Mark your calendars! The Central Square Cinema and team behind "Remembering H.M." have planned a remarkable series of events to address the history and impact of H.M.'s story on our understanding of human memory. Tickets to the play are now available! All events are at the Central Square Theater, located at 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 Saturday, …
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The M.I.T. Media Lab attracts people whose quirky passions and eclectic skill make them misfits in traditional academic departments. Founding director Nicholas Negroponte likes to call the lab a salon de refusés, a roomful of rejects. One such refusé was Ben Bloomberg, an undergraduate who loves pop music and entertainment technology. In the current issue of …
Just when we thought the Chicago coverage was finished, we came across these two thoughtful and thorough blog posts: MAL Music - Death and the Powers "This is one of those posts that makes it difficult for me not to just hit caps lock and begin effusing unintelligibly about how wonderful this show I saw …
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David Patrick Stearns, the classical music critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, has written a thoughtful review of Death and the Powers and another new work, a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, directed by Slumdog Millionaire Oscar winner Danny Boyle for the National Theater of Great Britain. The two works are linked thematically ("the desire …
Death and the Powers is gearing up for its run with the Chicago Opera Theater, and creative director and composer Tod Machover is running around town for a non-stop series of interviews. COT has posted press blurbs from the Boston run. We're doing our best to keep up! We'll be collecting this week's media coverage …
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We thought you'd enjoy these gorgeous photos taken during rehearsals in Boston for Death and the Powers by Matt Checkowski... Chandelier and speakers at Cutler Majestic Robots, chandelier and walls Climbing the walls during rehearsal Memory Download Operabots in rehearsal
We caught up with Charlie Christos, a singer-songwriter who performs in the on-stage band for Prometheus Bound. This brand-new incarnation of Aeschylus's ancient tragedy recast as a rock show is currently playing at the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon in Cambridge. It was directed by Death and the Powers' Diane Paulus, with a fresh, lean …
Here's an in-depth interview on Boston's WGBH with Death and the Powers director Diane Paulus. She also speaks about her work on the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Hair and the immersive rock musical Prometheus Bound, currently at Club Oberon in Cambridge. We haven't had a chance to hear much directly from Diane (little wonder, she …
Journalist Chris Dahlen hung out in the Cutler Majestic Theater during rehearsals of Death and the Powers last August, just before the set was shipped off to Monaco for the opera's world premiere. His story in the current Boston Phoenix reports in detail on the numerous technological innovations in the opera. It's an entertaining account …
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