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Elevator Repair Service Reads “Gatsby” Part 2

Thumbnail image for Elevator Repair Service Reads “Gatsby” Part 2 by Bryce Lambert January 27, 2010

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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Elevator Repair Service Reads “Gatsby” Part 1

Thumbnail image for Elevator Repair Service Reads “Gatsby” Part 1 by Bryce Lambert January 14, 2010

Elevator Repair Service‘s Gatz (@ the American Rep through Feb. 7) at six hours (not counting the breaks and intermissions) is marathon theater. Even if you do all ten hours of the Boston Theater Marathon, this is something entirely different. It takes the patience of an ardent reader, or at least someone set on getting [...]

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Six Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk

Thumbnail image for Six Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk by Bryce Lambert September 26, 2009

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate and critically acclaimed novelist, gave the first of a series of six lectures this past Tuesday to a densely packed crowd at Harvard’s Sanders Theater. The Norton lectures were first endowed in 1925 as a yearly lectureship pertaining to poetry, in the broadest sense of the word. Past lectures have been [...]