Honest life is messy. Toni Morrison has a way of showing life honestly with layers of beauty, pain, familiarity, discomfort, judgment and truth. When I first read The Bluest Eye, my definition of literature and writing expanded exponentially. I had never read a novel that sang to me and drew …
Imagine Van Gogh has at last made it to the United States with Boston as their first city. Imagine Van Gogh opened at the SoWa Power Station which is a huge open indoor space. The exhibit feels like quite a safe space to explore thanks to all visitors being masked …
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Can something be funny and gruesome? Not gruesome in an over the top horror movie comedy kind of gruesome, but like mankind (and yes here I truly do mean MANkind) looking at its own reflection kind of gruesome. Teenage Dick is funny and tragic there is no other way to …
The thing about nostalgia is that it comes with a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. Nostalgia exists by remembering the sweet, good parts of a place and time and forgetting all the rest. Seeing Million Dollar Quartet was the perfect little escape back in time. It made me think …
We’ve become quite familiar with the sentiment: You have to laugh because otherwise you’d be crying. Between the last presidency and the current pandemic we are all at our wit’s end. Ironically wit is what has been keeping many of us alive. Playwright Jen Silverman’s Witch is a masterful work …
We know that the picture of the life presented in history class, in books, in movies, and pretty much in every part of our lives is a one dimensional sketch lacking colour. From the new Wonder Years, to offerings on Netflix, and cable tv, to the authors being read in …
In the every day, if you are lucky, you are constantly chasing a little magic. The magic is that little moment that catches you off guard and makes you smile, laugh, or wonder. Chasing Magic’s underlying themes of every day life remind you of these moments. In this grand reopening …
Our country has been divided in so many ways throughout history. Sometimes it is a political agenda and other times it is human nature. This Saturday September 19th, The Boston Theatre Company (BTC) will start stitching up some of those divisions with a virtual performance of The Gay Agenda- A …
Join Arts Emerson this Fall Virtually: STEP AFRIKA! This fall, nothing is normal. While the world’s old status quo is gone, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Of course we could do without the masked Corona-virus life, but there is no point waiting for everything to just get back to …
