Interview
October 31, 2017
A discussion with the noted accompanist, voice teacher, and artistic director of the eminent vocal music series, New York Festival of Song, now celebrating its thirtieth season, about their upcoming Bernstein centennial celebration concert in New York featuring Songfest (1977), Bernstein’s acclaimed work based on poems by thirteen noted American authors.
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Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education
Performance, Play (2016)
Created, Written and Performed by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Leonard Foglia
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
August 20 – September 17, 2016
A superbly conceived and delivered, and very moving, inquiry into racism, schools and incarceration.
Anthropoid
Film (2016)
Directed by Sean Ellis
Screenplay by Sean Ellis and
Anthony Frewin
Based in fact, a dramatization of the plan, in the early 1940s, by Czech freedom fighters to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high ranking Nazi dubbed The Butcher of Prague.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Play (1597)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Steven Maler
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Boston Common, Boston
July 20 – August 7, 2016
A terrific and very fun production of Shakespeare’s early comedy, very high on language play and relatively low on plot.
Cuisine & Confessions
Circus, Performance
Creation and staging by
Shana Carroll and
Sebastien Soldevila
Les 7 Doigts de la Main
(The 7 Fingers)
in conjunction with ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Theater District, Boston
July 12 – August 7, 2016
The small, imaginative, Montreal-based circus is back with some great moments stitched together loosely with a theme based on cooking.