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Richard Nelson's big deal

In cool Pursuit
While it's seemingly becoming commonplace for one musician to play 13 different parts or instruments on a studio album, it's getting pretty rare to hear an album featuring 13 musicians all playing at the same time.
By SAM PFEIFLE | June 08, 2011

Portland Music News: May 8, 2009

Sibilance
The weekend of May 23 is shaping up to be an important one in the local-music continuum.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 06, 2009

Buffalo’d Bard

This West doesn’t win the East
It’s nifty that Boston has snagged the world premiere of Richard Nelson’s new play, How Shakespeare Won the West , which opens the season at the Huntington.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 17, 2008

New blood

ART and the Huntington (and Boston theater) get a youth transfusion
The famously adventurous American Repertory Theatre is soon to be taken over by a woman who spent her summer directing . . . the vintage Broadway hits Kiss Me, Kate and Hair ?
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 10, 2008

Fall on the boards

From A Chorus Line to Tennessee Williams and the Grinch
There are tours to the former Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Iraq, the Aran Islands, and even the Underworld on area stages this fall.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 11, 2008

Some mid-winter jazz

Steve Grover heats up again, Between Now and After
In the cyclical, here-and-gone-again jazz world of Maine, it seems that maybe things are on-again.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 16, 2008

Home fires

The Cherry Orchard; Brontë; Sailing Down the Amazon and Haiku
There’s not a samovar in sight, and American playwright Richard Nelson has sharpened and pared down the script.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 17, 2007

Rethinking Chekhov

The Huntington steps into The Cherry Orchard
Conventional wisdom and introductory drama classes describe Anton Chekhov’s final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard , as a prescient statement about his country’s future, written in 1903 as the playwright was dying.
By IRIS FANGER | December 28, 2006

A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 28, 2006