Fall is decidedly here, and to me, the cooler temps, falling leaves, and warm cups of tea mean snuggling up with so many good books! I just finished a book club favorite, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and am deep into Ken Follett’s Never—I can’t wait to hear more from Mr. Follett himself this Sunday, Nov. 14 at our Writers on a New England Stage event with NHPR!Read More
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Why is The Asphalt Jungle the mack daddy of all caper films? It’s co-written and directed by John Huston, who made the criminally good classics Key Largo and The Maltese Falcon. It’s based on a book by W.R. Burnett, who established his street cred with Little Caesar and High Sierra.Read More
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Seeing so many of you in the hall this fall for sold out shows affirms that the 2021-22 Season is off to a great start. Another sign of the new season is our new Playbill!Read More
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The honey-soaked hive of Film Noir Bad Girls is always buzzing with Queen Bee candidates. Barbara Stanwyck from Double Indemnity. Jane Greer from Out of the Past. Audrey Totter from, well, every pic Totter ever made. But for pure “Wait...what?!” shock value, few dames can rival the on- and off-screen tale of Gloria Grahame, whose boudoir eyes and va-va-va-voom figure rocked Hollywood.Read More
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“Never have I seen a performer plagued with such a chronic case of stage jitters. I’m sure she vomited before and after every scene. When the cameras stopped, she’d run headlong to her dressing room, lock herself in and cry. Those weren’t butterflies in her stomach. They were wasps.”
So wrote director Frank Capra of Jean Arthur, the woman he called “my favorite actress.” I discovered Jean in my teens while reading Capra’s autobiography, The Name Above the Title. Who was this appealing, neurotic star, so publicity-shy that she was dubbed the “American Garbo” by Movie Classic magazine in 1937?
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Join us on Sat., October 2 at 2pm for the Season Preview of Opera Connection with opera expert and writer-producer Dennis Neil Kleinman. Director of Institutional Advancement Gail VanHoy Carolan spoke with Dennis about the upcoming season, and because his answers were so beautiful, we’re breaking this interview up into two parts! (You can read part 1 here.)Read More
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