Artscope Magazine

Q & A with Joi Gresham, Director and Co-Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust

Huntington Theater Company in Boston’s South End is currently performing Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” a play that first debuted in 1959. When Hansberry passed away in 1965, she named her former husband as her literary executor, and that man later remarried Joi Gresham’s mother. (read more)

Operation Epsilon at Central Square Theatre

Ironies abound in this drama based on real military eavesdropping by playwright Alan Brody, professor of theater arts at MIT and co-director of Catalyst Collaborative @MIT, a science-meets-theater collaboration between Central Square Theater and MIT. (read more)

The Boston Ballet’s “All Kylian”

The Boston Ballet’s current show, “All Kylián,” features three acts that combine ballet with modern dance and performance art. Every dance reinterprets and expands on the one before it, all with an obvious visual signature of the acclaimed choreographer for whom the show is named, Jiri Kylián. (read more)

ArtsEmerson presents Carlo Goldoni’s Servant of Two Masters

The Yale Repertory Theatre's production of "The Servant of Two Masters," a presentation of ArtsEmerson, is showing now at The Paramount Theater. (read more)

The Mountaintop at the Central Square Theater

The Underground railway Theater's production of Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," is showing at Central Square theater until February 2. (read more)

Company One presents Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

It was a dark play, set as it was in the war-torn, 2003 Baghdad of “shock and awe.” But it was lighted with a humor that cast facets of color into the darkness while absorbing darkness into itself. This was a delicate balance, and it worked for me, except in rare moments. (read more)

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Coriolanus” at Boston Common

Shakespeare, with the eye-to-posterity of a universal genius, has clothed the Romans and the Volscians in modern battle dress — the Romans much spiffier. The skies clatter with helicopters, the trenches with machine guns and rocket launchers. (read more)

F.U.D.G.E. at the Arsenal Center for the Arts

The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company has struck again! This time with a rousing production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice classic musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” The passions of greed, jealousy, despair, hatred, hypocrisy, overweening pride etc. are universal and in this production, all dance and song, illustrated with verve and ensemble precision. (read more)

Free, Creative, Interactive. The FIGMENT Festival is coming to Boston.

Describing the FIGMENT festival, Brad Cohen of Arts and Architecture writes “Everything is meant to be played with.” Join artscope's Barbara Bausch at the FIGMENT Festival on Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at the Rose Kennedy Greenway for an exciting, creative and interactive experience... (read more)

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by August Wilson at the BU Theatre

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” currently on stage at the BU Theatre, is a volatile brew of sex and danger, exploitation, oppression, death and the devil. (read more)