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Life of Pi Production Designer at COM Tonight
Oscar-nominated David Gropman screens film, talks shop (subtitle) Award-winning production designer David Gropman comes to the College of Communication tonight to screen Life of Pi. Photo courtesy of David Gropman (Caption) When Yann Martel’s fantasy novel Life of Pi was published in 2001, many said it could never be turned into a... More
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... More
‘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... More
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... More
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... More