Review: FENCES at Shakespeare & Company
by Marc Savitt
- Jul 31, 2023
Audience members quickly engage with the characters before them virtually free of any doubt or distraction. We become deeply engaged and by the time real conflict sets in during act two, we feel both for them, and with them. August Wilson’s FENCES is considered a landmark work of American theatre and he a masterful storyteller.
Photo Flash: Ian Curtis' Iconic Guitar Returns To Manchester For Exhibition
by Stephi Wild
- Jun 15, 2021
For the first time since it’s well-publicised auction in 2020, and in its first major public display in over 30 years, the iconic, white Vox Phantom VI teardrop guitar owned by Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, made famous in the Love Will Tear Us Apart music video, has made a high-profile return to Manchester.
Greater Boston Stage Company Will Present MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 9, 2019
Greater Boston Stage Company presents Miracle on 34th Street a?" based on the much-loved motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Associate Artistic Director, Ilyse Robbins, Miracle on 34th Street reminds us that if you really believe, anything can happen. Performances run November 29 a?" December 22, 2019. The Press Opening is Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 7:00pm.
BWW Review: KING LEAR at Actors' Shakespeare Project
by Andrew Child
- Oct 22, 2019
Upon entering Chelsea Theatre Works for Actors' Shakespeare Project's King Lear, the audience is immediately immersed in a world that could be passed off as Laurie Anderson's riff on 'man cave'. An eclectic installation of vintage desk lamps and exposed light bulbs pulsate, casting shadows over a pile of radio transmitters, a neglected piano, and an assortment of discarded knick knacks that set designer Jon Savage has seamlessly incorporated into the deep-stained wood encircling the playing space. A vintage projector noisily clicks through slides edited by Cameron Willard showing images of monkeys in cages, minarets of mosques, and landscapes of deserts as David Reiffel's vapory soundscape throbs in the air. When Robert Walsh stumbles in barefoot as King Lear, it is apparent to whom this space belongs.
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