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- Veteran Broadway Team Endows Musical Theatre Program July 25, 2014For nearly a quarter of a century, producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley have been the toast of Broadway, winning nine Tony Awards between them, including this year’s Tony for Best Musical for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. They’ve also been generous supporters of BU’s College of Fine Arts. Lane (CFA’73) cochairs […]
- Celebrating the Bard at Breakneck Speed July 25, 2014As Polonius said in the second act of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” In their latest production, the Hub Theatre Company of Boston is clearly taking the line—now a familiar idiom—seriously. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a 90-minute comedy that, with only three actors on stage, manages to […]
- Graphic Novels 101 July 24, 2014Laura Jiménez is an “expert reader” of graphic novels, though until graduate school she had never read one—much less read one with expertise. A book-length story narrated through text and illustration, a graphic novel “looks like a book and smells like a book, and you can flip the pages,” says Jiménez, a School of Education […]
- POV: Where Is Europe While Ukraine Burns? July 24, 2014A European Union policy last year is at the root of the Ukrainian conflict that saw last Friday’s horrific downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane (by pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists, according to the United States). The Union offered Ukraine an “association agreement” designed to tighten the political and economic links between the two parties. When the […]
- Play Ball July 24, 2014One of summer’s signature pastimes—taking in a baseball game—isn’t always an affordable option for the budget-conscious in Boston. Tickets to Red Sox games are often prohibitively expensive for students and families. Happily, there’s another option tonight, as the minor-league Lowell Spinners host the Hudson Valley Renegades at 7:05 p.m. at Edward A. LeLache […]
