Local theater community examines #MeToo in Town Hall taking place in Central Square
The theater community opens its doors Tuesday to talk about inclusivity and ending harassment in the performing arts, with the goal of making the region “a model for the national theater community.”
‘Colorism’ kicks off arts and dialogue series with a freewheeling stop at the beauty salon
A free Arts & Community Dialogues Series begins Wednesday and runs through May on such weighty topics as race, immigration, education and the American dream, using a simple but potent formula: Use the art to ease into the dialogue.
With prep school standing in for Italy, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is Friday
Boston Theater Co.’s Teen Touring Troupe brings a free production of Shakespeare’s comedic romp “Much Ado About Nothing” to town Friday, with some tweaks – including visits to the principal, a high school dance and hall monitors.
Davis Square Theatre will be The Rockwell, ending confusion with other Davis theater
The Davis Square Theatre is changing its name, reopening Sept. 12 as The Rockwell, and it’s for good reasons, albeit for reasons most people could have warned management about before the 160-seat venue opened four years ago.
Those brash upstarts, Mozart and Barnum, are stars of Moonbox’s next theater season
It turns out composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and hoaxer P.T. Barnum have a fair amount in common, starting with being the basis for the Moonbox Productions theater company’s 2016-17 season.
‘Spider Cult: The Musical’ is bloody, sexy, sci-fi apocalypse you’ve been waiting for
Poet and author Jade Sylvan talks about “Spider Cult: The Musical” – the “apocalyptic lesbian sci-fi horror burlesque musical” now in its final weeks before taking the stage for four performances at Harvard Square’s Oberon.
It’s the smaller things that count at A.R.T. amid a season without Paulus as director
The past five years have seen Harvard’s A.R.T. do a reliable business sending plays from Cambridge to Broadway, but that may not be the case for the upcoming season.
Small ASP casts will ‘tear the veil off’ season featuring Shakespeare classics, a Marlowe
The heavy hitters are coming in the four-play season announced last week by the Somerville-based Actors’ Shakespeare Project, including “Hamlet,” “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Edward II” by Christopher Marlowe. It starts in October.
Scenes from ‘The Convert’ and actor Q&A make connection with Black Lives Matter
The connection between colonialism and the Black Lives Matter movement gets made explicit at a free event Tuesday at the Central Square Theater, with scenes from the play “The Convert” followed by a moderated discussion between the actors and audience.
Poisonous politics of Bard’s ‘Richard II’ lands in Cambridge at a telling moment
Just as the country becomes fully engrossed by the questions of who succeeds Barack Obama in the White House, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project brings the succession drama “Richard II” to Central Square for a three-week run.
