Halloween, courtesy of a bunch of bloody nerds
Sure, Salem is more haunted than Cambridge. But Cambridge has more nerds — and gore.
Poe party continues Thursday with cemetery reading
The Edgar Allan Poe parties start Wednesday with a musical tribute and continues Thursday with a reading in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Harvard Square getting twice the ‘Rocky Horror’
If you were wondering where the world headquarters of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was, wonder no more: It’s Harvard Square. Oberon premieres a Friday live version to complement the square’s Saturday midnight showings.
Amanda Palmer joins tonight’s Org: Asylum show at Oberon
The minds behind the Org: Asylum show tonight at Oberon promised more artists were being added to the lineup, and they weren’t crazy. One very notable addition: Amanda Palmer.
‘Asylum’ at Oberon welcomes lovers of dark art
After a curated show of music, dance and film called “Murder Ballads” at Oberon in Harvard Square, no one expected its Sept. 30 follow-up of sunlit meadows and fluffy bunnies.
Housing is hopeless, fatherhood daunting, but at least there’s ‘No Good News’
“There Is No Good News: A Comedy” was pitched to ImprovBoston comedy club as being about the U.S. financial crisis. Then writer and monologist David Mogolov found out his wife was pregnant. The show and the baby had “the same gestation period,” and both changed quite a bit from their conception.
Amanda Palmer set to star in ‘Cabaret’ at A.R.T.
Amanda Palmer, who was most recently in Cambridge for her Evelyn Evelyn project with Jason Webley (portraying musical conjoined twins), has another project on the way with the American Repertory Theater: starring in a production of “Cabaret.”
Review: ‘Pillowman’ production stuffed with distracting padding
Granted “The Pillowman” is showing in Harvard’s experimental theater, but the experimentation has gotten out of hand. This is a production that could benefit from a director having fewer ideas, and possibly fewer resources.
Harvard Brit turns awkward situations into ‘Entertaining Mr. Sloane’
A production of Joe Orton’s wicked “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” closing this weekend seems to have found the perfect young schemer of the title role — Jack Cutmore-Scott, an unflappable and funny Brit in his senior year at Harvard.
Oberon keeps box office service low, online service fees high
You could have bought tickets early for tonight’s Naked Girls Reading (or another event at Oberon) if you feared the show would sell out. If it was about saving money, though, you needn’t have bothered. With service fees, advance tickets that seem to save 25 percent off the full price in reality save only 7.5 percent.
