Actors' Shakespeare Project RICHARD III In Harvard Square Only - Only Five More Performances
Critic's Agree ASP's Richard III is "riveting," "powerful," and "delicious good fun".
Critic's Agree ASP's Richard III is "riveting," "powerful," and "delicious good fun".
Dance Now Boston/NYC, David Parker’s vision, now in its 4th season, to foster a choreographic bridge between Boston and New York, returns to The Dance Complex, June 16-18, 2017 for a showcase of performance and celebration. Friday will feature Dance Now commissions by four Boston choreographers: Jimena Bermejo, Carey McKinley, McKersin Previlus, and Subject:Matter with Ian Berg and Sunday will offer works by New York's LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis, and Donnell Oakley). Saturday night presents Snap•Crackle•BANG!, a free reception/performances to celebrate The Bang Group, featuring all groups and honoring PFLAG trustee and social activist Stanley N. Griffith. For more information, registration, and tickets, please visit thebanggroup.com.
Dance Now Boston/NYC, David Parker’s vision, now in its 4th season, to foster a choreographic bridge between Boston and New York, returns to The Dance Complex, June 16-18, 2017 for a showcase of performance and celebration. Friday, June 16 at 8 pm will feature Dance Now commissions by four Boston choreographers: Jimena Bermejo, Carey McKinley, McKersin Previlus, and Subject:Matter with Ian Berg, and Sunday June 18 at 7 pm will offer works by New York's LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis and Donnell Oakley). Saturday night presents Snap•Crackle•BANG!, a free reception/performances to celebrate The Bang Group, featuring all groups and honoring PFLAG trustee and social activist Stanley N. Griffith.
Dance and multimedia imagery are woven together to tell powerful, true-life stories of social injustice. Seventy-five young dance artists of CYDP Dance Company, a non-profit empowering diverse individual to pursue dance as a career, remind us all to believe in our limitless ability and the power of the human spirit.
Live Announcement from the front steps of The Dance Complex...celebrating 25 years and the announcement of a year-long celebration to begin in January 2017.
Now in its fourth season, Shakespeare & Leadership is a performance series created by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) and co-sponsored by BabsonARTS. the event features prominent business leaders and CEOs in a staged reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays followed by a panel discussion of leadership issues raised within the text. This year they will take on Shakespeare’s OTHELLO. “’Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus, " Jealousy rules the motives of nearly every character in Othello, and creates a world where what people are and what they seem to be become indistinguishable. Directed by CSC’s Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler and featuring celebrated actor Faran Tahir as Othello, confirmed participants include Kerry Healey, President, Babson College; Priscilla Douglas, PHDouglas & Associates; Cheryl Kiser head of Lewis institute at Babson College; Josh Kraft, President Boys and Girls Club’s of Boston and Rick Musiol, Regional Director of Public Affairs at Citizens Bank. The event will take place Wednesday, March 9 (7pm) at Carling-Sorenson Theatre at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. The event is free with reservations required. For more information visit, commshakes.org or 617 426-0863. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company is dedicated to bringing the works of William Shakespeare in vital and contemporary productions to the people of Boston and to exploring Shakespeare’s plays with local youth in innovative and creative ways. Best known for its annual free performances on Boston Common, CSC also presents several free play-reading events during the year—Theatre in the Rough, Shakespeare & Law, and Shakespeare & Leadership. The Company fulfills its educational mission with training programs for both high school students and pre-professional actors through its Summer Academy. Throughout the year, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company partners with area high schools and Boys & Girls Clubs to provide in and after-school theatre activities to inner-city youth. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company is the Theatre in Residence at Babson College. For more information visit, commshakes.org. BabsonARTS Creativity and innovation have long been hallmarks of Babson College’s focus on entrepreneurship—and what better way to enrich the Babson experience than with an array of challenging and engaging arts events? BabsonARTS presents performances, exhibitions, films, and conversations designed to be entertaining and to shine a spotlight on global issues, social and environmental concerns, the creative process, and the arts as a business. The generosity of Richard W. ’68 and Sandra L. Sorenson makes our programming possible. For more information visit babsonarts.org or call (781) 239-5622.
Boston Theater Company celebrates its second birthday with From Broadway to Boston, a benefit concert featuring special guest Dawn Cantwell, seen in Sting's Broadway musical The Last Ship. It's a family affair, too, as her brother Ryan Cantwell (first national tour of Pippin) sits in as the event's musical director. They'll be joined by Rich DiMare, the Top 30 countdown producer on Boston's hit radio station Kiss 108 FM. The festivities also include the talents of a slew of Boston-based performers Erika Peterson, Marge Dunn , Liana Asim, Lenni Kmiec, Brittany Rolfs, Nile Hawver, Shonna Cirone, Emily Hecht, and PauMarkowiczitz whose stars are on the rise. BTC is dedicated to preserving the messages of classical scripts while making them accessible to modern theatergoing audiences. Raise a toast to their continuing efforts at this benefit bash, directed by Joey Frangieh and hosted by OBERON in Cambridge.
World-renowned photographer Michael Childers’ Author, Author exhibit is a retrospective featuring intimate portraits selected from a series of more than 100 writers, screenwriters, playwrights and poets photographed by Childers from the 1960s through today.