Elizabeth Addison, creator, composer, lyricist, musical director and founder of the Reviving Visions Theatre Company, reveals the song in her heart with her new musical This is Treatment. A staged reading of this provocative story of addiction, recovery and women helping women will occur on Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 5:30 pm. The Dance Complex in Cambridge. I began … [Read more...]
Interviews
Bob Oppenheim: Sewing and Painting
Mass Cultural Council and the New Art Center (NAC) will present the Mass Cultural Council Artists Fellows and Finalists in Painting, October 28 - November 15, 2014 at the NAC, 61 Washington Park in Newtonville, MA (opening reception Thurs, Nov. 6, 6-8:30 PM). The installation will be curated by independent curator, FLUX.Boston creator, and NAC Board member Liz Devlin in … [Read more...]
John Kuntz Goes Epic
Theatre artist John Kuntz has an epic imagination, whether for inhabiting the turmoil of a 600-lb man as an actor or for conjuring the interwoven stories surrounding a mysterious hotel as a playwright. But until recently, he hadn't written plays on an epic scale. Intriguing then that the Circuit Theatre Company, the troupe producing John's latest play The Annotated History … [Read more...]
A Rare Insight
Every story suggests a larger narrative. Even complete in its own right, it can serve as a tile within a larger mosaic, or a window overlooking a vaster experience. Photographer and filmmaker Michaela O'Brien encountered two girls with the rare skin disease Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), and her investigations of their story led to the documentary In Crystal Skin, as well as a … [Read more...]
Tova Mirvis: Visible City
Tova Mirvis, a 2010 Artist Fellow in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, is about to publish her third novel, Visible City, an engrossing story of neighbors whose lives unfold in close-set NYC apartments. As the author prepares to launch the book (March 18, 2014 at Newtonville Books), she shares details about her writing process, living with "undoneness," and the writer/voyeur … [Read more...]