153 stories by "Art"
Two posts making the circuit today.Both of them are about being a playwright in the Big Apple.On HotReview, Barbara Hammond talks about the sacrifices one makes to keep at the stage writing …
Several bloggers, among them George Hunka at Superfluities Redux, have linked to a Terry Teachout essay in this month's Commentary.Teachout, after seeing, (or enduring, as he might say,) An …
It was almost a year ago that we started making our comedic short film The Oblique Sector - a kind of homage to The Twilight Zone crossed with a comic cautionary tale about internet dating. …
John Moore of the Denver Post looks into the the interesting statistic that "only 37 percent of the productions offered by the 10 leading Shakespeare festivals in North America were written …
Today, Tom Garvey reviews Stoneham's production of Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Back in 2007 the pop star Christina Aguilera did a rearrangement of the Andrew Sisters…
Last week, two of my fellow bloggers were latecomers to the new musical play The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, which just wrapped up a run at Playwrights Horizons.Boston playwright John K…
Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune takes a look at Toronto's Luminato Festival which just concluded:But for all the lofty artistic aims spoken at Luminato, which claims to be the largest mul…
Right on the heels of the American Theatre article assessing the Diane Paulus transition at the American Repertory Theatre, The Boston Globe takes a look at ArtsEmerson, Robert Orchard's bol…
In the new issue of American Theatre, Chris Wallenberg has a pretty lengthy article on the transition and transformation of the American Repertory Theater under Diane Paulus.The article does…
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The scene outside the Starlight Theater on Nantucket before our @obliquesector movie premier. #NFF2011, a photo by BradKellyPhoto on Flickr.This shot is by my friend Brad Kelly - also our Di…
Postcards have arrived!, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Via Flickr:Postcards for our film The Oblique Sector arrived today! They look great. Check out our film's website at www.obliquesec…
From Indie Wire:Werner Herzog has lent his voice to Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés' infamous children's book "Go the F**k to Sleep." His reading will debut tonight at the New York Public …
Word reaches us from Bill Marx on The Arts Fuse blog:It is with great sadness that I write that Caldwell Titcomb, a great friend of Boston theater and music, a dear friend of mine and of The…
Tom Garvey on Teatra Zar's limited engagement at the Charlestown Working Theater:American theatre doesn't really do "raw" anymore. In fact I can't think of a professional show I've seen in …
This time for the British Financial Times reporter John Gapper.There isn't much new in this interview. However, I get the feeling Mamet seems to be enjoying this attention he is getting for …
In response to Brendan Kiley's Seattle Stranger piece about the Intiman Theater's collapse, Jeremy Barker, writing at Culturebot, questions the very popular meme of the moment: bad boards ar…
This week we have seen the closing of another theater - Florida Stage.Right on the heels of this, we have Brandon Kiley's article in the Seattle Stranger in which he tries to get at the bott…
The Alamo Drafthouse, an independent movie theater chain in Texas, created the following PSA to run before R-rated movies. The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Oak Bluffs Edge II, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Old style post office boxes at Alley's General Store, Martha's Vineyard, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
Unfortunately, I had to miss the Boston Theatre Marathon this year. I've directed and performed in the Marathon in different years, and I have also sat through the whole day as an audience m…
There are two posts out there that call attention to some interesting paradoxes in David Mamet's new found conservatism, which is outlined in Andrew Ferguson's piece on the Pulitzer Prize Wi…
I added a Twitter feed to the top of my right column. It is comprised of tweets from the Boston Theater Marathon today.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
The Village Voice interviewed some theater artists about what Avant Garde means today, or if such a thing even exists:Nick Jones, PlaywrightAnybody truly radical is probably working on the f…
