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BENT WIT CABARET

Axe to Ice re-updates vaudeville

There is a whole lot of shaking going on.

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AVENUE Q

When good puppets go bad

Broadway smash Avenue Q is not based on Sesame Street in any way shape or form. Nuh-uh. Nope.

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WORLD PASSIONS

For those of you who only know how to be romantic on February 14th, you may go back to your video game. For the rest of you, there is still time to see World Passions with the Boston Ballet.

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WAR OF THE WORLDS

Radio is the Sound Salvation

If Orson Welles were alive today, he could still fool people into thinking a Martian invasion were happening, just like he did when he performed War of the Worlds on the radio in 1938.

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47 WAYS TO DIE

What Horrors Lie Before You

What's being billed on TheaterMania.com as a take on The Gashlycrumb Tinies is actually more a pageant celebrating the dramatic interpretation of death.

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THE SUPERHEROINE MONOLOGUES

Spoiler alert!

From Playboy cartoons about Superman in the boudoir to classic Belushi skits depicting the Hulk taking a dump, we like to have fun imagining superheroes as real people. Superheroes and their stories, although massively awesome in their own right, are also massively silly. "If you look at comic book stories from the 1950s, the stories were ridiculous," says Greg Maraio, creator of The Superheroine Monologues.

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The Donkey Show

Welcome to Oberon

Diane Paulus is about to sprinkle fairy dust over Harvard Square. As the American Repertory Theater's new artistic director, Paulus will open her tenure with The Donkey Show, the deliriously modern and sexy adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that she and husband Randy Weiner created in 1998.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company dives into free fluffery

In this downturn economy, laughs come cheap. Patrons of this summer's production of The Comedy of Errors on the Boston Common will be snorting and chortling like the groundlings of Shakespeare's yesteryear, or so the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company hopes.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

On their website, Bad Habit Productions introduces their new show, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by reminding us that "in every dark tragedy lies an even darker comedy." So here is something for your postmodern sensibilities. The play has garnered fame as a work that ingeniously reframes Shakespeare's Hamlet as the absurdist capers of two minor characters.

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AFTER THE QUAKE

Haruki Murakami brought to life

While the Kobe earthquake and Sarin gas attacks were occurring in his native Japan in 1995, writer Haruki Murakami was teaching at Tufts, watching the disasters unfold from a television.


Featured Blogs

Homeless in Boston

By weeklydig on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 3:50 pm

Our office is directly across from the Pine Street Inn so we have our fair share of homeless wanderers in the neighborhood. Occasionally they come into our building and hang out on the stairs or even, like just the other day, come into our office and move into our bathroom. It's worst when it's really cold and I always feel torn about booting these folks. Life must be hard enough. But at the some time...get the hell out of my office! What would you do?


Dispatch from Sundance

By CaraBayles on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 8:16 pm

Please note: This is written by our beloved Art Director, who will be blogging from Sundance this week. (I'm just the copy and pasting monkey.) -CB

 

I never expected to end up volunteerig at the Sundance film festival. I wanted to do it, but life always seems to come up. Well, here I am, six days into the fest, finally reporting to the beloved Dig readers.

 


How big is Pete Bouchard?

By Media Farm on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 6:10 pm

About nine inches (allegedly)!!


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