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Company One owns The Brother/Sister Plays

Louisiana purchase
Symbolism blows over swampland in The Brother/Sister Plays , a hypnotic trilogy making its area debut courtesy of Company One (at the BCA Plaza through December 3).
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 16, 2011

ASP's Twelfth Night enters laughing

Clown show
The challenge in any production of Twelfth Night isn't the love triangle.
By STEVE VINEBERG | October 12, 2011

Zeitgeist skips through Tony Kushner's short plays

Serious fun
The fall season has begun with a lot of starry events.
By ED SIEGEL | October 05, 2011

Their cheating hearts

Literary Lites
When Kristina Newman-Scott took over as director of programs for the Boston Center for the Arts in January, she was surprised at its lack of literary offerings.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 21, 2011

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Autumn blossoms: Our 10 most anticipated art shows this fall

This season, the galleries are filled with light shows, monster rock and roll, and naked ladies
This fall is a season of celebrations and new beginnings as the Museum of Fine Arts opens its new contemporary art wing, the Institute of Contemporary Art turns 75, the Addison Gallery reopens after fixing its roof, and Brandeis's Rose Art Museum reopens after a mini renovation and settling a lawsuit by backing off from its threat to close for good.
By GREG COOK | September 14, 2011

''Not About Paint'' and ''Close Distance''

Close and far
"Not About Paint" at Steven Zevitas Gallery (450 Harrison Ave, through August 20) is a bright, buoyant survey of New York abstraction today.
By GREG COOK | August 18, 2011

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Company One takes on Jason Grote's whirling 1001

American Nights
Grote uses the same framing device as the original One Thousand and One Nights , which begins with Shahriyar (Nael Nacer) discovering his wife's infidelity and deciding that the only way to prevent his future wives from cheating is to marry virgins, deflower them, and execute them the next morning.
By MADDY MYERS | July 26, 2011

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Photos: President Obama speaks at the Cyclorama

Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts | May 18, 2011
Obama speaks at the Cyclorama inside Boston Center for The Arts on May 18, 2011. He was proceeded by speakers from The New England Steering Committee, Governor Deval Patrick, current Celtics player Ray Allen and former Celtics player Bill Russell.
By KELSEY MARIE BELL | May 23, 2011

Brian Crabtree's unified fragments

Stanzas
The 10 dance fragments looked like a close-knit family with a couple of fractious siblings.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 25, 2011

Review: Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis

Boston Lyric Opera pulls out the stops
The Boston Lyric Opera, with Boston Classical Orchestra music director Steven Lipsitt and a company of singers and designers largely new to Boston, has given us a memorable production of the opera that composer Viktor Ullmann and poet Petr Kien created in 1943 at the Terezín concentration camp, The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits .
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | February 03, 2011

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Review: Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and The Aliens

Local troupes take a road trip to Shirley, VT
Over the river and through the woods from Grover's Corners lies Shirley, VT, Green Mountain stand-in for college-centric Amherst, MA, where playwright Annie Baker grew up.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 27, 2010

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Review: Wicked; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Real Inspector Hound

Spell casters
"It's a bit much," acknowledges the Wizard of Oz, emerging from under the neon-blue-eyed Lion King mask behind which he does his heavily amplified business in the Broadway blockbuster Wicked .
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 07, 2010

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Play by play: July 9, 2010

Theater listings, week of July 9, 2010
Opening this week: Burning The Barn, The Color Of Desire, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant, Fully Committed, and more
By MADDY MYERS | July 06, 2010

Freaks, Geeks, and Faux Bono

Boston-area subcultures keep the Bay State comfortably kooky this summer
As Bay Staters, we recognize that our European ancestors sure knew how to roll: scarlet letters, sticks up asses, if-she-drowns-she's-not-a-witch-if-she-floats-she's-a-witch-so-let's-kill-her legal applications.
By ALEXIS HAUK | June 20, 2010