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The Roxbury International Film Festival, New England’s largest film festival celebrating works by and about people of color is happening through June 26 with in-person screenings, online viewing options, and plenty of exciting events.
BSC Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, who directs this production, said that WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE? Is a tribute to Gershwin’s indominable spirit and love-for-life.
Guerilla Opera’s artistic director, Aliana de la Guardia, hosted a warmly informal Zoom preview of the company’s current work in progress, Island of Hope, Island of Tears (working title) which served effectively as a promotion of a planned in-person workshop as well as an opportunity to engage i
As long as the current standard theatrical canon is taught in schools, young artists will continue to riff on the sanctified artists from their syllabi.
In response to the unprecedented challenges the last year brought, WTF embarked upon an innovative artistic endeavor that ensured the voices of their artists could be heard loudly and clearly around the globe.
There is a lot good about Enigma Chamber Opera’s new meta-comedy adaptation of Mozart’s The Impresario, but the highest praise must be reserved for its formatting as a highly scroll-able hour-long entertainment (mainly because it is actually at most a 20 minute performance trapped inside a redun
WISH YOU WERE HERE presents a reality which, on the surface, might seem rather different than our own, but below is far more similar.
WTF Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield’s choice to revive PARADISE BLUE is another of many highly relevant selections given prevailing racial tensions.
Streaming this weekend, Boston Experimental Theatre Company’s latest offering, Zahhak, the Legend of the Serpent King! is another sample of a paired down performance that actually works.
THE CONJURORS' CLUB is an immersive virtual experience in which the audience gets to see their fellow patrons on the zoom screen, try their hand at sleight of hand, and have a close-up view of the tricks and illusions as the magicians ply their trade live.
“Who knew when we started our 10x10 New Play Festival ten years ago that it would become one of our most popular events of the year?” said Artistic Director Julianne Boyd.
Before the shutdown, the final piece I reviewed for Broadway World was Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION which included Glass Pieces, a hypnotic embrace of the geometrics of a theatre space by Phillip Glass and Jerome Robbins.
In 1891, years before Sigmund Freud would revolutionize the way the human mind is perceived and the significance of symbolism, childhood and sexuality on a person’s psyche, German playwright Frank Wedekind challenged the taboos around the sexual tension of young people with a play that would chall
These characters and the circumstances that bring them together are different.
Directed by Obie Award Winner, Whitney White, the piece is billed as a comedy that “marches into the muddy intersection of romantic entanglement, identity, pride, and survival.
PHOTOGRAPH 51, the second offering in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2020 season on Audible Theater is a biographical piece.
The presentation of the 2020 season at this time, in the audio only format, represents a creative approach to keeping the arts alive during the pandemic.
After registering for a performance by Zoom Theatre, you get an automated email which explains that you will be able to be heard by the actors and other audience members during this virtual performance.
When performance spaces were shuttered, many companies shuttered their imaginations in solidarity with the rows of seats, choosing to hibernate until they could return to live, in-person events and allowing both to collect dust in the meantime.
the audience was sincerely and repeatedly thanked for the opportunity to share music that is a?oejust not the same as sitting at homea??.
Dold demonstrates mastery of an overwhelming amount of dialogue and the nuance necessary to present a total of some 19 characters.
With director Vahdat Yeganeh and a team of artists streaming in live from around the globe, Boston Experimental Theatre has perfectly divined that piece of performance art that neither begrudgingly embraces its virtual form nor coyly alludes to its obvious limits, but rather exists in a way that cou
There are many good reasons you might choose to see GODSPELL under the tent at Berkshire Theatre Group's Colonial Theatre.
TC Squared's Volume Up series of virtual one act plays is posed to convince audiences they are up for the task of taking their programs to the digital realm for the time being.
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The Norwegians Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (9/04-10/04) |
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The Nutcracker The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (11/27-11/29) |
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Hamlet Tina Packer Playhouse (8/13-8/30) |
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By Any Other Name SpeakEasy Stage Company (5/07-5/29) |
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Gunhild Carling at City Winery Boston City Winery Boston (9/16-9/16) |
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Floyd's Row at Harmony on the Green in Lexington Harmony on the Green (3/13-3/13) |
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Golden Girls The Laughs Continue Academy of Music Theatre (11/18-11/18) VIDEOS |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/28-11/28) VIDEOS |
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Martha Graham Dance Company The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (4/24-4/24) |
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Sasha Velour: Travesty The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (9/26-9/26) |
