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BU on Broadway Splash

Exploring student arts groups at BU

Stella Tannenbaum June 8, 2022
Students can join a capella, magazines, visual arts, dance, theater and comedy clubs on campus.

‘Waiting for Godot’: Absurdity, time and ‘entertainment’

Daily Free Press Admin November 13, 2013

An air of the eerily bizarre hangs upon the stage with the beginning of Gare St. Lazare Players’ version of Waiting for Godot. Estragon (“Gogo”) fumbles with his too-tight boot, squatting in...

INTERVIEW: Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Daily Free Press Admin October 30, 2013

Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie is best known for being a member of the seminal improvisation television program Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show was a hit in Britain, where Colin Mochrie first joined...

Shrek the Musical: From swamp, to stage, to silver screen

Joe Incollingo October 16, 2013

Once upon a time, David Lindsay-Abaire won a Pulitzer. What he did after that makes him either the most versatile or the most insane writer working today: He put Shrek on a stage. Now, three years after...

Dance Showcase 2013 shines spotlight on BU talent

Daily Free Press Admin October 2, 2013

The Boston University Dance Theater was full of movement Friday and Saturday when BU’s dance program held its Dance Showcase 2013 at the Buick Street theater. The showcase included 10 pieces, four...

LBJ play brilliantly dares Americans to go ‘All The Way’

Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2013

Winston Churchill famously grieved that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Indeed, malice and stagnation have marked Washington “democracy” since its inception,...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “returns” to Boston in a play

Daily Free Press Admin September 12, 2013

Fifty years on, after circumnavigating the marble columns of the Lincoln Memorial, diffusing the sticky humidity of Montgomery and fortifying the granite foundation of Marsh Chapel, the words of Dr. Martin...

REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie: A Brilliant Memory

Daily Free Press Admin March 17, 2013

For some, memories can bring about positive thoughts. But for Tom Wingfield, one of the main characters in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, memories act as cannonballs strapped to his ankles...

‘Mythos:Pathos’ premiers for one-night-only performance at Oberon

Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2012

“Mythos:Pathos” one-night-only performance on Thursday night marks the end of the Luminarium Dance Company’s newest full-length production. Mount Holyoke College alumnae Merli Guerra and Kimberleigh...

Review: Boston Ballet’s Fall Program

Daily Free Press Admin October 31, 2012

The Boston Ballet’s Fall Program at the Boston Opera House, which opened Thursday Oct. 25, presents a blend of contemporary and classical dance styles in a way that manages to evoke nostalgia, yet in...

Interview: Director Judy Braha previews “Camille”

Daily Free Press Admin October 11, 2012

As a part of this year’s Fall Fringe Festival, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts presents “Camille,” a modern interpretation of an Alexandre Dumas novel about a doomed love affair. Director...

Festival on a spaceship

Daily Free Press Admin September 26, 2012

When I walked into the Boston Film Festival at The Revere Hotel this weekend I felt like I was walking into a ritzy club on a spaceship. In the waiting room outside Theater 1, there were groovy modern...

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