by Tina Packer Directed by Eric Tucker With Tina Packer and Nigel Gore Presented by The Nora Theatre Company Central Square Theater Cambridge, MA October 13 – November 6, 2011 Frederick Leighton, Desdemona (1888) A dramatic and discursive overview of a compelling thesis: that the Bard’s depiction of women evolved from significantly limited stereotypes, through […]
Archives for October 2011
Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish
Dawn Upshaw, Soprano Gilbert Kalish, Piano Distler Performance Hall Granoff Music Center Tufts University Medford, MA This dramatic, warm, funny and musically sophisticated program demonstrated not only the first-rate musical skills of these two consummate artists, but their greatly evident compatibility and capacity to deliver an intimate – though dramatic and expressive – musical conversation. […]
Collected Stories
Play (1996) by Donald Margulies New Repertory Theatre Arsenal Center for the Arts Watertown, MA Directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary With Bobbie Steinbach (Ruth Steiner), Liz Hayes (Lisa Morrison) October 9 – 30, 2011 A play about two women writers, initially mentor and student, and the issue of propriety and ownership of subject-matter, featuring the […]
Details of Thought
Towne Art Gallery Wheelock College 150 The Riverway Boston, MA Paintings by Kathi Packer and Richard Whitten September 20 – October 20, 2011 Richard Whitten, Cache Cache (Hide and Seek) (2008), oil on wood panel. Image courtesy of the artist. A condensed, but wonderful, sampling of the works of two contemporary painters who, in quite […]
Next Fall
Play (2010) By Geoffrey Nauffts Directed by Scott Edmiston Speakeasy Stage Company Boston, MA September 16 – October 15, 2011 With Will McGarrahan (Adam), Dan Roach (Luke), Amelia Broome (Arlene), Robert Walsh (Butch), Deb Martin (Holly), Kevin Kaine (Brandon). A heartfelt, dramatic yet entertaining, treatment of a gay couple with a difference of age and […]