Theater News
2008
From MIT Engineer, Acting,
and Hazardous Waste all in a Day's Work for MIT Alumna Helen McCreery
(May 1, 2008)
Feynman play 'QED' to be performed starting April 30
(News Office 4/25/2008 | Tech Talk 4/30/2008)
CC@MIT to stage QED
(Press release, 3/24/2008)
Dramashop turns 80, two years after
celebrating its 50th season. (But who's counting?)
(Technology Review, Jan-Feb 2008)
2007
Dramashop's One-Act plays delight audience
(The Tech, 11/20/2007)
CC@MIT -- MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged reading of 'The Water Engine' Dec. 3-4
(Press release 10/30/2007)
Nappy Grooves to visit
(Tech Talk 10/24/2007)
UK students stage Shakespeare Sept. 18-20
(News Office 9/18/2007, Tech Talk 9/19/2007)
2007 Art Awards
(Tech Talk 6/6/2007)
2007 Awards Convocation (includes image
of Wiesner Award winner Hope Ginsburg receiving Schnitzer Prize)
(Tech Talk 6/6/2007)
Arts awards honor student musicians and actors
(Tech Talk, 5/16/2007)
A bit part for a 'bot: human-robot ensemble take stage in Playwrights
in Performance
(MIT home page spotlight, 5/11/2007)
Central Square breaks ground for new theater
(News Office, 5/4/2007)
'Einstein's Dreams' opens at
Broad Institute auditorium
(Tech Talk, 4/11/2007)
MIT professors put on performances at Boston's
new ICA
(MIT Home Page News Spotlight, 3/22/2007)
In Scheib's 'Desert,' love goes all wrong
(Tech Talk 3/21/2007)
MIT and
Underground Railway Theater, in association with the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival, present
'Einstein's Dreams' April 19-29
(Press release 3/19/2007)
Panel reviews four centuries of remixing the bard
(News Office 2/23/2007 | Tech Talk 2/28/2007)
'N (Bonaparte)' is third in
Laura Harrington's war trilogy
(News Office 2/23/2007 | Tech Talk 2/28/2007)
Black experience dramatized by Suzan-Lori
Parks Feb. 15-17; Playwright to speak on her craft Feb. 21
(News Office 2/15/2007)
Interdisciplinary artist/writer Coco Fusco
to visit & speak at MIT
(Press release 2/12/2007
A Conversation with
Suzan-Lori Parks Feb 21, 7pm and MIT Dramashop presents of Parks' Obie-winning play, "Imperceptible Mutabilities in
the Third Kingdom" Feb 8-10 and Feb 15-17
(Press release 1/11/2007)
2006
Math major pursues
theatrical career (Sameera Iyengar '93)
(Technology Review Nov-Dec 2006 | MIT Alumni Association News)
AMPS videographer, former Zoom cast member,
will give IAP talk, 'Zoom--Lost and Found'
(Tech Talk 12/13/2006)
DeFrantz's 'Queer Theory'
builds musical bridges
(Tech Talk 11/21/2006)
Science meets
the human spirit in reading of 'On Ego'
(Tech Talk 11/15/2006)
Dramashop presents trio of one-acts
(Tech Talk 11/15/2006)
MIT & Underground Railway
Theater (CC@MIT) present 'On Ego'
(Press release 11/2/2006)
Comedian Margaret Cho will host 'Fierce Forever')
(Tech Talk 10/18/2006)
Suzan-Lori
Parks selected by MIT to receive $70K McDermott Award for innovation in the arts
(Press release 9/19/2006)
DeFrantz musical
picked for NY Musical Festival
(News Office 7/18/2006)
New work by
MIT's Thomas DeFrantz chosen for New York Musical Theatre Festival
(Press release 7/17/2006)
Grads taking
Dramashop on UK tour
(News Office 6/5/2006 | Tech Talk 6/7/2006)
Staged
reading portrays math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan ("Partition" CC&MIT)
(Tech Talk 5/3/2006)
MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged reading of "Partition" May 15 & 16
(Press release 4/4/2006)
Theater class gets
a bit technical
(Tech Talk 3/22/2006)
Cabaret star brings a
little 'Broadway' to Kresge (Darius de Haas)
(Tech Talk, 3/15/2006)
Broadway
star Darius de Haas to perform/speak at MIT
(Press release 3/10/2006)
Science and art merge
in 'Einstein's Dreams'
(Tech Talk, 3/8/2006)
Alumna Aomawa
Shields' show asks theatrical 'Where To?'
