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Peter Gomes on the Colbert Report
If you’ve already seen Let Me Down Easy you’ll know that one of the characters portrayed by Anna Deavere Smith is Peter Gomes, the Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church. Peter appear… more →
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Peter Gomes on the Colbert Report
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve already seen Let Me Down Easy you’ll know that one of the characters portrayed … more →
Introducing The Seagull
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: Hungarian director János Szász has been a favorite with A.R.T. audiences since 2001, when he dazzled … more →
Introducing Aurélia’s Oratorio
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: One of my earliest and happiest memories as a child in London was our annual visit to the Cirque Ima … more →
Introducing The Communist Dracula Pageant
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: Anne Washburn is one of my favorite young American playwrights. In plays such as The Internationali … more →
Introducing Let Me Down Easy
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: Anna Deavere Smith needs little introduction to A.R.T. audiences; many of you probably remember her … more →
Introducing the 2008-09 season
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: Now that we have announced the A.R.T.’s 2008-09 season, and I wanted to share with you some of my th … more →
Cardenio in Motion
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: Last month the A.R.T. teamed up with the Humanities Center at Harvard to host a conversation between … more →
A conversation with Pieter-Dirk Uys
Gideon Lester wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve seen, or are planning to see, Elections and Erections, and would like to find out mo … more →
Taking Copenhagen to Harvard
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: Karen MacDonald, John Kuntz and I visited Peter Galison’s History of Science class at Harvard … more →
Introducing Cardenio
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Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt first gave us a copy of Cardenio several years ago. We’ve been lo … more →
Introducing Elections and Erections
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: Pieter-Dirk Uys needs no introduction to those of you who saw his political cabaret Foreign AIDS in … more →
Orpheus X and the Pulitzers
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday. The Drama prize went to a Boston playwright, David Lin … more →
Introducing Julius Caesar
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Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: I’m writing this on the train from New York, where I spent the weekend with Arthur Nauzyciel, the Fr … more →
Introducing No Child
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: It was Robert Woodruff who recommended that I should see No Child. I knew nothing about the show, an … more →
Introducing Copenhagen
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: I first saw Copenhagen in its premiere production at the National Theatre in London. I must admit I … more →
Introducing Donnie Darko
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: Marcus Stern’s last production at Zero Arrow was the phenomenally successful Onion Cellar, whi … more →
Introducing Don Juan Giovanni and Figaro
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Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: The season opens with another collaboration with our friends at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the highly … more →
Introducing the 07/08 Season
Gideon Lester wrote 2 years ago: As I hope you’ve seen, we’ve now announced the A.R.T.’s 2007-08 season. I’m … more →
Hell House
Gideon Lester wrote 3 years ago: I’m in New York and have just seen Hell House, the latest show by Les Freres Corbusier, one of … more →
