by Kendra Thurlow | Apr 24, 2008 | Stage
The 1957 Broadway debut and the 1961 version of West Side Story featured explosive, athletic ballet, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, who had the initial idea for the musical. Drawing inspiration from Robbins, break dancing, crumping and capoeira, choreographer Maura...
by Sarah Feldberg | May 1, 2008 | Stage
Think of shadow puppets, and diaspora and political persecution are not necessarily the first things that come to mind. However, Philadelphia-based artist Erik Ruin has used a fairly unsophisticated medium to explore darker topics. His show, Flight, utilizes intricate...
by Sarah Feldberg | May 8, 2008 | Stage
The myth of Medea has been a profound source of inspiration for 20th- and 21st-century artists with drastically different aesthetics: everyone from Leonard Baskin to Margaret Atwood has been inspired by the tale of the mother who murdered her children to avenge her...
by Sarah Gibbons | May 14, 2008 | Stage
Firmly established as a seminal work of fiction, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote not only deals with philosophical themes like identity and deception, but also with their comedic foils, imitation and fantasy. Cervantes instills in his character qualities that...
by James Heflin | May 15, 2008 | Stage
This fall, the Massachusetts Review will publish a play by UMass-Amherst professor Julian Olf. This week, as a result, Olf’s play will premier at UMass. It’s got quite a handle (parentheses included), (People Almost Always Smell Good in the Art Museum),...
