Elka Schumann, co-founder of Vermont’s legendary progressive activist Bread and Puppet Theater, died Sunday, afternoon Aug. 1, “surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter,” DeeDee Halleck writes. Schumann—”our…Continue Reading →
“Is this the beginning?” asks a man in a T-shirt who steps out of the audience of Double Edge Theatre’s new spectacle “Memories and Dreams” to take center stage at…Continue Reading →
Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of…Continue Reading →
Looking to help Puppet Showplace Theater after alleged embezzlement reported last month left their bank account “fully depleted”? The Board of Trustees of the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution is directing folks who…Continue Reading →
Puppet Showplace Theater announced yesterday that their “bank account had been fully depleted” after an alleged embezzlement from the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution. “The treasurer noticed some suspicious transactions after…Continue Reading →
“Since the pandemic started in early to mid-March, we’ve been the first people that have been cancelled and had to refund tickets, people who lost their jobs first,” says Mark…Continue Reading →
How can theaters adapt to reduce the spread of coronavirus? That’s the daunting question that the “first edition” of the “Roadmap for Recovery and Resilience for Theater” from Harvard’s American…Continue Reading →
Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield announced yesterday that it will postpone its planned summer season to summer of 2021 due to coronavirus concerns, but beginning in August will present a…Continue Reading →
How can theater return as long as coronavirus threatens group gatherings? Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater and the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have announced…Continue Reading →
For DigBoston, I recently previewed “Detroit Red,” a “theatrical exploration of the life of Malcolm X as he dwelled and came of age in the Roxbury section of Boston,” which…Continue Reading →