Year: 2011

  • Year: 2011
August 17, 2011 | Theatre,

The first ever “audience performance company”

I wanted to open our second season with something ground-breaking and fun, and what better theatre to partner with than The Foundry out of New York. It’s called HOW MUCH...

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August 9, 2011 | Theatre,

A play built out of questions? Yes, it really works!

By Heidi Nelson Can you name a play in which audience members dance, turn change out of their pockets, speak truths, tell lies, weave stories about the past, and share...

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July 8, 2011 | Theatre,

The Circus Is in Town…All the Time!

By Heidi Nelson Once upon a time, quirky traveling troupes with acrobats, animals and sideshows roamed the American landscape, lighting up towns and cities for brief appearances and then moving...

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June 24, 2011 | Theatre,

What Are You Afraid of?

by Heidi Nelson From getting the creeps from crawlies to freaking about flying, fears of one kind or another are fairly common. Many celebrities even suffer from phobias. Within the...

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June 17, 2011 | Notes From Leadership,

“Why are we concerned with art?”

As a not-for-profit organization enjoying an indirect subsidy from the government (ie: not taxed) we are obligated to provide a service to the public that would not be possible were...

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May 20, 2011 | Theatre,

Jason Rabin – DavidLeddyEdit3

Podcast conversation with Jason Rabin and SUSURRUS Director and Playwright David Leddy.

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May 19, 2011 | Theatre,

The Opera inside “Susurrus”

By Jason Rabin Susurrus weaves a variety of discourses and perspectives together to tell its complex tale, and they all revolve around another piece of auricular adaptation: composer Benjamin Britten’s...

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May 9, 2011 | Theatre,

Finding Their Voice Through Theatre

As ArtsEmerson student employees and Theatre Education graduate students at Emerson College, Kristy Mandour and Alyssa Mulligan jointly taught an extracurricular theatre course at Citizen Schools in Roslindale this past...

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