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...black dominated hip-hop scene, and that must have influenced the choice of the Beasties as his follow-up to “Tupac Shakur.” His main interest is in the early years of Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D a.k.a. Adam Horowitz (son of playwright Israel Horowitz!), Adam Yauch, and Michael Diamond...
...preparation for a typical musical has its familiar anxieties: cutting a favorite song, replacing a dialogue scene, finding some extra business for the star. That's nothing compared with the three-year ordeal of bringing Middle-earth to life. The mostly British creative team, beginning with playwright Shaun McKenna, had to figure out how to choreograph the complex battles Tolkien described; how to visualize the dozen realms in the saga and the dozens of characters of many species; how to blend narrative, drama and music in a three-act production--and do it all without retakes or post-production computer...
...late Arthur Miller—and the recently-released anthology of Miller’s play edited by Kushner.Before the event at the Brattle, Kushner also made a visit to at Harvard Hillel to discuss the influence of his Jewish roots on his writing and politics.The New York-based playwright and self-described “Jewish-American gay socialist” brought these many facets of his persona to controversial interpretations of Miller’s plays as well as his own construction of Jewish identity.A GAY JEW IN LOUISIANAIn a question-and-answer session with about 40 Harvard...
When Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s “The Isle of the Dead”—which forms half of this week’s Loeb Ex production—premiered in Sweden in 1907, it made a name for itself in only one way: as a tremendous failure. The play, which flopped, has rarely been performed in the almost 100 years since, and it has never before been seen by American audiences...
...months reading about Strindberg and perusing his work—but he has also retranslated them from the original Swedish with the help of Harvard Scandinavian Club president Maria E. Troein ’07. Strindberg, a contemporary of Ibsen, has long been written off as an insignificant playwright by English speakers mainly due to the sloppy translations of his plays...