April 12, 2011 | News, Notes From Leadership,
Inaugural thanks
We’ll be announcing our second season of 15 projects shortly, but I want to take a moment to thank all of you who have been part of the new adventures...
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April 4, 2011 | Theatre,
“Anything can happen. I’m proof of it.”
Part three of a three-part series on Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham By Alyssa Mulligan Since his acting resume is over 200 roles long, Emerson College students and faculty were...
Read MoreApril 3, 2011 | Theatre,
“I am more than Amadeus.”
Part two of a three-part series on Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham By Alyssa Mulligan Some may say that the pinnacle of actor F. Murray Abraham’s career was when he...
Read MoreMarch 30, 2011 | Theatre,
Merchant of Venice: It’s All About the Ducats
By Jason Rabin What happens when commerce dominates the soul of a society? Shakespeare had some thoughts. It’s a central subject of his The Merchant of Venice, a comedy of...
Read MoreMarch 29, 2011 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,
The Power of Live Theatre
It’s a thrill for any theatre-goer to witness a transcendent performance; one that takes your breath away, is burnished on your brain forever, and is anchored not in technique and...
Read MoreMarch 29, 2011 | Theatre,
The Tale behind The Merchant of Venice?
A patron recently brought to our attention a story printed in Jacob R. Marcus’ The Jew in the Medieval World that illuminates one of Shakespeare’s possible sources for The Merchant...
Read MoreMarch 23, 2011 | Theatre,
“Shylock is me.”
Part one of a three-part series on Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham By Alyssa Mulligan Sitting in the Semel Theatre on Emerson’s campus with fellow students and faculty, I anxiously...
Read MoreMarch 22, 2011 | Theatre,
Peter Brook: Theatre Legend (Part 2)
By Jason Rabin In his native Britain, Brook is known as a sort of high priest of Avant-Garde Theatre, partly because so many of his projects have had an epic spiritual...
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