153 stories by "Art"
Bob Cratchit Hangs with Christmas Present, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.This is year 13 for me in A Trolley Christmas Carol!The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
A Perfect Pie, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Motley Crew, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The Hub's theater scene is the subject of chatter on the Internet these days.HowlRound, the playwright-centered blog of Theater Commons, is focusing on Boston this week. There are gues…
Trailer for my solo performance this fall. The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
101_0204, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
A scene from 3C, David Adjmi's new play which is being sued by Three's Company.1. Playwright David Adjmi's new play 3C just closed in New York, but it may not see a revi…
Porter Square Black and White - E, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Peter Marks, writing in the Washington Post, thinks about the reasons we are seeing so many of the Bard's plays updated to 20th and 21st century settings. And he wonders about the cost…
Robert Brustein served as the moderator of a panel at the recent Theatre Communications Guild convention here in Boston. His opening remarks were published on The Huffington Post this …
Tom Garvey, at The Hub Review, sees the gears of the free market existentially grinding away at the very idea of criticism: Now critics have always been under attack. Always have …
Peir Sea Sun, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Recently, Harvard Business School published a report entitled What Makes a Critic Tick! The purpose of the report in the words of the authors was to "investigate the determinants of ex…
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There's a lot of discussion of the role of the critic swirling in the fringes of the media these days. A few weeks ago, A.O. Scott, the film critic for the New York Times, received a less th…
In Slate, Jillian Goodman looks at the recent publication of two plays by Denis Johnson, who is a writer known more widely for his novels.Goodman uses the occasion to examine the pros and co…
In the Los Angeles Times, Charles McNulty reads into the current Tony nominations for Best Play.Earlier in the season I wrote a Critic's Notebook examining the difficulty dramatists were hav…
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Near Logan Airport - Airplane Coming in for a Landing Over Neptune Road Homes, a photo by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr.From the National ArchivesThe Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Thea…
Gray Sky Branches, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
I just got back from the Tribeca Film Festival, where I saw the world premiere of Rubberneck, an intense indie thriller set in the world of Boston science labs.It's directed by and sta…
Vineyard Flowers, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The New York Times has a post-mortem on the closing of the recent MCC revival of the infamous musical Carrie, (which flopped on Broadway back in 1988.)But if you didn't get down to New York …
The Huntington Theatre Company announced that Governor Deval Patrick has proclaimed today to be August Wilson Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. More here.The Mirror Up To Natur…
Father Pike has got you covered with this meditation on a famous story from John's Gospel.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
