Puppet Showplace Theater — Productions That Aren’t Just Kids’ Stuff
For the last 40 years in Brookline, Puppet Showplace Theater has been giving puppeteers a theatrical home in New England. Started by Mary Churchill in 1974 as a home for her own puppetry company, the organization presents performances by a new artist nearly every week, with over 300 shows per year. While puppets have often […]
Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2014
With the new semester, BU has resumed its campaign against alcohol abuse, bolstering police patrols of known party neighborhoods, citing students for public intoxication, dispersing loud parties—and crucially, publicizing statistics on booze-control efforts by University, Boston, and Brookline police. The graphic above shows last weekend’s enforcement statistics. See statistics from prior weekends below.
Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel
In the Late Bronze Age, the walls of the citadel at Kaymakçı rose 10 feet above the jagged bedrock surrounding it. Behind the fortification was a community of homes, workshops, roads, plazas, and great halls. The neighboring residences and cemeteries surrounding the citadel sprawled across 60 acres—larger than the site of Troy, the ancient city […]
For A Good Time, Try Hanging With ‘Bad Jews’ — At SpeakEasy Stage
BOSTON — As play titles go, they don’t come more loaded than “Bad Jews.” Fear not, though. “Bad Jews” is not an attack on anyone; it’s more a Rorschach test that calls out not to anti-Semites but to members of the Jewish community themselves. To me, for example, a bad Jew is someone outside of […]
‘A Disappearing Number’: A Mathematical Path To The Hereafter?
You could count the prizes “A Disappearing Number” won in England in 2007: Evening Standard Award for Best Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, Critics’ Circle Theatre award for Best New Play. Or you could just sit back and let the arithmetic wash over you (and the rest of Central Square Theater) as […]