Theater
Giselle: Beautiful Dance of Death
Boston Ballet’s production of Giselle, one of the most famous ballets every composed, contains more than enough emotion and virtuosity
Female and Minority Issues Find Stage Outlet
A very pregnant black woman struts angrily across a spartan stage, her pink terry-cloth bathrobe barely large enough to fit
When Opera Met Reality: Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata
Everyone has artistic obsessions. For most college kids in the age of the Internet, the endless search for the perfect
Industrial Offers Fierce, Furious 'Fefu'
Industrial Theatre has mounted another production in the quirky spirit which has marked its Cambridge seasons since the company’s 1995
'Transient Days' Fade Quickly
Some people know why they got into Harvard. There’s a kid upstairs who summers at the Sorbonne sketching tourists and
Carey Can Reclaim Diva-dom
For someone whose career has supposedly sunk to the bottom of the pop culture septic tank, Mariah Carey isn’t doing
Brecht’s ‘Ba’al’ Lights Up the Loeb Ex
Bertolt Brecht’s Ba’al is a play about the power of sex, amorality and decadence that culminates in self-destruction. Written in
Everybody's Got The Right
The first column I published in this space was a retrospective of a summer’s theatrical experiences. With 2001 now in
Can You Spell Me, Darryl Loomis
Can You Spell Me, Darryl Loomis?, the student-written comedy which played Jan. 4 and 5 at Radcliffe’s Agassiz Theater, operates
Yeomen of the Guard
Doubtless, hundreds of talents have ex- celled before as Gilbert and Sullivan’s tragic jester, Jack Point, but Oussama Zahr ’04
Merrily We Roll Along
Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along is a musical without a happy ending. Well, let’s try that again. On its
Dido and Aeneas
When most Americans think of opera, they conjure up a stereotype drawn from the characterization of sitcoms and a Bugs
The Who's Classic Rock Musical Owns the Ex Stage
Watching the harvard-radcliffe dramatic Club’s production of The Who’s Tommy feels much like standing front and center at a high-energy
'Fire' Flickers but Fails to Ignite
“And so the general of hot desire / Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.” Thus Love’s Fire begins, with
Mamet Swindle Fails to Entice in the Ex
When Shakespeare goes awry, the audience can find redemption in the language. Even bad Shakespeare retains value due to the
