What happens when you take India’s two-millennia-old epic the “Mahabharata” and retell it with an all-female cast? That’s the experiment Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) explores in its performances at…Continue Reading →
“When a legally purchased gun, symbol of the free, turns on a school and takes 17 lives, are the free still free? Or are they irresponsible and stupid?” The performer,…Continue Reading →
When “The Basic Bye-bye Show,” which Bread and Puppet Theater performs at Boston’s Spontaneous Celebrations from April 19 to 22, was developed in performances at the troupe’s Glover, Vermont, farm…Continue Reading →
With high-wire walkers, trapeze artists and acrobats, the Big Apple Circus performs under a “Big Top” tent at Somerville’s Assembly Row through Sunday, May 6. Update: The show has been…Continue Reading →
“Thank you. You people are part of a movement,” Maurice Emmanuel Parent said as he stood on a chair in the lobby of Cambridge’s Central Square Theater last night, glass…Continue Reading →
Photos from the Montreal’s 13th annual Festival de Casteliers, a showcase of international puppetry (which sponsored my visit) from March 8 to 11. Thursday “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège…Continue Reading →
“The show is a love letter to theater and show biz,” Ronnie Burkett says during a question-and-answer session after performing his “The Daisy Theatre” at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre last Thursday…Continue Reading →
MONTREAL—It was snowing lightly last Thursday afternoon as the performance of “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège discret de la nature sauvage” (“The Dancing Beasts or the Discrete Spell of…Continue Reading →
During a snowstorm in January 1885, Wilson ”Snowflake” Bentley, a Vermont farmer turned scientist, is said to have become the first person to photograph a single snow crystal—more commonly known…Continue Reading →
Barbara Morgan’s photographs of American modern dancers in the 1930s and ‘40s are among the most striking and influential ever made. But she didn’t set out to be a photographer.…Continue Reading →