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808 Gallery Showcases Work of 39 CFA Seniors
Walking past the floor to ceiling windows at the 808 Gallery, a striking silhouette catches the eye. A female figure delicately clad in a mass of haunting white fabric is suspended upside down,...
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Three CFA Grads Receive 2014 Kahn Awards
Except for her hands, Beth Willer is nearly motionless, back to the audience, a quiet presence in the midst of swirling, ethereal sound. But her hands, as she conducts the Lorelei Ensemble, are in...
View ArticleTHATCamp: an “Unconference” Comes to BU
Who says classicists are stuck in the past? Humanities scholars and librarians from around New England will come together tomorrow and Saturday to explore how technology fosters better understanding of...
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BU Playwrights Triumph at Kennedy Center Festival
Stephanie Brownell was out walking in the wake of a huge snowstorm in winter 2013, trying to come up with an idea for a 10-minute play, assigned as part of the new master’s in playwriting program at...
View ArticlePattern of Life: Lives Linked by Drone Attack
Walt McGough, a playwright with a boundless imagination, has conjured compelling drama from space alien houseguests and deranged spies. Pattern of Life, a new play by McGough (GRS’12), links the lives...
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808 Gallery Hosts Undergraduate Showcase
BU’s 808 Gallery is known for mounting shows that emphasize versatility. It’s not unusual to see an extensive array of graphic designs on a back wall, paintings on another, and sculptural installations...
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Interactive BU Arts Crawl Returns Today
An exhibition of World War I propaganda posters. Live improvised jazz music. A reading of original fiction and poetry. A series of 10-minute plays. A nighttime performance of Macbeth. Not a bad way to...
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A Haunting View of Suburbia
American suburbia has long captivated the imagination of writers, filmmakers, and artists. But few have managed to capture its isolation and anonymity better than photographer Todd Hido, whose work is...
View ArticleDark Comedy Kicks Off CFA Fringe Festival
As a College of Fine Arts theater arts student, Ben Ducoff (CFA’15) was exposed to a lot of writing about race in America, but he engaged in very little open discussion about an issue he refers to as...
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Be Seduced: CFA Stages Carmen
Georges Bizet’s lusty opera Carmen has been seducing audiences for nearly a century and a half. With a captivating score and one of the most famous arias ever written—the irresistible “Habanera”—Carmen...
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Commemorating the Fall of the Berlin Wall
When the Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic erected the Berlin Wall in 1961 to cut off East Berlin and East Germany from West Berlin and thus the free world, it became the most potent...
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Remembering the First World War
BU’s illuminating new exhibition Ardent for Some Desperate Glory: Remembering the First World War recalls the patriotism, sacrifice, and loss that marked World War I. The Howard Gotlieb Archival...
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808 Gallery Hosts Alumni Show
As you tour the new exhibit at BU’s 808 Gallery, it quickly becomes apparent why it’s been titled Convergence. This big, ambitious show brings together the work of alumni from all over the world whose...
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Masterpieces of Menace, Regret
The last time Sidney Friedman performed on stage, he says, “Alexander was king.” But the College of Fine Arts adjunct professor, who at 75 has directed more than 90 plays during his career, gladly...
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CFA Presents Britten’s War Requiem
Juxtaposing the incisive antiwar verse of English World War I poet and soldier Wilfred Owen with Latin text from the Catholic requiem Mass, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, first performed in 1962,...
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Six Women Who Broke New Ground
The turn of the 19th century was a time of change in Boston. There was the rise of industrialization and immigration, the women’s suffrage movement, Progressivism, and improved public transit. Boston’s...
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Musicians Mix Classical Music and Social Awareness
Ask most college students today about classical music and they’re likely to mention names like Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach. Few would picture a group of classically trained string musicians performing...
View ArticleThe Vibrator Play Is Stimulating, Provocative
Sarah Ruhl’s acclaimed In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, which revolves around the reverberations, physical and emotional, of the late-19th-century use of electrical gizmos to treat female...
View ArticleA Musical Odyssey of World War II
William Saroyan’s coming-of-age novel The Human Comedy was published in 1943, a year when America was sending its sons overseas to fight in World War II and the telegram was becoming grimly synonymous...
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Meet Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Act I, Scene I: A wilting country estate. Vanya and his morbidly depressed sister Sonia rail against this dull, pointless life and a world not worth venturing out of the house for. Hilarity ensues. You...
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