November 2, 2017 | Theatre,
An Interview with Director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
“We are living through a time when we all have a tendency, at one level or another, to one degree or another, to shut out the negative destruction all...
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October 31, 2017 | Theatre,
Albert Camus – Key Dates
Albert Camus penned L’État de siège (The State of Siege) almost directly in the middle of his celebrated writing career. How many works by this Nobel Prize winning author have...
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October 31, 2017 | Theatre,
The State of Denial & The State of Siege
In May I found myself in Rennes, France, on the eve of that nation’s presidential election. As a part of my responsibilities at ArtsEmerson I travel to see work....
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October 27, 2017 | Events,
2nd Annual World Alive! Celebration
An “Intentionally Different, Entirely ArtsEmerson” Event On October 11th, we gathered for the 2nd annual World Alive! Celebration. This year, donors came together to support the recently launched Gaining...
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October 26, 2017 | What Did You Think?,
What Did You Think About Kiss
Thanks for joining us for Guillermo Calderon’s Kiss. There are so many layers and in the writing and performance of this piece, click here to see excerpts from a conversation...
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Syria, Chile, & The Limits of Theatre: A Discussion with the Author and Director of Kiss
In Kiss, Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón brings his masterful sensibility to an intense, tightly wound story where naiveté can turn out to be the kiss of death....
Read MoreOctober 23, 2017 | Notes From Leadership,
Feeling the Distance of Syria
“Kiss begins on a set. In all of Guillermo’s plays he’s playing on our willingness to suspend our disbelief. Guillermo Calderón grew up in the Pinochet era in Chile. He...
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October 2, 2017 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,
Using Our Marquees to Foster a Dialogue with our Community
The ArtsEmerson leadership team on the practice of using the Emerson Paramount Center and Cutler Majestic Theatre marquees for far more than show promotion. We have made a habit...
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