You might view the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan story as a key to understanding the scandal-devouring nature of American culture - a kind of tabloid Rosetta Stone. Or you might view it as an occasion to rock. In either case, you'd be right: Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera, returns the the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon in Cambridge for six performances July 18-21, 2011. In early … [Read more...]
Artist to Artist: Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle
Both authors have made careers of writing highly-acclaimed literary fiction; most recently, Lise Haines wrote Girl in the Arena and Elizabeth Searle wrote the novella and story collection Celebrities in Disgrace. And both authors find their creative lives veering in intriguing new trajectories — working with genres, forms, and subjects previously uncharted in their writing … [Read more...]