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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RECENTLY, playwright David Mamet moved to Cambridge. Maybe he knows something that New York theater-goers would be reluctant to admit--that Boston has a perfectly vibrant, active theater scene of its own. Most of this scene is located in or around the the area known as the theater district, near the Boylston stop on the Green Line, but theaters proliferate outside the area as well...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Boston Theater Refuses to Be Upstaged | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...theater, built in 1925 as the Metropolitan Theater, has been called the Wang Center since its restoration five years ago. Not only does the theater have one of the largest stages in the world--60 feet by 90 feet--but it is also the largest theater in Boston, with a seating capacity of 4225. Because of its size, the Wang also hosts a number of benefit concerts and other events each year...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Boston Theater Refuses to Be Upstaged | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...reputation today, including Mrs. Warren's Profession, You Never Can Tell and Arms and the Man, each of which has had a major New York City production within the past three years. He had already abandoned a prodigious journalistic career as an essayist and a critic of art, theater and music -- although he insisted his dramas too were a form of journalism and derived their value from that. He had made the Fabian Society his personal soapbox and successfully promoted it as an intellectual center for the British left. Had he done no more, a place in history would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Crybaby to Curmudgeon | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Eric Bogosian, a monologuist, is at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) this weekend with a work in progress entitled Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. Dressed in black, he relies on stories and characters instead of special effects or gimmicks to create his version of theater...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: All My Brain and Body Need | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

...financial wizards, I certainly do not think, considering the facts, they are deserving of the dishonest implications of your article. Perhaps if your paper would spend a little more time covering the Bach Society's concerts, and the music ensembles in general, as much as you do theater and other arts on campus, the group's concert revenues would be more sufficiently substantive to cover the expenses for their season and not be subject to the sensationalistic reporting of your publication. Scott C. Gregg '88 Music Director, Bach Society Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussing Orchestra Finances | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

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