Monkeyhouse Performs ‘8 Feet’
The Malden dance troupe Monkeyhouse closed off part of Seaview Street in that city today to present “8 Feet,” a piece inspired, Artistic Director Karen Krolak said, by getting stuck…Continue Reading →
‘Visibility Dance’ Planned After Green Street Studios Announces Closing
Members of Cambridge’s dance community are planning “Circling the Dance Block – a Visibility Dance in Cambridge” for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, in response to Green Street Studios announcement…Continue Reading →
Green Street Dance Studios To Shut Down Due To ‘Significant Rent Increase’
Dancers getting ready for a class at Green Street Studios this evening were surprised by today’s announcement that the Cambridge dance rehearsal and performance space plans to shut down on…Continue Reading →
7 Fingers’ ‘Passengers’ Is Part Dance, Part Silent Movie, Part Avant-Garde Circus
In “Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers, the eight acrobats tumble across the stage of ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, balance on a tight rope, climb up long…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread And Puppet’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’ in Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts’ free, annual Summer In The City series. (I work…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, at 3 p.m. each Sunday afternoon from July 7 to Aug. 25, 2019. I…Continue Reading →
Double Edge Theatre Reimagines ‘Baron Munchausen’ As A Visionary Adventure
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red coat with gold epaulets, Munchausen climbs down from a rooftop…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
Unicorns! Gorgons! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale’s Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater
Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore” and R. Murray Schafer’s “A Medieval Bestiary”…Continue Reading →
Leonora Carrington’s Magic Realist Paintings Come Alive at Double Edge Theatre
UPDATE: Double Edge Theatre is performing “Leonora & Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro” again on Feb. 14 and 15, 2020, at its theater at 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, Massachusetts. The company will also…Continue Reading →