'Detroit Red': Malcolm X Comes Of Age In Boston
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 →
Gloria Steinem At ART’s ‘Gloria’: ‘I Don’t Have Time For You To Applaud Because We Have A Lot Of Organizing To Do’
The audience broke into applause as Gloria Steinem strode onto the stage at the end of Jan. 30 opening night performance of “Gloria: A Life” at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.…Continue Reading →
From The Co-Founder Of Wee The People, A Puppet Show For Kids About Standing Up To Strongmen
“Kids don’t get enough credit that they can understand what’s going on. Racism isn’t going to end until people start noticing it,” says Tanya Nixon-Silberg, co-founder of Wee the People,…Continue Reading →
This #MeToo ‘Medusa’ Isn’t The Gorgon You’ve Been Told About
One of the terrible things about the way the story of Medusa is usually told is that her iconic snake hair and petrifying visage are a punishment—for being the victim…Continue Reading →
How I Ended Up In A Boat With Captain Ahab Chasing The White Whale In A.R.T.’s ‘Moby-Dick’
Perhaps I should have been mindful that stepping into any boat with Captain Ahab—who doomed his crew via his maniacal pursuit of revenge upon the white whale that took his…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread & Puppet’s ‘Honey Let’s Go Home! Opera’
When people think of Bread and Puppet Theater, they naturally tend to think of the giant puppets and the garlic-slathered sourdough bread that the company serves after performances. But it…Continue Reading →
An Evening Of Crankies—‘The Original Moving Pictures’—With Katherine Fahey And Friends
“They were like the original moving pictures,” says Katherine Fahey of “An Evening of Crankies,” which she performs at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline on Monday, Dec. 9, at 7:30…Continue Reading →
‘Too Fat For China’: Phoebe Potts’s One-Mom Comedy About The Sordid, Racist Adoption Industry
“Every baby is born into a story of how they got there,” Phoebe Potts says at the start of “Too Fat for China,” her one-woman “comic look at the agony…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater's 'Diagonal Life’ Challenges Baby Jails, Global Warming, The Unthinkable
“Reality is either horizontal or vertical or both,” a woman explains early in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis,” which the Vermont troupe performed at First Church…Continue Reading →
Photos: Boston Circus Guild Brings 'Cirque Of The Dead' To Oberon For Halloween
“The history of Oberon is clouded in mystery,” one of the paranormal investigators warns at the start of the Boston Circus Guild’s “Cirque of the Dead,” “which is to say…Continue Reading →