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The director’s cut
The young director Allegra Libonati stages a new production of the brothers Grimm fairytale “Hansel and Gretel” at the A.R.T. Institute. The show runs through Jan. 6.
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From ‘Emma’ to ‘Charlie Brown’
Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) welcomes Harvard undergraduates of all ages and majors to participate in its summer repertory company. The 30 Harvard students participating in the 2012 HRST program and have been collaborating on three plays since mid-May.
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Strong showing for musicals with A.R.T. ties
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Once” — two shows with pre-Broadway origins at the American Repertory Theater — had a boffo night at Sunday’s Tony Awards, taking home the prizes for best musical revival and best musical, respectively.
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A theatrical innovator
Diane Paulus explained her approach to theater, one that involves the active engagement of the audience.
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Guthrie in the outdoors
Harvard will host a live outdoor simulcast of the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” on May 17. Tickets are available May 3.
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On the Cutting Edge of History – Innovation at Harvard
Jeremy Geidt, lecturer on dramatic arts and senior actor at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), recounts a few memorable moments in Harvard’s history.
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Theater Reimagined – Innovation at Harvard
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is seeking new ways to redefine and reimagine theater for the Harvard community and beyond.
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Former A.R.T. resident director dies
David Wheeler, longtime resident director and later associate artist of the American Repertory Theater, died Jan. 4.
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The Power of Theater
Diane Paulus Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater Professor of the Practice of Theater, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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‘Nixon in China’ and at Harvard
Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion Nov. 15 with the alumni behind the groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China” as part of Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration.
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Reimagining ‘Summertime’
Students from the Boston Collegiate Charter School reinterpreted the classic song “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” as part of a two-day workshop conducted by the A.R.T./MXAT Institute.
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Theater’s new frontiers
Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.
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The timelessness of war
In a collaboration with the American Repertory Theater and the Theater of War, members of the military and civilians attended a reading of the ancient Greek drama “Ajax and Philoctetes” and took part in a discussion about the psychological impact of war.
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A call to action, amid acting
A.R.T.’s “Prometheus Bound” ties the ancient Greek play to modern human rights.
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Don’t stop the music
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz explored the American musical in the 21st century during a discussion at Oberon.
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The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”
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An explosion of creativity
The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”
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‘Shakespeare Exploded’
A.R.T. leads effort to keep Shakespeare’s plays relevant for modern times, with its primary mission what his likely was: to lure audiences into the theater.
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“Street Scene” in the Yard
“Street Scene” is performed in Harvard Yard by a group of A.R.T. students.
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‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
Harvard’s new American Repertory Theater director Diane Paulus ’88 takes a classic Shakespeare comedy for a spin on the disco floor with “The Donkey Show.”
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Chairs, tables, performances come to the Yard
To enhance the Harvard community’s campus experience, the University will install tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad and host open-air performances.
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Calla Videt explores ‘the space between’
During a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, film director Mike Nichols told students that professional training begins in youth when a person does what he or she loves 10,000 times before even thinking about the arc of a career.
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PAULUS NOMINATIONS, RECOGNITIONS
American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus’ production of “Hair” has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Director), in addition to several Drama League Awards.
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Paulus reaches beyond boards
Clad in black and white, her brown hair loose about her shoulders, her green eyes intense, Diane Paulus sits in her office and smiles. Against the window rests a stolen treasure from her days as a Harvard freshman, a poster of the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.”
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Playwrights find a venue
Chris Gummerson ’12 was driving past the headquarters of a scrapple factory in a small town when an idea for a musical came to her. What if the town’s livelihood depended on the factory, and what if a USDA official made a surprise visit that culminated in a product-recall panic, and what if the meat-eating…
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Looking for Barbies
In connection with the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere production of Christine Evans’ play “Trojan Barbie,” The Weekly Dig is sponsoring a Barbie Doll competition and exhibition at the Space 242 Gallery in the South End, Boston.
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Harvard goes to Broadway
Ten minutes after pulling out of Cambridge on a bus bound for New York City, Davone Tines ’09 turned to his classmate Jordan Reddout ’10 and said, “I really like the prospect of this group of people going to Broadway to watch a musical.”
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Dracula, Romanian revolution onstage at A.R.T.
Thirteen men and women stand in a semicircle. Several of them are wearing hammer and sickle-shaped headdresses. Some are carrying wrenches; others, flowers. They are all singing the refrain “Drac-u-laaa.” And in the center of it all, there is a man, slowly turning, pretending to draw a cape to the tip of his nose.
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‘Grace in the Dark’
In her one-woman shows, Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated writer and actress Anna Deavere Smith spins interviews into a theatrical performance. Weaving the words she has collected into an evocative tapestry, she brings to life characters ranging from a photographer in Iraq to a Harvard theologian to a Kentucky Derby jockey to a Rwanda genocide survivor.
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