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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February 19, 2020 | Theatre,
The Real Life Origins of Plata Quemada
Plata Quemada is an eye-popping live-graphic-novel depicting Argentina’s most daring bank heist.
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February 13, 2020 | Theatre,
Crime, Redemption, and the Search for the Truth: Films that Remind us of Plata Quemada
Chilean theatre makers TEATROCINEMA arrive in Boston on March 11th, delivering the heart-pulsing noir tale of Argentina’s most notorious heist, Plata Quemada (MAR 11-15). Ahead of its much anticipated arrival...
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February 4, 2020 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,
WHAT WAS HE THINKING? by David Dower
There was a moment, in the first week of my junior year of high school, that is the origin story for my life in theatre. It was a small moment,...
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January 21, 2020 | Theatre, Notes From Leadership,
Happy New Year by Artistic Director David Dower
So glad you have chosen to start of the new decade at ArtsEmerson. We kick off the second half of our 10th season with Australia’s Back to Back Theatre. We...
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January 14, 2020 | Theatre,
Will Power, a playwright by and for the people
A playwright, performer, rapper, lyricist, educator, and beyond, Will Power is an artist who views theatre as a vehicle for transformation. Credited as a pioneer of hip-hop theatre, which made...
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January 6, 2020 | Theatre,
Introducing Back to Back Theatre
Later this month, ArtsEmerson will welcome our first production from Australia with The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes (JAN 23-26) from Back to Back Theatre. Based in Geelong —...
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December 17, 2019 | Theatre, Race and Equity,
Before He was Malcolm X
Fifty four years after his assassination, the name Malcolm X still reverberates with the ethos of dogged intolerance to oppression. His name is an evocation — a recalling of a...
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