To See or Not to See: The Seafarer
Playwright Conor McPherson’s absorbing tale, The Seafarer, takes center stage at the Irish Repertory Theatre. In The Seafarer, Christmas Eve day and night unfold in a Dublin living room of an
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Alexandra Silber
Gifted storyteller, brilliant thinker, accomplished actor: Alexandra Silber is a consummate artist with a luminous voice on stage and page. A veteran of Broadway and the West End, Silber has
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To See or Not to See: The Edge of Our Bodies
16 year-old Bernadette is many things: a child of a marriage on the rocks, a boarding school student, a wannabe writer, a wannabe actress, a dedicated girlfriend, and, sometimes, a
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To See or Not to See: Feeding the Dragon
Sharon Washington spent part of her childhood (from 1969 to 1973) living in a library. Her father, George, was charged with keeping the furnace of the St. Agnes branch of the
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To See or Not to See: Once On This Island
Once upon a time, a scrappy, little musical with a big heart, big themes, and big talent opened on the island of Manhattan. It had a respectable, spirited run on
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To See or Not to See: Lobby Hero
In Lobby Hero, playwright Kenneth Lonergan presents us with everyday, working class people who all are, at their cores, decent human beings; they all, however, make morally questionable decisions. Jeff
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Abby Rosebrock
Abby Rosebrock steps on stage—and stays behind stage—as an actor and the writer of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s production of Dido of Idaho. We were able to chat with Abby
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Ben Stanton
Ben Stanton has lit stages from concert venues to Broadway. His lighting designs are integral to each production and help immerse the audience in the world they are experiencing. We
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Frances Ruffelle
Best known for creating the iconic character Eponine in Les Miserables, Tony Award-winner Frances Ruffelle now comes to the stage in a very different way. She has created a new solo
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Pop Culturalist Chats with A Bronx Tale’s Adam Kaplan
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. It’s a lesson that audiences take away night after night at the Longacre Theatre in New York City, home to the must-see
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