Like all great revolutionaries, the Boston Public Library started out small. Founded from a handful of books in 1848, it’s grown into one of the most significant research facilities in the country.
To a comedy club owner, a funny joke is serious business. That’s one of the things we learned about the “funny business” from Norm Laviolette, one of the owners of Laugh Boston.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design fashion design students were
recently given an interesting challenge: To create an ensemble out of
anything but textiles.
One
of the most poignant things that Andrew Lippa’s mentor Stephen Schwartz ever
said to him was, “Sooner or later, you’ll find that you’re writing the same
thing
Boston’s North End has changed significantly since Michele Topor moved there in the 1970s. Before the Big Dig, it was a much quieter neighborhood, nowhere near as populated as it is today.
When the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy asked
a group of local elementary school students which animals they would
most like to ride, their answers were predictably imaginative...
Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman may be known as a genius in the
theater world, but she still gets nervous when she signs on to direct a
new show. “You have to work your way through about 72 hours of this sort
of overwhelming, frenzied feeling about it and then just forget about
all that,” she says.
Kalin Mitov was just five years old when he fell in love with dancing. His sister’s friend, a dancer, was the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen, and when she took him to one of her dance competit