Year: 2015

  • Year: 2015
November 10, 2015 | Theatre,

Isango on language, surtitles, and celebrating art not in your native tongue:

At ArtsEmerson, we greatly appreciate when an international company comes to our city and inspires us to rethink the way we experience art. Isango Ensemble performs South Africans reimagining of...

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November 4, 2015 | Theatre,

What it’s like to remove the piano from a piano concerto

Next week we’ll bring a show to ArtsEmerson that’s truly hard to compare to other productions (we couldn’t think of one quite like it) and most certainly difficult to describe....

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November 1, 2015 | Theatre,

Habanera – The Rebellious Song No One Can Tame

Habanera is a bold and beautiful statement from the title character of Bizet’s Carmen. She opens with “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame.” Translations vary describing the...

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October 19, 2015 | Theatre,

Do Not Use Our Music

It’s an event you can almost set your watch to these days: a U.S. politician plays a popular U.S. artist’s music at a rally, and in turn, that artist tells...

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October 8, 2015 | Theatre,

What is it like having An Audience with Meow Meow?

You’ve done it – you’ve had an audience with Meow Meow – or rather, you were an audience with Meow Meow. Either way, there should be plenty to talk about...

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October 7, 2015 | Theatre,

Searching for Boston’s Mr. Joy

For the run of Mr. Joy, we’ve had a place in the lobby for folks to let us know who their Mr. Joy is. The answers have been illuminating and...

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October 7, 2015 | Theatre,

Welcome to the Neighborhood

By Kevin Becerra       While this neighborhood has had many names and identities in the almost 400 years of the city’s existence, none of them have had the...

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October 7, 2015 | Theatre,

The Audience Is the Most Important Thing

Not too long ago, there was a big to-do in New York when an audience member at a performance went onto the stage right before the show started to plug...

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