Month: January 2016

  • Month: January 2016
January 29, 2016 | What Did You Think?,

What Did You Think of An Octoroon

    – In the program interview, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins says, “Melodrama is always about good and evil,” and suggests that we find comfort in this familiar narrative device. How...

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January 28, 2016 | Theatre,

Filter’s Twelfth Night by Paul Taylor

When the Royal Shakespeare Company first commissioned Filter to make a creative response to Twelfth Night as a feature of the great Complete Works project that unfolded in Stratford in 2006–2007, it...

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January 28, 2016 | Theatre,

The Bard on Our Boards

Over the years, ArtsEmerson has hosted a few focus groups to hear people’s perceptions of and desires for our programming. One frequent piece of feedback we’ve received is the request...

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January 22, 2016 | What Did You Think?,

What Did You Think of Filter’s Twelfth Night?

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”    What did you think of Filter’s Twelfth Night?   Did you revel in the madness?   Has someone ever tried to...

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January 5, 2016 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

Tonight IS Twelfth Night

Or, What You Will   Hooray! It’s Twelfth Night!   You know that catchy little holiday song “Twelve Days of Christmas”? Well, we’ve arrived at the Pipers Piping part of...

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