April 27, 2011 at 12:02 am
We all know it takes a lot of people to put on a show, and everyone has their place, from PA’s to producers, actors to directors. But doctors??? Show doctors?????? Come on, now. Apparently there are a solid handful of big broadway musicals going up that have relied heavily on show doctors to rewrite […]
April 21, 2011 at 12:09 am
In preparation for reading Ken Urban’s “Sense of an Ending” I came across a really concise yet informative timeline of Rwandan history. Handy, handy. Enjoy. (Is that the right thing to say when you’re talking about Rwandan history?) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1070329.stm
April 12, 2011 at 9:38 am
So it’s no secret that here at the BU School of Theatre, we take on difficult and often disturbing subjects as the bread and butter of the plays we produce. Rape, Nazis, incest, murder…you name it, we tackle it. Ben Brantley sparked an interesting discussion on the Arts Beat blog entitled “The Joys of Feel-Bad […]
April 7, 2011 at 12:36 am
Holy crap! Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of the Brother/Sister Plays, is absolutely incredible! I read his bio and thought, am I the last person to the table?? How come I’ve never heard of this guy until now?? In his artist statement about the Brother/Sister Plays, he talks about how he gives a voice to part […]
March 29, 2011 at 1:54 am
Time for some more sad news. Lanford Wilson passed away last week. The NY Times wrote up a really nice feature on him that includes a slideshow of various productions of his plays. But the real gem is the feature Ben Brantley wrote about him. An interesting and affectionate assessment of Wilson’s work. Rest in […]
March 21, 2011 at 12:50 pm
The NY Times published this interesting mix of reader reviews of Arcadia in NYC. It brought up some questions for me: who gets to write a review? In this age of facebook, yelp and the many other forums where one can gather and consider the opinions of general consumers, why do “reviews” of theatre still […]
March 10, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Theater in the Open, a troupe in Newburyport Mass, has dispensed with charging any entrance fee for their summer shows in the hopes that audiences will grow and so will their base of donors. This is, of course, nothing new (*cough*commshakes*cough*) but I really liked what the artistic director had to say at the end […]
The Boston Globe had great things to say about Ti-Jean, playing now at the Central Square Theatre. The review is absolutely glowing: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/02/22/a_devilish_time_in_ti_jean__his_brothers/ Congrats to Phil Berman, Hampton Fluker, Kristin Calabria and Joseph Ahmed!!!
February 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm
In light of Fallujah, Ajax, and Theatre of War all living in our consciousness right now, this article on a former marine who decided (and has managed) to act when he got back from war in the Middle East seemed pretty relevant and interesting to me. I particularly got a kick out of the part […]
February 16, 2011 at 12:35 pm
So as I was doing some background research for this weeks play, The Vigil, I repeatedly came across a term that I’d never heard before: “indie theater”. Apparently this is a thing. A vibrant thing – in NYC, at least – and they’ve got a pretty comprehensive website to prove it. Without further ado, I pass […]
February 7, 2011 at 9:42 am
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has a new play going to Broadway: Good People starring Frances McDormand, Tate Donovan and Estelle Parsons. Not only is it a “much anticipated Broadway follow-up” to Rabbit Hole, his Pulitzer-winner, it’s also set in Southie – the first of his plays to explore his South Boston […]
February 1, 2011 at 12:51 am
OK, this article is a bit of a downer and very business-heavy in content, but unfortunately it’s a realistic look at the business world we’ll be (re)entering once we’re no longer at BU. I particularly dislike the part about turning part of this historic theatre into an Applebee’s. It does give a brief but […]
