On the eve of the big storm, a blizzard of good news: Feb's notes and honors from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Recent MCC awardee Caitlin O'Neil reviews George Rosen's short story collection The Immanence of God in the Tropics for Ploughshares: "he writes with such stark, unadorned clarity that distant places snap into focus." Sophia Ainslie has a solo show, in … [Read more...]
Plays All Day
Since 1999, the Boston Theater Marathon (May 21-22, 2011) has been like a day-long birthday party for new plays, thrown in vigorously good spirits by a game New England theater community. In 2009, the festival's winning model - 50 short plays performed by 50 theater companies in one day at the Boston Center for the Arts - was augmented with the Warm-up Laps, a slate of free … [Read more...]