A.R.T.

Music

Three Pianos and a Little Schubert at the A.R.T.

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The A.R.T. throws a killer Schubertiade.

Music

On Porgy and Bess

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On the A.R.T.’s “Porgy and Bess” and adaptation.

Theater

The Trojan Hurt Locker: The A.R.T.’s “Ajax”

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Everything about the ART’s production of Sophocles’ Ajax (through March 14th at the Loeb) screams contemporary relevance. David Zinn has the cast dressed in desert fatigues and has installed a kind of abandoned mess hall on the Loeb stage. Athena (Kaaron Briscoe) comes dressed in a (politician’s) business suit and speaks through the cafeteria’s distortive [...]

Theater

A Brief History of Buckminster Fuller

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I can’t imagine a play that could better fit the M.O. of an “academic theater” (if you were to take that epaulet literally) than D.W. Jacobs’ R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe. The ART’s current show takes the form of a meandering while didactic lecture, delivered by the inimitable Thomas Derrah. [...]

Theater

♩Da, Da, Da♩ A.R.T.’s “The Blue Flower”

ART The Blue Flower December 15, 2010

With characters based on German Expressionists Max Beckmann and Franz Marc, Marie Curie, and Dada artist Hannah Höch The Blue Flower, at the American Repertory Theater through January 8th, is certainly not a musical that strikes up an immediate familiarity with most audiences, like I imagine Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark might. But this somewhat [...]

Theater

Breaking the Curse: The A.R.T.’s “Johnny Baseball”

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Theater……and sports? Bryce Lambert reviews the ART’s “Johnny Baseball.”

Books

Elevator Repair Service Reads “Gatsby” Part 2

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A late follow-up to my earlier post on the play. Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz continues at the ART through February 7th (tickets $20-75 per part), though it’s clearly not as successful as Sleep No More, which is impossible to get tickets to any more unless (I hear) you make a nice little membership donation, or [...]

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