121 stories by "Debra Cash"
"Suffs" bounces through a timeline of conferences, direct actions, interpersonal snits, and self-questioning over whether the entire endeavor is really worth it.
By Debra Cash This, my friends, is what a capital D Diva looks like. The Queen of Versailles Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Lindsey Ferrentino, based on Lauren Greenfield's do…
Arlekin Players Theatre's "The Dybbuk" may not convince you of the supernatural, but director Igor Golyak is a magician.
You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.
In our intersectional age, the stories of the fools of Chelm belong on the shelves of any child with a taste for the ridiculous and -- with the clarity of kids -- an ability to see through s…
Susan Larson's The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.
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David Treuer's expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.
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The horrors portrayed in See You Yesterday are facts, but this show does not yet address the meaning a new generation can make of those facts.
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Invariably, these economic realities are barriers to entry into the broader cultural arena for the less-well-heeled among us, sustaining inequity.
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The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing -- an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics' theories and abstractions.
Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.
The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.
For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
The heart of this theatrical reboot is what it means to go for broke and bet on love, or art, or both.
Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.
Brian Seibert's history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.
Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.
What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?
George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.
Now 58, the noted choreographer's succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
Monica Bill Barnes's choreographic method can be characterized as make 'em laugh, then make 'em think.
Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.
Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.
The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.
You'd be a fool to miss taking advantage of Boston's Mayor's Holiday.
