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War Horse Is an Unbridled Success


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By Jared Bowen
Elaborate puppetry gives life to a story about the brutaity of war and one majestic animal’s endurance.
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Review: Sequence 8


By Jared Bowen
Hear Jared's reviews of performance, music, film and art around Boston on 89.7 WGBH's Morning Edition, and take notes on what you shouldn't miss this weekend.
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Theater Review: On Stage Now in Boston


By Jared Bowen
Today on 89.7 WGBH's Morning Edition, Jared reviews two more performances happening this weekend on Boston stages. Plus, watch an interview with screenwriter Terrence McNally, writer of Ragtime.
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New Shows on Stage


By Jared Bowen
Hear Jared and Morning Edition host Bob Seay talk about some of the new theater performances coming out this season.
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Barrington Stage Company: Musical Theater Incubator



By Kris Wilton
“It’s an opportunity to get to know composers’ work early in their careers and really to help them,” says Julianne Boyd, BSC’s founder and artistic director. “Bill Finn is a marvelous mentor. He tells these young writers they can do it.”
Theater

Summer Arts Weekend: It's All About Balance with Flooky and The Beans



By Stacy Buchanan
Flooky the Robot and Bobo, Emma, Pepi, and Jojo Bean take to the stage providing children with an engaging live show that incorporates a combination of learning intelligences including music, vocabulary, and math.
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Summer Arts Weekend: Bonaparte Dazzles and it's MAGIC!



By Stacy Buchanan
Bonaparte has a knack for captivating audiences with his award-winning magic blended with comedy, audience participation, origami, and balloon sculpture.
Theater

Review: Jack Ferver's Two Alike at the ICA



By Kris Wilton
A dark exploration of growing up gay, Two Alike is a collaboration between Jack Ferver and the sculptor Mark Swanson, who designed a mirror-backed set reminiscent of the audition stage in A Chorus Line.
Theater

A Conversation on Black Theater in Boston



By Bridgit Brown
Before the Theater Communications Group conference, Akiba Abaka, Producing Director of Up You Mighty Race Company and Barbara Lewis, Director of The William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture, spoke to us about the their involvement in the conference and their expectations.
Theater

More Voices from the TCG Conference



By WGBHArts
Jared Bowen caught up with a few of the attendees of the Theater Communications Group conference this week. It's the first time the conference has ever been held in Boston, signalling the significance of the city as a destination for the performance arts.
Caught in the Act

'Olympics' of American Theater Come to Boston


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By Jared Bowen
The national conference of the Theater Communications Group brings together more than a thousand theater professionals — and this year they came to Boston. 
Theater

The Hotel Nepenthe is Nothing Short of Bewitching



By Mary Tinti
Written by John Kuntz, “The Hotel Nepenthe” is about as trippy, witty, snappy, funny, and creepy a production as you could hope to find. At its core, the play tells the story of several different characters that orbit the Hotel Nepenthe.
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The Amen Corner Comes to Life for One Day



By Bridgit Brown
1 Voice, 1 Play, 1 Day, is an awareness campaign of Project 1 Voice, a national performing arts service organization. Their goal is to use one day and one voice to cultivate an audience for black playwrights and to capture the African American experience in theatre.
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Anthony Rapp Speaks of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent


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By Jared Bowen
Anthony Rapp, star from the Broadway hit Rent, brings a one-man show to Boston this week about his struggle to balance family and career while his mother battled cancer. His performance continues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
Theater

The Language of Love Person



By Mary Tinti
A language, whether signed, spoken, written, or sung, is a critical, complex communicative tool and that certainty is front and center in Love Person.
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The MBTA Arrives ... on Stage


WGBH NEWS FOCUS: THE MBTA
By Michelle Liu
Even MBTA officials are liking "T: An MBTA Musical," where Charlie (of the Card) sings and the different lines come to life.
Caught in the Act

