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March 15, 2016 | Notes From Leadership,

Historia as Metaphor by David Dower

In her 1989 book Aids and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag set about trying to discuss the AIDS pandemic in intellectualized terms, focusing on the mythologizing frames that created distance for...

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February 22, 2016 | Notes From Leadership,

“I Am He as You Are He as You Are Me and We Are All Together” by David Dower

  Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett. Two giants of world theatre, one from Russia, the other from Ireland, both on our stages this month. And in our screening room, films...

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February 8, 2016 | Notes From Leadership,

A Note from Executive Director David C. Howse

Levitating rocks, Farkian frogs, flying dragons, space travel? ArtsEmerson is no stranger to adventure, but who could have imagined all this? If your home is like mine, you know that...

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January 5, 2016 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

Tonight IS Twelfth Night

Or, What You Will   Hooray! It’s Twelfth Night!   You know that catchy little holiday song “Twelve Days of Christmas”? Well, we’ve arrived at the Pipers Piping part of...

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December 10, 2015 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

The Dangers of Brittle Orthodoxy

“Intentionally different. Entirely ArtsEmerson.”     If you’ve been following along this year, you’ll recognize that locution. We have been using it to describe the entire season, to let you...

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June 12, 2015 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,

There’s No Business Like Show Business

By David Dower “There’s no business like show business”   For his 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin wrote what has become the unofficial anthem of the American...

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April 16, 2015 | Notes From Leadership,

The Complications of Producing History

I’m thinking a lot about history these days, mostly because I don’t know what to think about it. What on earth are we to do with history? How do we...

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February 27, 2015 | Notes From Leadership,

Culture Clash: A Table of Context

By David Dower   In the populist, political, hit-and-run spirit of tonight’s performance, we offer the following quick snapshots from the people’s encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to orient you to the delirious,...

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