StageStruck: Passionate About Plays

StageStruck: Passionate About Plays

“There’s a great belief in Amherst that conversation and dialogue can actually produce change,” says Zak Berkman. “The idea that if you can get everyone in the room to talk about something, it can affect the community as a whole.” Berkman...
Dramatically Digital

Dramatically Digital

The Metropolitan Opera was the first to burst the bounds of its own stage to stream high-definition digital transmissions of live performances to cinema screens around the country. Then Britain’s National Theatre started beaming plays from its home on...
The Anti-American Idol

The Anti-American Idol

DUMBO is one of those New York City revival neighborhoods with acronymic names and nouveau hip reputations. Nestled literally in the twin shadows of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, DUMBO (for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) boasts gentrified galleries,...
StageStruck: Still Clowning After All These Years

StageStruck: Still Clowning After All These Years

“Gould and Stearns have long had at least three sides,” says the Gould half of that duo. They are consummate clowns and committed social activists, as well as having distinct individual careers. This weekend, Peter Gould and Stephen Stearns celebrate 30...
StageStruck: Jazz Age Shakespeare

StageStruck: Jazz Age Shakespeare

If music be the food of love… vo-de-oh-doh! In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, young Viola, shipwrecked on an alien shore, disguises herself as a boy and becomes the go-between for the local duke, Orsino, in his fruitless courtship of the local countess,...