Broadway Finally Ready for "Porgy and Bess"


By Jared Bowen
The A.R.T.'s artistic director adhered to her vision to adapt "Porgy and Bess" for a twenty-first century stage, despite thunderous criticism. Last night, “The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess” won Tonys for best musical revival and best actress.
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Review: Private Lives at the Huntington


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By Jared Bowen
Theater director and Noel Coward expert Maria Aitken gives us a brilliant Boston staging of the playwright's 1930 comedy, Private Lives.
Caught in the Act

There's Nothing Quite Like a Classic


By Jared Bowen
Hear about a new staging of a Noel Coward classic and learn about the reunion of three masterpiece paintings that will delight museum visitors in Boston this summer.
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Fela! brings Afrobeat to life



By Bridgit Brown
Fela!, the musical, takes place at the tipping point in Fela’s career, a time when he was trying to decide whether to leave his homeland of Nigeria and come to America.
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August Wilson's power play completes his century cycle at the Huntington Theatre



By Bridgit Brown
Ma Rainey’s story illuminates a very special person at a time when we rarely got to see the real story behind the music.
Theater

Wild Swans: A Memoir Brought To The Stage


By Jared Bowen
Jung Chang's bestselling memior, Wild Swans, about her family’s survival during much of 20th century China’s upheaval, is finally adapted for performance.
CNE Journal

Three Pianos: Regular Guys and Schubert


By Brian McCreath
Three friends channel the spirit of the Schubertiade at American Repertory Theater, partying with the piece of music you'd least expect.
Theater

The Brother/Sister Trilogy: Peering Into The Soul of Humanity And History



By Alicia Anstead
Alicia Anstead reflects on the Company One production of The Brother/Sister Trilogy playing at the Boston Center for the Arts through December 3rd.
Theater

New Opera At Boston Conservatory



By Arthur Smith
The enterprising Guerilla Opera, a chamber company associated with Boston Conservatory and dedicated to new works in an intimate setting, just finished the world premiere run of Wet, Loose, Perforated.
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Five Questions For Sean Panikkar



By Brian McCreath
WGBHArts contributor Brian McCreath sat down with tenor Sean Panikkar between reheasals for the Opera Boston production of Beatrice and Benedict.
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"Porgy and Bess" at A.R.T.: Transformed and Illuminating



By Kim McLarin
Kim McLarin takes in the new production of Porgy and Bess” at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater with the question “Why now?” and finds a surprising answer in the company’s new version of the 75-year-old opera.
Greater Boston

A.R.T. Reimagines Porgy And Bess


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By Jared Bowen
Porgy and Bess is considered the American opera and one of the most singular pieces of theater ever produced in this country. The piece has undergone a transformation of sorts by American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus, who was handpicked by the Gershwin estate to refashion the opera into a musical.
Film

For Colored Girls



By Kim McLarin
WGBHArts contributor Kim McLarin's take on the Tyler Perry film adaptation of "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf..."
Dance

A Valuable Tradition, Ballet Endures



By Alicia Anstead
Back in October, New Republic dance critic Jennifer Homans suggested that ballet was dead. She couldn’t have known that she would set off a fire storm of response. Alicia Anstead examines the resonance of The Nutcracker. 
Theater

Bruce George: A Poet For the Stage



By Bridgit Brown
Bruce George is a legend even though he would rather be recognized as a poet. But he is the reason why the art of performance poetry catapulted to stardom in this decade, and continues to thrive despite the rapidly changing interests of the American television viewership.
Mark Your Calendar

Candide at the Huntington: Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman takes on a flawed classic.



By Arthur Smith
Leonard Bernstein's problematic masterpiece bows at the Huntington.
Theater

Five Questions For F. Murray Abraham


By Kara Miller
Abraham talks to Kara Miller about about listening to Stravinsky, eating lobster in Boston, and playing Shylock in ArtsEmerson's The Merchant of Venice. 

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