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Monday, July 22, 2013

Harbor Lights Takes Root on Staten Island by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Harbor Lights Theater Company is trying to make theater on Staten Island more than an afterthought.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Are nonprofit theaters too closely tied to commercial producers? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Decades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein's…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:22AM[SHARE]

Friday, March 30, 2012

Kirsten Greenidge, a local playwright, turns to her family’s past for a world premiere at the Huntington Theatre by Laura Collins-Hughes

The details of Medford playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “The Luck of the Irish’’ are artistic inventions, but Greenidge’s inspiration was her own family history: …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AM[SHARE]

Monday, October 3, 2011

Kushner works are 'Tiny' in name only - Theater & art - The Boston Globe by Laura Collins-Hughes

Playwright draws on his epic plays - and real life

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Sharing their value of interactive theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kirk Lynn wondered if it would be possible to make a play composed largely of questions asked of the audience, infusing genuine, unscripted responses into a theatrical experience. Melanie Jo…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PM[SHARE]

Thursday, September 8, 2011

A ‘Candide’ that has a lot to say by Laura Collins-Hughes

Leonard Bernstein kept coming back to his musical “Candide’’ over the decades, reworking and adding to his original 1956 score. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation premiered …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:06PM[SHARE]

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Civility, self-assertion, and family connections by Laura Collins-Hughes

WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Playwright gets political by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Guare talks about “His Girl Friday,’’ his new comedy adapted from both the 1940 Howard Hawks film of the same name and the 1928 Broadway play on which that was based: …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30PM[SHARE]

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Arciniegas steps down; Publick goes on hiatus by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PM[SHARE]

Saturday, August 6, 2011

ART musical is Broadway-bound by Laura Collins-Hughes

NEW YORK - Three stories up, inside a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows gaze across 42nd Street at Madame Tussauds’s Manhattan outpost, Diane Paulus was four days into rehearsing t…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM[SHARE]

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Cultural diplomacy on Main St. in America by Laura Collins-Hughes

The US State Department, which has long sent American artists abroad as part of its cultural diplomacy efforts, is for the first time launching a sizable program to bring foreign performers …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM[SHARE]

With acting trio, 'All's Well' by Laura Collins-Hughes

This week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM[SHARE]

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Post-Broadway 'Tarzan' swings into North Shore by Laura Collins-Hughes

BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM[SHARE]

Saturday, July 2, 2011

A first season as staging ground by Laura Collins-Hughes

As ArtsEmerson’s first season was drawing to a close, executive director Robert Orchard seemed to be of two minds about how far the initiative had come. It was only last September when…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM[SHARE]

Friday, July 1, 2011