By James Foritano Cambridge, MA - In this reviewer’s opinion, George Bernard Shaw would have heartily approved the New York City-based Bedlam Theater’s rip-roaring presentation of “Saint Joan” at Central Square Theater. In a largely bare venue, a ‘mere’ four actors performing the usual 24 roles of Shaw’s play, proclaim, declaim, browbeat, instruct, seduce and confront the reigning powers of 15th century Europe as well as their would-be challengers. An ever-ready farm girl/general, Joan, savvy and intuition to the fore, God and St. Catherine and St. Margaret, et al, at her back, gains first a hearing with the powers-that-be in France, then carte-blanche with their quarter-masters who armor and horse her and deck her out with the blazons and insignia of the emerging nation-state of France. Rough soldiers tiptoe around this former farmer’s daughter in the barracks, their usual … [Read more...] about Bedlam’s Saint Joan at Central Square Theater
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project presents Measure for Measure
By Sarah Kinkade The irony is not lost as the audience settles into what was once the Middlesex County Courthouse. Every detail, from the image of Lady Justice on the floor to the hanging American flags, paints the picture of the American justice system. The audience is seated on both sides of the room, giving them the position of jurors about to review the events of a crime. This is appropriate, seeing how they are about to see Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, a play involving corruption, arrests, power, hypocrisy and the importance of justice versus mercy. The play was carefully chosen for a list inspired by the movement #FergusonSyllabus, made popular by Twitter, which aims to use theater to bring awareness to what is going on in the world, particularly concerning American politics in relation to the events of Ferguson, and the conversations needed to have in order to make a … [Read more...] about Actors’ Shakespeare Project presents Measure for Measure
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David B. Boyce, Cast as One of the Four Figures in George Segal’s Gay Liberation Monument, dies at 65
By Lasse Antonsen New Bedford, MA - David B. Boyce, who was a New York art world insider in the 1970s, died December 15 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was 65. Born in 1949 in Washington DC, Mr. Boyce began to visit New York City while an undergraduate student a UMASS Amherst. In 1970 he eventually dropped out of college and moved to Manhattan. At different times, depending on projects, Mr. Boyce worked for the Sidney Janis Gallery and Pace Gallery, and eventually as assistant director of the Holly Solomon Gallery, guiding Holly Solomon from 1975-77 in establishing a roster of artists. Among the artists represented in the new gallery was Robert Mapplethorpe. For a short time Mr. Boyce and Mr. Mapplethorpe were lovers. Mr. Boyce moved in a circle of artists that included John Cage and Marcel Duchamp’s widow, Teeny Duchamp. Mr. Boyce worked as Jasper John’s studio assistant for … [Read more...] about David B. Boyce, Cast as One of the Four Figures in George Segal’s Gay Liberation Monument, dies at 65
O.P.C. at American Repertory Theater
By James Foritano Cambridge, MA - Written by Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monologues”) and directed by Pesha Rudnick, the new production at the American Repertory Theater, “O.P.C.” — or Obsessive Political Correctness — is a rich blend of mordant comedy, high drama, pathos and not a few revelations. Played by Kate Mulligan, Smith Weill, an ardent mainstream liberal, aspires just as ardently, arguably more ardently, than she espouses her principles, to gain a seat in the United States Congress. Her daughter, Romi, played by Olivia Thirlby, espouses the principles of liberal community that her mom, Smith, and dad Bruce, played by Michael T. Weiss, have bred into her by sterling and undeviating parental example. Trouble is, Romi, named for the former imperial capital where she was conceived, embraces her liberalism with a deep, dyed-in-the-wool militancy that baffles and even frightens … [Read more...] about O.P.C. at American Repertory Theater
Multiplicity at Fountain Street Fine Art
By Brian Goslow Framingham, MA - The first thing you notice about “Multiplicity” is that from the moment you enter the gallery, each of the works is calling for your attention — and that each of them could do so for an extended period of time. Perhaps the best place to start is with “Armature,” a living-breathing object composed of three steel hoops, chicken wire, tracing paper and 10 gallons of wheat paste where you can crawl inside at its ends or lie on your back and gaze up underneath that hangs serpent-like in the middle of the gallery from three of its historic graffiti-marked pillars, the work of curators Carrie Childs-Antonini and Denise Driscoll with Sara Fine-Wilson. “It was being birthed as the show was going up,” Driscoll said. “We finished the day before the opening.” The idea for the 19-artist show started at a gallery members’ meeting last spring; the intention was … [Read more...] about Multiplicity at Fountain Street Fine Art