Category: Arts

  • AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-04-01 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every adult.” –Eric Bentley, Life of the Drama A Suggested Walk I…

  • What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON? The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-03-17 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama The…

  • Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep

  • Old Times There Are Not Forgotten The New York Times 2014-05-04 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep Some people are paralyzed by self-consciousness. The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is inspired, energized and perhaps even set free by it. You could say that he transforms self-consciousness into art, except then…

  • MISC Shows Fourth Annual Identity Project The Smith Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 2014-11-13 Nicole Wong ’17, Arts Editor The Identity Project is an annual photo exhibition in which students, faculty and staff of the Smith community are photographed and given the opportunity to define who they are in their own…

  • ‘Fourteen Frames’ aims to create discussions on race, identity The Daily Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2014-11-11 Shane McKeon, Reporter A group within Global Engagement Summit launched a Tumblr page and physical gallery profiling 14 Northwestern students and their experiences with race and identity. “Fourteen Frames” opened at Norris University Center on Nov. 5, the same day…

  • Ibeyi: “I feel like our father is looking over us” DIY Magazine London, United Kingdom 2014-11-11 Jamie Milton Photo: Emma Swann From ancient teachings to modern electronics, these French-Cuban twins bring a modern hybrid of pop. Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Díaz make up Ibeyi, two French-Cuban twins producing music with XL Recordings head honcho Richard Russell…

  • Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni stars in a one-woman show written by her and produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

  • Gillian Wearing redefines Birmingham for the 21st century The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-10-31 Bernadette McNulty, Music Editor and Arts Writer Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England and Ikon With her statue of a mixed-race, single-parent family, Gillian Wearing has transformed Birmingham’s city centre, says Bernadette…

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…