some of the shows you can see in and around the Hub this weekend: Opening A variety of Boston's best actresses …
Michael Feingold, writing in the Village Voice, takes in the latest Pulitzer Prize winning play to have originated at a regional theater outside of New York City. Water by the Spoonful, la…
More great news for Boston theater. One of our playwrights, Melinda Lopez, has been chosen for one of the Mellon Foundation's residencies for playwrights, which will provide salaries a…
Rosebud Diner- Somerville MA, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Over on Salon, Laura Miller interviews literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who has just published Waiting for the Barbarians, a collection of his criticisms.The short interview ranges through…
