Cambridge playwright Amy Merrill collaborated with Iraqi artist Elham Nasser Al-Zabeedy to create "The Song Which Has Forgotten to Grow Older," a play with music. The play will be performed twice in June - Friday, June 15, 2018, 7 PM, Atlantic Wharf in Boston and Sunday, June 24, 2018, Arts at the Armory in Somerville - as part of Her Story Is, an evening of performances and … [Read more...]
Nina Louise Morrison: The Greenhouse Playlab
Nina Louise Morrison is one of the four playwrights commissioned to write new plays for The Greenhouse Playlab: A Climate Change Theater Incubator. An excerpt of her new play THE VAULT will be read at the Museum of Science (5/4, 70-10 PM), and there will be a workshop performance at the Democracy Center in Cambridge (5/6, 7 PM). We asked the 2017 Mass Cultural Council … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Stefan Lanfer
In this Three Stages post, Stefan Lanfer explores his play An Education in Prudence, which will premiere in February (Feb 9-24), produced by Open Theatre Project at St. Johns Church in Jamaica Plain. In February 2015, I was named a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow for early work on my new play, An Education in Prudence. At that point, I had been working on it for … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 17
In April, a shower of news from past and present Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship awardees. LEFT ON PEARL Preview/Trailer from Susan Rivo on Vimeo. Natalie Alper, Anne Neely, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship are part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters from 1950 to Now at the deCordova Museum … [Read more...]
Announcing 32 Awards in Crafts, Dramatic Writing, and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
The Massachusetts Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2017 Artist Fellowship awards in Crafts, Dramatic Writing, and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres. Sixteen artists will receive fellowships of $12,000, and 16 artists will receive $1,000 finalist awards. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and creative ability of the work … [Read more...]