Who is Tartuffe?
Check out these videos on the inveterate con man, Tartuffe, to hear what some of those who have spent a lot of time with him over the past month think about him:
New Performing Arts Students Welcomed in Style
New Performing Arts undergraduate and graduate students were welcomed to Emerson College during Orientation Week by faculty, staff, and their peers at the fourth annual Welcome Soiree!
Emerson senior awarded Kennedy Center Fellowship
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Emerson senior, Tierra Bonser was awarded the Kennedy Center/ Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Dramaturgy Fellowship to the Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop and New Play Dramaturgy Intensive … Continued
New Center for the Theater Commons Arrives
The online theater journal, HowlRound, has dedicated this week to a discussion of the establishment of The Center for the Theater Commons (The Commons) at Emerson College. HowlRound and The Commons was initially developed through The American Voices New Play Institute … Continued
A Constellation of Moments
by Magda Romanska The trouble is I can’t make sense of my life at all. I can’t see a beginning and a middle and an end It seems to me to be just a bunch of random vivid moments I … Continued
The Value of a New Perspective: Directing Cafe Variations
What’s it like to work with director Anne Bogart and the SITI Company? Assistant Director of Café Variations, Nick Medvescek, a junior BA Theatre Studies major concentrating in Performance & Directing tell us!
Café Variations: Interview with the Cast
Jayson James, who plays Andrew C in the upcoming production of Café Variations, is a junior BA Theatre Studies: Performance major at Emerson College. Jayson sat down with us to talk about the production. Watch the video!
A Rhapsody to Inspire
George Gershwin’s masterful Rhapsody in Blue is both inventive and inspirational. It’s also the musical through-line of Café Variations, the unabashedly romantic world-premiere celebration of café culture co-produced by Emerson Stage, ArtsEmerson, and SITI Company. Use Gershwin’s music to … Continued
Café Variations: Meet the Designers
Interview with Brian Scott, lighting designer by Tierra Bonser Brian Scott described his role as lighting designer as a, “visual storyteller with light composition, the purpose of which is to support the way a story is being told as a … Continued
Journey to the Jungle
Last week we welcomed the twenty-first annual NewFest production to the stage with the black comedy, Rough & Tumble, by Patrick McDonald. Patrick is the recipient of the 2012 Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship. His play, a comedic look at reality … Continued