by Kendra Thurlow | Jun 18, 2008 | Stage
Following the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959, the Drepung Loseling Monastery, in the hills on the northern outskirts of Lhasa, was closed, along with nearly all of Tibet's 6,500 monasteries. Many were completely destroyed. Most of Loseling's monks were...
by Sarah Gibbons | Jun 19, 2008 | Stage
In 1965, the country was in the midst of a vicious war, had just endured the assassination of its beloved president, and was embarking on an era of free love and decadence. John Guare’s House of Blue Leaves (which first premiered off-Broadway in 1971) is set in...
by Kendra Thurlow | Jun 25, 2008 | Stage
"Sockdologizing" was a fashionable slang word in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it means stunning, forceful or decisive, as a blow. It's one of the last few words President Abraham Lincoln heard before he was shot.Lincoln and his wife, Mary, seated in...
by Sarah Gibbons | Jun 26, 2008 | Stage
Modern dance pioneer Ted Shawn and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, purchased the Jacob’s Pillow farm in 1930 in hopes of creating a pastoral setting for their dance company. But the Denishawn Company’s residence was to be short-lived—the couple separated a...
by Sam Kimball | Jul 3, 2008 | Stage
Abitter family feud, unrequited young love and suicide–not reality TV, but the classic story of Romeo and Juliet. The local Hampshire Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Under the Stars 2008 summer season kicks off with a production of this enduring, popular...