(Tech Talk, 2/15/2006)
Visiting artist Hafler
directs 'The Old Law'
(Tech Talk, 2/8/2006)
MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged
reading of 'Einstein's Dreams' March 13 & 14
(Press release 2/6/2006)
Sala becomes
'Urinetown' in MTG production
(News Office, 2/1/2006)
ArtNews (Golan
Levin, Martin Marks, Brian Robison, Evan Ziporyn, Peter Child, Resonance, Rodney Brooks)
(News Office, 1/23/06)
2005
Awards & Honors:
Alan Brody ("Housewives of Mannheim")
(Tech Talk, 12/21/2005)
Theatrical alums
celebrate Dramashop's 50th anniversary
(Tech Talk, 11/30/2005)
Dramashop
presents 'Leocadia' (Photo caption)
(Tech Talk, 11/16/2005)
ArtNews:
Help make 'Splash' with theater sub-program
(Tech Talk, 11/16/2005)
Musical Theatre Guild
strikes back with 'Star Wars' spoof
(Tech Talk, 11/9/2005)
'Star Wars'
with catchy tunes (song excerpts)
(Tech Talk, 11/9/2005)
Alumnus Carlos Armesto wins theater award
(Tech Talk, 11/2/2005)
ArtNews:
Dan Liston in "Spring Chicken or When I Flew the Coop"
(Tech Talk 10/5/2005)
ArtNews: Lecturers work on play (Laura Harrington, Kim Mancuso)
(Tech Talk 9/21/2005)
Matt Damon/MIT star in Central Square Theater benefit
(MIT News Office, 6/27/2005)
Awards & Honors (Stephen Benton, Thomas DeFrantz)
(Tech Talk 6/8/2005)
Student art awards presented
(Tech Talk 6/1/2005)
Uncut Student Art Awards story
(submitted to Tech Talk but did not run 6/1/2005)
ArtNews (Albert Chan)
(Tech Talk 5/18/2005)
Art, technology
links explored in faculty symposium
(Tech Talk 5/11/2005)
Symposium to explore art, technology
(Tech Talk 4/27/2005)
Dramashop heads 'Downtown'
(Tech Talk 4/13/2005)
ArtNews (Kortney Adams, Magda Fernandez, Julie Moir Messervy
(Tech Talk 4/6/2005)
ArtNews
(Beth Coleman, Thomas DeFrantz, John Harbison)
(Tech Talk 3/16/2005)
DeFrantz taps into Monk with high-tech storytelling
(Tech Talk 3/9/2005)
Junior Daniel Kanamori drafted
for basketball flick
(Tech Talk 3/9/2005)
Week of cultural celebration planned for MIT
(Tech Talk 3/2/2005)
MTG Goes Rock-and-Roll Campy with 'Tommy'
(Tech Talk 1/26/2005)
ArtNews (Laura Harrington, Charles Shadle)
(Submitted but not used, Tech Talk 1/12/2005)
2004
IAP Offers Arts Smorgasbord
(Tech Talk 12/15/2004)
ArtNews (Kortney Adams, Robert J. Lang, origami)
(Tech Talk 11/17/2004)
Scheib's Adaptation of Chekhov's 'Platonov' Premieres at MIT
(Tech Talk 11/3/2004)
Brody's Play Explores Isaac Newton
(Tech Talk 9/29/2004)
Producer/Writer/Director Angus Gibson to Visit MIT
(Press release 9/27/2004)
Profs' History Show Gets
Broadway Performance
(Tech Talk 9/15/2004)
ArtNews (Christopher
Adler, Liz Baraff, Thomas DeFrantz, Mike King, John Osorio-Buck,
Amy Sanford)
(Tech Talk 9/15/2004)
MIT Has Its Share of Pioneering Newlyweds (Bill Fregosi)
(Tech Talk 6/9/2004)
Arts Awards: Awards Convocation; Music and Theater Arts; Other Awards
