November 9, 2018 | Theatre,
WET: A DACA-mented Journey – Supplemental Guide
Whether you are preparing to experience WET or you have seen it multiple times, there is a lot to process and dig deeper into. Knowing this, we put together a...
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November 9, 2018 | Theatre,
The Hip-Hop Songs That Inspire Alex Alpharaoh
The voice of Alpharaoh, as he’s known artistically, makes meaning of the experience through hip-hop lyricism. “I’m an MC first and then I’m everything else,” he says. “The storytelling aspect...
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November 8, 2018 | Theatre, What Did You Think?,
Let’s Talk About WET: A DACA-mented Journey
Thank you joining us for Cara Mia and Ignite/Arts’ production of WET: A DACAmented Journey. We want to know what you thought, so please leave your comments below. Did you learn...
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November 8, 2018 | Theatre,
The Boston Globe interviews WET’s Alex Alpharaoh: “I’m tired of hiding. I’m a human being.”
“I can walk out of this theater,” Alpharaoh said in a phone interview from Dallas, “get arrested for some bogus reason, and all they need is the quote unquote...
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November 7, 2018 | Theatre,
WET’s Alex Alpharaoh on WGBH’s Greater Boston
“How do you deal with that constant fear?” – Jim Braude “Turn it into art!” – Alex Alpharaoh Hit play on this must-see interview that aired last night on WGBH....
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November 6, 2018 | News, Theatre, Race and Equity,
Immigration Reform and the 2018 Midterms
We’ve all experienced it for months at this point; the current election cycle is a ceaseless storm of sound bites and inconsistent information. Like a radio scanner bouncing between channels,...
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November 1, 2018 | General, News, Theatre,
At ArtsEmerson, A Stage With 11 Empty Chairs To Remember Victims Of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre
“This is something we do all too regularly,” ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower writes me. “It started the morning after the Charleston shooting” in which eight people were murdered in...
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October 31, 2018 | Race and Equity, News, Theatre,
The Narrow Path to U.S. Citizenship
Becoming a United States citizen is a process laden with bureaucratic loopholes, stifling processes, and nearly aspect is requires a innate knowledge of the immigration system. With President Trump’s...
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