Debra Cash
Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.
The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.
This week, The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced that Cathy Edwards will become NEFA’s new Executive Director.
You’d be a fool to miss taking advantage of Boston’s Mayor’s Holiday.
If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.
Isango’s Magic Flute/ Impempe Yomlingo is lit by flashes of brilliance. Most can be traced directly to Mandisi Dyantyis’ reorchestration of Mozart’s orchestral score for an ensemble of marimbas.
One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham’s work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.

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