How does a Needham-raised playwright, actor and director manage to create a show that not only spoofs the mega-hit “Hamilton” but also the entire Broadway industry itself?
The answer is simple. Gerard Alessandrini’s musical, “Spamilton: An American Parody,” combines...
A range of artists represented Africa and its diaspora in Blackman Auditorium on Saturday night at the Northeastern African Student Organization’s, or NASO’s, Ikemba Africa Night 2019. Ikemba is an Igbo word meaning “strength of the people.”
Ghanaian entertainer Ebaby...
Guy Ovadia, news correspondent
• February 19, 2019
The “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” exhibition in Gallery 360 is a journey through the black experience in America. It emphasizes the characteristics of African American history, conveys the state of contemporary...
On Sunday, CBS aired the 61st annual Grammy Awards with a lineup including Diana Ross, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Smokey Robinson, Kacey Musgraves and many more, with Alicia Keys hosting.
“I was really rooting for Lady Gaga,” said Anna Rychlik, a second-year business...
Members and guests gathered in Shillman Hall on Thursday for the student-led design studio Scout’s first panel on impostor syndrome, titled “Fake It Till You Make It.”
Scout marketing and events director Camaryn McKenzie introduced the event with a short video a former...
Ali Dusinberre, deputy lifestyle editor
• February 14, 2019
Thursday, Feb. 14, Screening of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Part of PBS’s American Masters series, the new documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” takes an original in-depth look at Hansberry’s complex life. Hansberry was the first black female...
Lucy Hoffman, news correspondent
• February 13, 2019
Anyone entering the Central Square Theater to see Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” with expectations of Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison singing and walking off into the sunshine together is in for a surprise.
“Pygmalion” is the original play by George Bernard Shaw that was adapted...
Ali Dusinberre, deputy lifestyle editor
• February 7, 2019
Thursday, Feb. 7, Sundance Film Festival Shorts
The Institute of Contemporary Art will showcase highlights from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This 91-minute program features seven selections including fiction, documentary and animation from around the globe. Experience...
Riana Buchman, news correspondent
• February 6, 2019
Under dimmed lights at Trident Booksellers & Cafe, New England historical fantasy authors read excerpts from their novels for a handful of attendees on the second floor of the bookstore Thursday night.
The event was a combined networking event and reading series run by...
What is democracy?
Filmmaker, writer and activist Astra Taylor asks this fundamental question in her documentary observing Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “The Allegory of Good and Bad Government” in Siena, Italy. In the 1338 fresco, which depicts a tyrannical government, there...
