by Clifford Odets Directed by Daniel Fish American Repertory Theatre Cambridge, MA This is a big and long play, in three acts, and each of the first two runs almost an hour. The first act is heavily populated by characters, and decentered in action in not a particularly anticipatory way. The setting is the home […]
Celebrating Lukas Foss
Alea III Contemporary Music Ensemble in Residence at Boston University Tsai Performance Center Boston University Boston, MA Lukas Foss was a celebrated professor of music at Boston University for many years, and a composer of international renown, who died last year at the age of 86. In 1967, when Mstislav Rostropovich, the late great Russian […]
Boston University Art Gallery
The Shape of Abstraction February 5, 2010 – March 28, 2010 Given everything else that pictorial and sculptural abstraction take away, one hopes that shape remains. Thus the title of the show is something of a mystery. But, when I went through it, I got the basic idea: elemental geometrical forms and patterns are the […]
Yarmel Couture
Image courtesy of Liz Perlman It is always a pleasure to find competent, stylish and inventive clothing design mixed with humor and sharp wit. Liz Perlman, formerly affiliated with the costume shop at the American Repertory Theatre and now CEO of Costumeworks, Inc., the noted costume design and fabrication shop based in Somerville since 1996, […]
How I Learned To Drive
by Paula Vogel Directed by Tara L. Matkosky Boston Center for American Performance Boston University College of Fine Arts I had a great feeling about this production when I walked in and saw the sleek, fluorescent road divider arching up into the distance. It was the only fixed element of the set (designed by Caitlin […]