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October 12, 2018 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

A PECULIAR LOVE STORY BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID DOWER

  In interviews, Liza Jessie Peterson often talks about The Peculiar Patriot as a love story. Her heroine, she points out, was modeled on the people she would see waiting...

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October 5, 2018 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

My False, Your True by Artistic Director David Dower

  “Who will believe thee, Isabel? My unsoiled name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you and my place i’ the state, Will so your accusation overweigh That...

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June 7, 2018 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

A ‘Born For This’ Moment

Next week we will open a new musical, Born For This, in the Cutler Majestic Theatre. In many ways, ArtsEmerson was literally born for this moment. This new musical totally animates ArtsEmerson’s vision...

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May 15, 2018 | Notes From Leadership, Theatre,

Synchronize The Heartbeats

    A few years ago I was invited to serve on a panel for a major foundation. To begin the meeting, the facilitator asked the dozen of us at...

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April 3, 2018 | Race and Equity, News, Notes From Leadership,

Introducing the ArtsEmerson Race & Equity Series

Earlier this year, The Boston Globe published an op-ed piece written by ArtsEmerson’s Executive Director David Howse and Artistic Director David Dower in response to the paper’s Spotlight series on...

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March 28, 2018 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

ArtsEmerson’s David C. Howse Named to 2018 GK100 List of Boston’s Most Influential People of Color

    More than 300 Boston business leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals were in attendance on March 27th, 2018 celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Get Konnected!, Boston’s premier business networking event...

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February 22, 2018 | Notes From Leadership, Race and Equity, Theatre,

A Note from Playwright Claudia Rankine and Dramaturg P. Carl

  “You cannot live thirty years with something in your closet, which you know is there, and pretend it is not there without something terrible happening to you. If I...

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January 17, 2018 | Notes From Leadership,

The more you travel the world with us, the more you’ll understand

  A single snapshot of a butterfly is not going to tell you that it flies. Nor will it tell you that it was once a caterpillar. Similarly, it can...

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