(Tech Talk 6/2/2004)
Graduating Students Look Back on Experiences (James Dai)
{Tech Talk 6/2/2004)
Faculty Members Awarded Tenure (Thomas DeFrantz - theater, Helen Lee - writing)
(Tech Talk 6/2/2004)
ArtNews (Carrie Bodle, Kryzysztof Wodiczk, Vladimir Zelevinsky)
(Tech Talk 5/19/2004)
Dramashop Stages Scheib Adaptation of Tolstoy Play
(Tech Talk 4/7/2004)
Students Put on New Version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Thespis'
(Tech Talk 4/7/2004)
DeFrantz Directs Experimental Work 'Ennoblling Nonna'
(Tech Talk 3/10/2004)
African-American Museum Comes to Life
(Tech Talk 2/25/2004)
Art News (Alan Brody, Joan Jonas)
(Tech Talk 2/25/2004)
Art News (Thomas DeFrantz, John Harbison, Patricia Powell, George Ruckert, Elena Ruehr, Evan Ziporyn)
(Tech Talk 2/11/2004)
Yiddish 'Angels' Restore Theater Tradition
(Tech Talk 2/4/2004)
2003
Awards and Honors (Thomas DeFrantz)
(Tech Talk 11/19/2003)
ArtNews (John Nikolai, Jay Scheib)
(Tech Talk 11/5/2003)
Cho Brings 'Revolution' Tour to Campus
(Tech Talk 10/1/2003)
ArtNews (John Harbison, MIT Club of Boston, Patrick Wang)
(Tech Talk 10/1/2003)
The British are Coming
(Tech Talk 9/24/2003)
ArtNews, (Seth Bisen-Hersh, Woody Pak)
(Tech Talk 9/10/2003)
ArtNews (DeFrantz)
(Cut from Tech Talk 8/27/2003)
Theaters Collaborate With MIT on New Cambridge Home
(Press Release, 6/16/2003)
Art Awards: Uncut
(as submitted for Tech Talk before editing, 6/4/2003)
Arts Awards
(as published in Tech Talk 6/4/2003)
Marks Awarded 'Golden Key to Rinaldi'
(Submitted for Tech Talk 6/4/2003 but did not run)
ArtNews (David Deveau, John Harbison, Michael Mack)
(Tech Talk 5/14/2003)
Awards & Honors (Karen Perlow)
(Tech Talk 4/16/2003)
MIT Graduate Makes Television Acting Debut 'stat'
(Tech Talk 4/9/2003)
ArtNews (Alan Brody, Paulo Perira, Vladimir Zelevinsky)
(Tech Talk 4/9/2003)
ArtNews (Thomas DeFrantz, Michael Hawley, Rebecca Hurwitz, Christopher Newell, Ming Zhang)
(Tech Talk 4/2/2003)
Shakespeare Ensemble Presents 'Antony and Cleopatra'
(Tech Talk 3/12/2003)
Burrows Gives One-Woman Show Honoring Actress
(Tech Talk 2/26/2003)
Dramashop stages 'Hamlets'
(Tech Talk 2/5/2003)
Finally, A Reason To Stay Awake in 10-250: Richard Feynman Comes to Life in QED
(The Tech 2/4/2003)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Rancatore
(The Tech ice cream review 2/4/2003)
'QED' Performance Thursday
(Tech Talk 1/28/2003)
Richard Feynman Fest at MIT to Feature Staged Reading of “Q.E.D.,” Discussion
(Press release January 9, 2003)
Play about Feynman will Have MIT Reading
(Tech Talk 1/8/2003)
2002
In the Beginning...MIT Artists Speak on Personal Inspiration
(Tech Talk 12/18/2002)
Students Revel in Performing a Gilbert and Sullivan Favorite
(Tech Talk 11/20/2002)
ArtNews (Dance Theater Ensemble, Monica Gomi, Michael Hawley, Brian Robison, Gus Solomons jr)
