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March 30, 2020 | General, News, Together Apart,

Artist Resources During COVID-19

In the past few weeks, theaters throughout the world have gone dark and have shifted quickly to gathering in digital spaces rather than on our stages in order to flatten...

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March 26, 2020 | Notes From Leadership, News, Together Apart,

How We Got Here

Today, March 26th, 2020 was the scheduled start date for Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. To explain how and why the venue will be empty...

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March 20, 2020 | General,

How A Season Comes Together

ArtsEmerson artistic director David Dower started a conversation in 2015 that is still ongoing in the theater community. Namely, he wanted to carve out space to a comment on the...

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March 13, 2020 | News,

ArtsEmerson suspends events to combat spread of COVID-19 virus

ArtsEmerson today announces that it will suspend scheduled public gatherings beginning Friday, March 13, with the hope of continuing more regular activity by the end of April 2020. In all...

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March 11, 2020 | What Did You Think?,

Let’s Talk About Plata Quemada!

After their production of Historia de Amor during our 15/16 Season, we are thrilled to welcome back TEATROCINEMA to ArtsEmerson with Plata Quemada (MAR 11-15). This graphic novel come to...

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March 10, 2020 | Events, Theatre, Race and Equity,

Parable Read and Civic Transformation

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower has become an ever present staple in American literature, and though published in 1993, remains continuously relevant today. With rising mounting concerns surrounding...

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February 25, 2020 | Theatre,

Toshi Reagon and the Musical Revolution of Parable of the Sower

Self described as a “postmodern rhythm & blues woman who’s got something special,” it is no surprise that Toshi Reagon has captured the attention of artists and activists worldwide. Toshi...

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February 19, 2020 | Theatre,

The Fire This Time

In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes posed the famous question “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?… Or does it explode? ...

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