Civility, self-assertion, and family connections
WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.
WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.
John Guare talks about “His Girl Friday,’’ his new comedy adapted from both the 1940 Howard Hawks film of the same name and the 1928 Broadway play on which that was based: …
With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.
NEW YORK - Three stories up, inside a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows gaze across 42nd Street at Madame Tussauds’s Manhattan outpost, Diane Paulus was four days into rehearsing t…
The US State Department, which has long sent American artists abroad as part of its cultural diplomacy efforts, is for the first time launching a sizable program to bring foreign performers …
This week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…
BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.
As ArtsEmerson’s first season was drawing to a close, executive director Robert Orchard seemed to be of two minds about how far the initiative had come. It was only last September when…
NEW YORK - Ask actor and playwright Charles Busch what he usually does for Fourth of July weekend, and his first response is a coy demurral.