(Unpublished in Tech Talk 11/20/2002)
Council for the Arts to Present Awards to Burrows and Brody
(Tech Talk 10/23/2002)
Activist/Actress/Writer Vinie Burrows to Receive McDermott Award from MIT
(Press release October 11, 2002)
ArtNews (Elizabeth Jochum)
(Tech Talk 9/11/2002)
'Assassins' Photo Captions
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 9/11/2002)
MIT Hosts Sypmosium on "Copenhagen"
(Press release April 17, 2002)
ArtNews (Seth Bisen-Hersh, Cemocan Yesil)
(Tech Talk 8/14/2002)
ArtNews (Elizabeth Jochum)
(Tech Talk 7/17/2002)
Theater Alumni Return to MIT Stage to Play a Set of Scenes
(Tech Talk 6/12/2002)
Returning Alumni Form Weekend Company
(Tech Talk 6/12/2002)
Student Art Awards Presented
(Tech Talk 6/5/2002)
'Copenhagen' Symposium Transcript
'Copenhagen' Discussion Draws Overflow Crowd in Rainstorm
(News Office story 5/15/2002)
MIT Hosts 'Copenhagen' Symposium
(Tech Talk 5/8/2002)
ArtNews (Christopher Crowley, Kermit Dunkelberg, Monica Gomi, Kim Mancuso, Isaura Oliveira, Josh Randall, Vladimir Zelevinsky)
(Tech Talk 4/10/2002)
Italian Theater Director Visits MIT
(Tech Talk 3/6/2002)
Students Stage 'Vagina Monologues'
(Tech Talk 2/13/2002)
Dramashop Stages 'Seachange'
(Tech Talk 2/13/2002)
ArtNews, (Laura Harrington, Kelly Heaton, Teresa Marrin Nakra)
(Tech Talk 2/13/2002)
2001
Shakespeare Ensemble Goes Extra-curricular with "As You Like It"
(Tech Talk 11/7/2001)
Playwright/director Moises Kaufman to give free talk at MIT--Oct 4
(August 29, 2001)
ArtNews (Joe Davis, Arthur Ganson, Laura Harrington, Kelly Heaton)
(Tech Talk 6/13/2001)
ArtNews (Festival Jazz Ensemble Combo, Thomas DeFrantz, Nathan Fitzgerald, Michael Kaiser, Tom Lada, Thomas Lieberman, Chris Rakowski, Tom Scharfeld)
(Tech Talk 6/6/2001)
Student Art Awards Presented
(Tech Talk 6/6/2001)
ArtNews (Alexander Calder's Great Sail, Alice Cox, Vernon Ingram, Teresa Huang, Daniel Kamalic)
(Tech Talk 5/23/2001)
ArtNews (Kurt Lancaster, Anand Sarwate, Annemarie Sheets)
(Tech Talk 5/16/2001)
Grand Duke Celebrates his 100th MIT Birthday
(Tech Talk 5/2/2001)
Arts Awards and Honors (Laura Harrington)
(Tech Talk 4/25/2001)
ArtNews (Charles Armesto, William Cutter, Mark Harvey, Changhuei Yang)
(Tech Talk 3/21/2001)
Awards & Honors (Thomas DeFrantz)
(Tech Talk 3/21/2001)
Shakespeare Ensemble presents The Rover
(Tech Talk 3/14/2001)
'Tres Vidas' to Premiere at MIT
(Tech Talk 3/7/2001 -- Not published because of Tech Talk storm delay)
Janet Sonenberg one of 6 Newly-Named MacVicar Fellows
(Tech Talk 3/7/2001)
ArtNews (Charles Armesto)
(Tech Talk 3/7/2001)
ArtTalk: MIT Costume Designer Dresses for Success
(Tech Talk 2/7/2001)
Acting Professionally: Student lands role at MIT
(Spectrum, Winter 2001)
2000
Defrantz Poses Musical 'Queery'
(Tech Talk 12/13/2000)
