Two stage productions connect audiences to some of the more important issues teens go through as they come of age: embracing their identity and finding the voice to express themselves.
Wicked plays at the Boston Opera House through September 15th.
Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good turns the assumptions we've grown up with in The Wizard of Oz upside down and compells audiences to consider how we percieve people who are different from us.
How We Got On by Company One plays at the Boston Center for the Arts through this Saturday, August 17th.
In 1988, Hank, Julian and Luann have each finally found the beats and dubs that make the suburbs bearable, but they need each other more than they know. Rap battles and poetry in parking lots lead to dreams of something more, as a DJ takes us to the flipside, loops us into the remix, and breaks it down. Spoken word poet and hip-hop playwright Idris Goodwin MC’s a theatrical coming-of-age mix tape about how we become the people we’re meant to be, flowing and rhyming our way to adulthood. Understand hip-hop from its origins and see what it was before it became another commercial vehicle for selling music.
To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missle Crisis , is on view at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum through December 1st.
For two weeks in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of thermonuclear war and the end of civilization as we know it. As the President and the leader of the Soviet Socialist Republic exchanged heated dialogue about a nuclear launch site in Cuba, over 13 days, the fate of the world hung in the balance. Now look back at the crisis from the 50-year mark, drawn mainly from U.S. sources including JFK's recordings of secret White House meetings. Excerpts from the 43 hours of tape relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis are presented in the gallery and form the centerpiece of this exhibit.
This week on Open Studio : Take one final visit to the Berkshires with a visit to The Mount, the estate of American author Edith Wharton, and preview mid-career retrospective of Tony Feher’s work at the deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass. Also, see how photographer Petronella Ytsma's work illuminates the multi-generational effects of Agent Orange; and how the iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem continues its legacy of advancing emerging voices across cultures and honors the contributions of African American artists through the Apollo Theater Foundation.
