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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" ev…
The Harbor Lights Theater Company is trying to make theater on Staten Island more than an afterthought.
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's…
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: …
Playwright draws on his epic plays - and real life
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…
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 …
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.
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: …
With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.
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…
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 …
This week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…
BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.
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…
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.
