153 stories by "Art"
The latest tour of the megahit musical Les Miserables is here in Boston. Currently, a big screen version is being filmed.Here is a video taken of Hugh Jackman as Valjean, tearing up his yel…
It seems Mike Daisey was also reflecting on the Chris Hayes piece I linked to this morning. He has now posted some thoughts on his own website. Here are just some of them:And I would l…
Playbill from Mike Daisey's showat The Public TheaterPhoto by Esther at Gratuitous ViolinsIt has been over a week since the revelation that Mike Daisey fabricated and embellished some key in…
Shortly before last weekend's controversy involving Mike Daisey and This American Life, Daisey had released the text of his show The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs online under a Creati…
I have a little trivia question for everybody in light of all the columns and blog posts being written about the Mike Daisey controversy.Ready?Who said the following:"It seemed best for the …
The Chicago Sun Times reports on a brawl at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night:It gets so quiet during the second movement of the Brahms Symphony No. 2, you could almost hear a pi…
Somerville Long Puddle , a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
It was only a few weeks ago that I posted about the question of loyalty to published stage directions. The subject was interesting enough to attract a number of comments to the post.Wi…
Garden Bike, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Out shooting another entry into Lord Somerville's Diary this past weekend.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
More funny acting advice here. From the mind of Constantine Ersatz, working from his top secret acting studio in Manhattan.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The New York Times covered Paula Vogel's playwriting boot camp that was recently held at Second Stage Theatre. She holds these informal training seminars around the country, "usually a…
Sam Gold's production of John Osborne's angry young cry of a play, Look Back in Anger, has just opened in New York City at the Laura Pels Theater. We got a look at the play when the Orfeo Gr…
In an interview with The Eye, a blog of the Columbia Spectator, playwright Theresa Rebeck talks about trying to hire a qualified woman to work on her new television show Smash:Working on thi…
So, Hollywood is increasingly involved in the news of the theater recently.Yesterday, word came that mega-producer Scott Rudin was suddenly pulling the plug on his financing of the Broadway …
Knees ache, bottoms numb up andwatches flicker. When a theatrical performance,even an enjoyable one, has gone on too long at one clip, the audience membersfeel it. And let's…
Here in Massachusetts, many are acquainted with the idea of offering tax incentives for the production of motion pictures. We currently offer pretty substantial breaks that have made it more…
Monday night I'll be on a panel about the recent phenomenon of Tweet Seats.The panel is sponsored by Arts in America and will be held at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Other paneli…
The Neofuturists sponsor a Twitter Play assignment every week. This week's assignment was "Write a one-tweet play that features an Apple."The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
After all, in this Internet age of the citizen critic, for every loss of a voice like the Village Voice's J. Hoberman, we have the rise of a whole chorus of folks like The Reply Girl!The Mir…
Not really. This is just leftover merchandise that capitalized on CBS's failed series Swingtown.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
As promised, at my film blog Gate Dimension, I've listed at nine hit films from the last 30 years that look at money in more than a cursory way. Most all of them are flawed, some are e…
Tom Garvey, writing in The Hub Review,tries to sort out our current culture's fascination with Downton Abbey. In his contemplation, he gets into theclass/race issue:"A series like …
