The quiet weeping. The convulsive laughter. The surge of sympathy for a character that suddenly turns to empathy when you realize it’s your story they are telling. Beauty. Intelligence. Grace....
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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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THU-SAT: 12–6PM
SUN & MON: Closed
TUE-SAT: 12PM–6PM
SUN & MON: Closed
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