A TROUPE'S MOVEMENT - JEWISH STAGE ART PRE-STALIN By BARBARA HOFFMAN
And so we have "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949," the somewhat misleadingly titled new show at the Jewish Museum.
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And so we have "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949," the somewhat misleadingly titled new show at the Jewish Museum.
Soon after the unthinkable we call 9/11, those of us who think about such things started thinking about the impact of such catastrophe on our culture. What kind of art would rise from the sh…
Sheila Callaghan's lat est play, "Roadkill Confidential," starts off with a strong David Lynch vibe. An FBI man in an eye patch (Danny Mastrogiorgio) spouts terse, cryptic lines. Blondie pl…
I'm sure you've heard the adage, “you must suffer for your art.” I've always considered myself an optimist with a pretty good life, albeit a bit of a worrier. So the worrisome vo…
Sam Mendes has directed only two films, but he seems to have already mastered a coveted Hollywood formula: the commercially viable prestige pic.
James Christy's intriguing "Never Tell" is about personal relationships, greed, trust and the various ways someone can take another person's life.
Award-winning lighting designer John Malinowski likes a juicy drama. But not when he's the star.
Banksy may be today's street art star, but if you want to see where it all began, visit the Museum of the City of New York's "City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection." T…
Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
Check out this exquisitely personal and tremendously important post entitled Are We Listening? from Sarah Taylor Ellis at her Compositions on Theater blog. As always Sarah is able to blen…
The 2007 Tony race is going to get ugly.
When the opportunity to do a Shakespearean classic came about, actor Avery Brooks and director Harold Scott thought of Shakespeare's "King Lear," but with a difference.
Next month playwright Tony Kushner's controversial work-in-progress about Laura Bush, "Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy," will be given a special benefit reading in Cambridge.
The Tony Award nominations embraced some plays without boffo box office.
Don't expect to see ''Annie'' or even ''Marty'' anytime soon, but ''Highway Ulysses'' hopes to usher in a new era of making music to ART theatergoers' ears.