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Wellesley College

Book Interview: Novelist and Short-Story Writer Nathan Englander Is Happy to Go Back to Basics

Nathan Englander’s first play, “The Twenty-Seventh Man,” opens at the Public Theater in New York tonight. Fuse Editor Bill Marx spoke to the acclaimed, best-selling writer about the script and the production when Englander visited Wellesley College recently.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Barry Edelstein, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, The Public Theater, The Twenty-seventh Man, Wellesley College, What We Talk about When We Talk About Anne Frank, Yiddish

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2011

Highlights this month in museums around New England include an exhibition of poetic and playful furniture, photographs and videos that radically rethink how a museum should treat art objects, and a show featuring an African artist who specializes in large, shimmering sculptures composed of recycled liquor bottle tops. By Peter Walsh. The van Otterloo Collection, […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Bennington Collects, Bennington Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, El Anatusi, Jon Brooks, Labeltalk 2011: Art of the Ancient World, Marianne Mueller, PEM, The van Otterloo Collection, Wellesley College, Williams College Museum of Art

Theater Review: Actors From the London Stage at Wellesley

Once again we are indebted to Wellesley College for bringing to town Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS). This is the fifth visit the 35-year-old institution has made here. Each fall five seasoned Shakespeareans from England take up residence at U.S. colleges for a week, conducting workshops and seminars with students. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Actors-From-the-London-Stage, Caldwell-Titcomb, Wellesley College, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010

By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Andrea Fraser, Asian Journeys, Boston, Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Charles Simic, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, George Nama, harvard-university, Lisa Fischmann, Luis Meléndez, mcmullen-museum, Museum of Fine Arts, New England, peter-Walsh, Rockefellers, Stephen Vitiello, Visual Arts, Wellesley College

Theater Review: Actors From the London Stage

Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS) proves that when it comes to the Bard the minimal may be maximal. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare’s challenging “King Lear” is the vehicle for this year’s fall tour of the troupe called Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS). This project was begun in 1975, and has been flourishing […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Actors-From-the-London-Stage, AFTLS, Caldwell-Titcomb, King Lear, Wellesley College

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