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Trojan Women [After Euripides]

April 18, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Ellen Lauren as Hecuba in Trojan Women

Play (2011)
Created and Performed
by Siti Company
Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke
Directed by Anne Bogart
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Theater District, Boston, MA
April 17-21, 2013

A tautly cathartic adaptation of the Euripides classic about the fate of the women who figure centrally in the Trojan War.

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

April 17, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Jason Craig as Beowulf in Beowulf

A Songplay by
Banana Bag & Bodice
Text and Lyrics by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Oberon Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 16 – May 5, 2013

A short and entertaining telling and enactment, in very rough outline, of the Norse classic.

Lady In The Dark

April 10, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Album cover of Lady In the Dark

Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013

A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

Operation Epsilon

April 3, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Up n' Atom Fruit Label

Play (2013)
by Alan Brody
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
March 7 – April 28, 2013

At the end of World War II, the Allies captured ten of the top German nuclear physicists and sequestered them at a hidden location in England in order to acquire information about how close they had come to producing controlled nuclear fission. The British bugged their conversations and created a transcript which was released in the 1990s. The play is based on those transcripts.

Master Class

April 1, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Maria Callas as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata 1958

Play (1995)
by Terrence McNally
Directed by
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
March 31 – April 21, 2013

Maria Callas, the noted Greek-American soprano, gives a master class to several vocal students, none of whom is particularly prepared for the intensity of her instruction.

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