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Under the new artistic direction of Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is in for a massive rehaul. Forget about just breaking the fourth wall: Paulus is determined to conceive of the whole world as a stage, with audience members getting in on the play...
...director, my driving source of inspiration is the audience. Theater is more than simply a play on the stage; it’s a ritual, a social occasion for people to come together and experience community,” Paulus wrote in her inaugural address as Artistic Director. The organization of the current season’s schedule attests to an emphasis on encouraging dynamic interchange between the performer and spectator...
...training was fairly intensive,” Cutler recalls of his involvement in the arts at Harvard during the 80s. Working towards a special concentration in Dramatic Theory and Literature, he cut his teeth as a director in a number of campus productions. “I directed a play or two every semester that I was an undergraduate,” he recalls. “And then after I graduated, I worked at the A.R.T. and taught at the Institute for Advanced Theater Training [during] its very first year.”Further postgraduate endeavors led Cutler...
...even just a few minutes of free time to something worthwhile. Micro-volunteering opportunities abound on BeExtra.org, from using your smartphone to view and label photos (to help digitize museum archives) to snapping a picture of a local park (to help build a map of places where kids can play...
...apology. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy was beside himself as he walked out of the House chamber. "I've been here for 35 years. I've been here for seven presidents. I've never heard anything like that," he said, adding that he had no doubt how it would play in the hinterlands. "It strengthens the President, because it demonstrates what he is facing. Most people have respect for the President...