ArtNews (List Visual Arts Center, Martin Marks, Grace Napier)
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 12/13/2000)
'Richard III' Presented by Shakespeare Ensemble
(Tech Talk 11/8/2000)
ArtNews (John Harbison, Laura Harrington, Martin Marks, MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players)
(Tech Talk 10/25/2000)
'Highlights From Musicals' at MIT Goes Up Sept 27 and Sept 29
(Tech Talk 9/27/2000)
Student Excursion Series Kicks Off with Mamet
(Tech Talk 9/20/2000)
ArtNews (List Visual Arts Center, Patrick Wang)
(Tech Talk 8/23/2000)
Artists Behind the Desk Summer Series Begins
(Tech Talk 8/9/2000)
ArtNews (Alan Brody, Martin Marks, Patricia-Marie Weinmann)
(Tech Talk 8/9/2000)
ArtNews (Alan Brody, Cambridge First Day, Patricia-Marie Weinmann)
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 7/12/2000)
Alum Pens Musical Set at MIT
(Tech Talk 6/7/2000)
ArtNews (Dante Anzolini, Brenda Cotto-Escalera, David Deveau, Laura Harrington, MIT Symphony Orchestra, Elena Ruehr)
(Tech Talk 5/31/2000)
Students Win Prizes in Writing Competition
(Tech Talk 5/31/2000)
Student Art Awards Presented
(Tech Talk 5/31/2000)
Split Britches Appear at MIT
(Tech Talk 4/5/2000)
ArtNews (Stefan Agamanolis, Charles Armesto, Barbara Barry, Brian Bradley, Alan Brody, Chorallaries of MIT, Joe Cirello, Glorianna Davenport, Laura Harrington, Fred Harris, Media Lab, MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Amy Schonsheck)
(Tech Talk 4/5/2000)
ArtNews (Andrew Chen, Peter Child, Dramashop, Ethnographic Museum of Irrelevant Races, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, John Harbison, James Makubuya, Marcus Thompson)
(Tech Talk 2/16/2000)
IAP Notebook: Students Become an Art Installation Depicting Race/Gender Experiences
(Tech Talk 2/2/2000)
ArtNews (Corporal Politics, John Harbison, Erika Hartwieg, List Visual Arts Center, Meanwhile the Girls Were Playing, Michael Rakowitz, Ryan Yu)
(Tech Talk 1/26/2000)
ArtNews (Laura Harrington)
(Tech Talk 1/12/2000)
1999
Gómez-Peña to Present 1999 Abramowitz Lecture
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 10/27/1999)
MIT Playwright Reads from Civil War Comedy
(Tech Talk 10/20/1999)
ArtTalk: Student Playwright Marks World Premiere
(Tech Talk 9/15/1999)
Stage Fright: Little Shop photo caption
(Tech Talk 9/15/1999)
Students' Arts Achievements Noted
(Tech Talk 6/2/1999)
ArtQuote: Lin-Ann Ching
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 6/2/1999)
ArtNews (Peter Child, Chorallaries, Chris Janney, MIT Muses, MIT Museum, Grace Napier, Woody Pak, Edward Baron Turk, Krzysztof Wodiczko)
(Tech Talk 3/10/1999)
ArtNews (Thomas DeFrantz)
(Tech Talk 2/10/1999)
1998
Members of Urban Bush Women in Residence
(Tech Talk 10/28/1998)
Wu Wei Theater Company Visits MIT
(Tech Talk 10/21/1998)
