March 26, 2012 | Theatre,
The Music of Gershwin
By Magda Romanska As a child, George Gershwin would constantly get in trouble; he was well on his way to becoming a juvenile delinquent. It was sheer luck that saved...
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March 23, 2012 | Theatre,
Café Culture History, Part 5: The History of the Cybercafé
By Magda Romanska Beginning in the 1990s, many traditional cafés began transforming into so-called cybercafés or internet cafés. The transformation once again reestablished the historical role of cafés as places...
Read MoreMarch 21, 2012 | Theatre,
Café Culture History, Part 3: Café Culture and Public Spaces
By Magda Romanska American scholars have long noted the comparative scarcity of informal public spaces in American social and cultural life. In the last few decades, the public sphere, parks,...
Read MoreMarch 20, 2012 | Theatre,
ArtsEmerson Conversations: THE ANDERSEN PROJECT
In anticipation of The Andersen Project, Emerson professor Magda Romanska talks to Lawrence Switzky, professor of English and drama at The University of Toronto and author of The Rise of...
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Café Culture History, Part 2: Café Culture and the Age of Enlightenment
By Magda Romanska The first American coffee house opened in Boston in 1676. Right away, beginning in the late seventeenth century, coffee houses in Boston and New York served as...
Read MoreMarch 16, 2012 | Theatre,
Check out these films, books and music related to Tomáš Kubínek
By Corrie Glanville FILMS/THEATRE Man on a Tightrope (1953) The intrigue of a Czech circus is the center of this 1950s classic directed by Elia Kazan; in 1952 Czechoslovakia Karel...
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The Creator of THE ANDERSEN PROJECT: Robert Lepage
By Alyssa Mulligan ROBERT LEPAGE Born: December 12, 1957 Hometown: Quebec City Career Highlights: In 1982 he joined Théâtre Repère In 1985 The Dragon’s Trilogy won...
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Café Culture History, Part 1: “Sobering Up of Europe”
By Magda Romanska Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and...
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