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April 2008

April's planetary themes are fire and earth and a touch of water, which basically amounts to the conditions needed for pottery.
Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI | April 01, 2008

Permanent

As Massachusetts’s puritanical Blue Laws started to fade in the late 1990s, the kids on Comm Ave rejoiced.
Body modification as art at the Peabody Essex Museum
By SALLY CRAGIN | February 20, 2008

Thirteen ways of looking at ink

Reflections on a lifetime of personal connections with tattoos
By SALLY CRAGIN | February 20, 2008

Tritown flashback

Except for its art museum, Fitchburg is generally off the Phoenix radar.
The return of Hollis the Mountain Man
By CLIF GARBODEN | January 09, 2008

Beane town

The dish runs away with the show, not just the spoon, in Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony-nominated 2006 The Little Dog Laughed .
Speakeasy walks The Little Dog Laughed
By SALLY CRAGIN | January 08, 2008

October 2007

It's October again, and the theme is harvest, harvest, harvest thanks to Venus and Saturn in Virgo.
Monthly forecast
By SALLY CRAGIN | October 02, 2007

September 2007

Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI | September 06, 2007

Police force

Along came the Police, packing cold, steely hits with flashes of heat.
Many little things they did were magic
By SALLY CRAGIN | July 25, 2007

For a playwright and filmmaker known for pinpointing every possible human folly, Neil LaBute is candid about his reputation as a master mocksmith of bad behavior.
SpeakEasy embraces Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig
By SALLY CRAGIN | March 06, 2007

Still queen

Rare is the biographical theater piece that seems to create a new genre of theater.
Dinah Washington evoked at MRT
By SALLY CRAGIN | February 20, 2007

February 2007

Monthly forecast
By SYMBOLINE DAI | January 31, 2007

Nun sense

Theatergoers who attended American Repertory Theatre in the 1980s saw an exquisitely versatile actor, Cherry Jones.
Cherry Jones has no doubt about Doubt
By SALLY CRAGIN | January 23, 2007

Women’s war

Most of the world has an outside-in perspective on Iraq, but the Lyric Stage Company is presenting an insider’s view in Iraqi-American writer/performer Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire .
9 Parts of Desire probes the Iraqi female psyche
By SALLY CRAGIN | October 10, 2006

High philately

“When I started working on this play, a lot of people came out of the woodwork and said, ‘I used to collect stamps,’ ” explains writer Theresa Rebeck over the phone from Los Angeles.
Mauritius enters the weird world of stamps
By SALLY CRAGIN | September 27, 2006

On the record

The days when Boston was the chief tryout town for Broadway-bound musicals are long past.
High Fidelity to hit Boston before Broadway
By SALLY CRAGIN | September 19, 2006

Wilson’s legacy

He is missed. And he is mourned. Although playwright August Wilson, who passed away last October, will no longer be in his customary spot in the Huntington Theatre Company rehearsal hall, his presence pervades the preparation of Radio Golf .
The Huntington tunes in Radio Golf
By SALLY CRAGIN | August 29, 2006

Free fisticuffs

After last year’s Hamlet , Commonwealth Shakespeare Company artistic director Steven Maler decided he wanted a play “with life and character and vitality to it — an upbeat type of spirit” for this year’s offering of free Shakespeare on Boston Common.
Shrew to be tamed on Boston Common
By SALLY CRAGIN | July 11, 2006

Bard or beard?

This season the Publick Theatre will be doing Shakespeare in the park with a twist.
Shakespeare steps on the Publick stage
By SALLY CRAGIN | June 20, 2006

Drama loading

No sooner has the final runner staggered past the Prudential than it’s time to gear up for another long-distance event: the Boston Theater Marathon, which takes place this Sunday, May 21.
Preparing for the Boston Theater Marathon
By SALLY CRAGIN | May 16, 2006

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