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Lydia Diamond

Theater Review: “The Bluest Eye” — Pieces of a Classic

Dramatist Lydia R. Diamond makes an honorable effort to adapt Toni Morrison’s novel to the stage, but with mixed results.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Awoye Timpo, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Lydia Diamond, Lydia R. Diamond, The Bluest Eye, Toni-Morrison

Theater Review: “Grimm” but Entertaining

Charm’d magic casements, opening on the Foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. — To a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819 GRIMM: The Brothers’ Tales Remixed & Re-imagined . . . Written by Gregory Maguire, Kristen Greenidge, Melinda Lopez, Marcus Gardley, Lydia R. Diamond, John Kuntz, and John ADEkoje. Directed by Summer L. Williams and […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Brothers Grimm, Company One, Gregory Maguire, John ADEkoje, John Kuntz, Kirsten Greenidge, Lydia Diamond, Marcus Gardley, Melinda-Lopez, Shawn LaCount, Summer l. Williams

Theater Reviews: The State of the Union

Artists should “no longer huddle in the confines of a painted box set” but instead join together to “find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time” and dramatize “the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world.” – Hallie Flanagan, Federal Theatre Project Stick […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: American, American Repertory Theater, Arena-Stage, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Clifford Odets, Daniel Fish, Diane Paulus, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Kenny Leon, Lydia Diamond, New York, Paradise Lost, Public Theater, stage, Stick Fly, Suzan-Lori-Parks, The Book of Grace, Theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2010

A recent piece in the New York Times provides further proof of the increasingly pernicious stranglehold marketing exerts on the production of new voices in the theater. By Bill Marx Let’s face it—the fastest growing segment of non-profit hiring in the arts over the past decade or so, marketing, is now pretty much in the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Boston, Brandeis Theater Company, Central Square Theater, Clifford Odets, Daniel Fish, Emerson Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Lydia Diamond, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Theater, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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