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BU on Broadway performs “Something Rotten!”

BU on Broadway’s ‘Something Rotten!’ is not your English teacher’s Shakespeare

Nicholas Nebiolo November 13, 2023
BUOB's production of "Something Rotten!" ran this past weekend from Nov. 9 to Nov. 11.
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BU Diversity, Inclusion hosts special education professor for discussion on history of disability movement

Kendall Richards October 14, 2021
Michael Wehmeyer presented the disability movement as three parts — professionals, parents and self-advocates.
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2020 Breakdown: To vote or not to vote? That is the question

Gabriella Aponte October 23, 2020
The massive faults of each candidate inspire very little confidence in the hearts of voters and it begs — to borrow some Shakespearean verbiage — the question: to vote or not to vote?
A man dressed in themed attire recites one of the 154 Shakespeare sonnets aloud in Harvard Square Saturday afternoon at the “Shakespeare Sonnet Slam,” which honored the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. PHOTO BY KANKANIT WIRIYASAJJA/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

“Sonnet slam” celebrates 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

Samantha Bastress April 27, 2016

William Shakespeare, renowned playwright and poet, died on April 23, 1616. Four hundred years later, a large crowd gathered Saturday in Harvard Square to read aloud all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets...

WILSHERE: Love's thrill is in its chase

WILSHERE: Love’s thrill is in its chase

Meredith Wilshere February 22, 2016

For the first time in my scholastic career, my life seemed to align with the storyline of a book. In class last week, we read William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which includes...

Brown Box Theatre Project put on a production of “The Taming of the Shrew,” on Aug. 30, 2015. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Brown Box’s “The Taming of the Shrew” refreshing, reinvented

Navraj Narula September 4, 2015

“The Taming of the Shrew” is a play within a play in which an Italian beggar-turned-lord is taught how to act as a noble by those who share his new status. The story they tell the man holds two sisters...

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