ArtNews (Charles Correa, Compton Gallery, Laura Harrington)
(Tech Talk 10/21/1998)
ArtNews (Pinhanez, Chung, Folkdance Club)
(Tech Talk 9/23/1998)
Fall Visiting Artists Announced
(Tech Talk 9/16/1998)
ArtNews (Mark Bain, Chris Crowley, Kermit Dunkelberg, Monica Gomi, Charlie Korsmo, Kim Mancuso)
(Tech Talk 8/12/1998)
1998 Arts Awards
(Tech Talk 6/3/1998)
ArtNews (List Visual Arts Center, Eto Otitigbe, Myles Crowley, Thomas Consi, Sarah Cohen, Kristin Nummerdor, Eddie Kohler, Michael Kreutz, Charlotte Peed)
(Tech Talk 5/13/1998)
Season Ends with Theatrical Bonanza (Community Players, Playwrights in Performance, Plush Daddy Fly)
(Tech Talk 5/6/1998)
Tina Packer Presents Women of Will
(Tech Talk 4/8/1998)
ArtNews Off-Campus (Pereira & Armesto, Brody, Roadkill Buffet, MIT Symphony Orchestra, Gamelan Galak Tika)
(Tech Talk 3/18/1998)
DeFrantz Puts Dramatic Mark on MIT
(Tech Talk 2/11/1998)
ArtNews (Harrington, Machover, Child, Marks, Brody, Gamble & Wenyon)
(Tech Talk 2/4/1998)
1997
ArtNews (Ruckert, Brody, Rife)
(Submitted but did not run, Tech Talk 12/17/1997)
ArtNews (Cotto- Escalera, Harvey, Ziporyn, Technique)
(Tech Talk 12/10/1997)
Shakespeare Ensemble Stages 'Fuenteovejuna'
(Tech Talk 11/12/1997)
Computer Graphics Character Stars in 'It/I'
(Tech Talk 11/12/1997)
ArtNews (Packer, Gamelan Galak Tika, Frankel, Taho)
(Tech Talk 10/22/1997)
Theater Art News: Tina Packer, Musical Theatre Guild
(Tech Talk 9/10/1997)
Students Explore Puppetry and Politics in Vermont
(Tech Talk 6/11/1997)
Theater Art News: Brody
(Tech Talk 6/4/1997)
Art Awards 1997
(Tech Talk 6/4/1997)
Hamlet's Back in Elsinore: Fortinbras plays May 22-24
(Tech Talk 5/21/1997)
Theater ArtNews: Andrew Kraft
(Tech Talk 5/7/1997)
Dramashop Gets 'Down & Dirty' April 24-26, May 1-3
(Tech Talk 4/16/1997)
Sci-fi Musicals Mirror Life at MIT (Weird Romance)
(Tech Talk 4/9/1997)
Award-Winning Director Kenny Leon Offers Dramatic Advice
(Tech Talk 3/19/1997)
Tina Packer Directs 'King John'
(Tech Talk 3/12/1997)
ArtNews: Musical Theatre Guild
(Tech Talk 3/5/1997)
Dramashop Presents Updated 'Ado'
(Tech Talk 2/5/1997)
1996
ArtRaves Dec 96
(Tech Talk 12/11/1996)
'HMS Pinafore' Stars Freshman Film Star
(Tech Talk 11/20/1996)
George Takei to be artist-in-residence at MIT
(Tech Talk 10/9/1996)
Star Date 10.21.96: George Takei coming to campus
(Tech Talk 9/18/1996)
Community Players Produce One-Acts
(Tech Talk 7/24/1996)
1996 Achievements in the Arts Recognized: Pierson, Acuna, Morrow, Gomi, Stoehr, Gaucher, Shi, Tistaert
(Tech Talk 6/5/1996)
Alumna Directs 'Bright Room Called Day'
(Tech Talk 5/22/1996)
Shakespeare & Co. Coming to MIT
(Tech Talk 5/15/1996)
Groups Produce 'Tempest' With a Twist
(Tech Talk 3/13/1996)
Sonenberg Directs 'Escape from Happiness'
(Tech Talk 2/7/1996)
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