Interview

Short Fuse Interview: The Enigma of Vo Nguyen Giap — Military Mastermind, or “Marginalized Hero”?

October 19, 2013
Posted in ,

iIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap consistently and adamantly opposed it.

Read More

Fuse Interview: Ian Frazier on the Comic Genius of Ring Lardner

October 6, 2013
Posted in , ,

Ring Lardner wrote the funniest stand-alone sentence using the fewest words with which that feat can be done: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

Read More

Author Interview: George Scialabba’s “For the Republic” — An Independent View

September 15, 2013
Posted in , ,

George Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.

Read More

Theater Interview: A Conversation with Artistic Directors Olivia D’Ambrosio and Joseph Rodriguez

September 12, 2013
Posted in , ,

Teaming up allows Bridge Rep, as a new company, to do a much, much bigger show than we might ordinarily be able to do: we can offer our audiences a large ensemble piece like The Libertine, which would be beyond our reach otherwise.

Read More

Film Interview: “Secundaria” — Learning the Art of Ballet in Cuba

September 9, 2013
Posted in , ,

UPDATE: “Secundaria” will screen this Friday as part of BU’s Cinematheque series on Friday, September 13, 7 p.m. Boston University,

Read More

Theater Interview: New Rep’s “Elephant Man” — A Meditation on Frailty, Celebrity, and Healthcare

September 6, 2013
Posted in ,

Why does John Merrick get a room in the London Hospital for the rest of his life? Because he’s charming and he’s witty, while the pinheads next door to him didn’t fare that well.

Read More

Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part Two

September 6, 2013
Posted in , ,

Dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher didn’t become a working adaptor until the mid-1990s. He saw that some of his playwright friends were doing it and he thought: “Why not me?”

Read More

Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part One

September 4, 2013
Posted in ,

“A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine,” said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. Many theatergoers would agree.

Read More

Author Interview: Bestselling Novelist Douglas Kennedy Talks About “Five Days”

August 10, 2013
Posted in ,

Author Douglas Kennedy is beginning to generate a considerable readership in this country. He will be reading at the Boston Public Library on August 15 at 6 p.m.

Read More

Author Interview: Scholar Avner Ben-Zaken — Crafting a Unified History of Science

August 10, 2013
Posted in , ,

Intellectual frameworks such as “the rise of Europe,” “the decline of the East,” or “the clash of civilizations,” tell us more about the laziness of the human mind than they do about history.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives