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The one-act play, which clocks in at 70 minutes, was first produced in traditional theaters, but the troupe has since performed it in rock clubs and bars. “As soon as we put it in a bar, where people were drinking and hooting and hollering, it really came to life,’’ says Malloy.
This epic poem has been converted for a theater audience and has also been given a twist.
Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan’s play “All the Way,” about the first year of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s presidency, will open the American Repertory Theater’s 2013-14 season in September. Bill Rauch, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which premiered the play last summer, will direct.
Matthew Aucoin has been recently commissioned to write an opera for The National Civil War Project.
Community playwriting program links children with A.R.T. staff.
The American Repertory Theater and Harvard University are among four universities and five performing arts organizations — all of them in former Union or Confederate territory — teaming up for an ambitious project inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
The National Civil War Project is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the war (1861-65) by developing 12 new theatrical works about, or inspired by, the conflict, as well as scholarly and public presentations and student projects.
Memory may be a torturer in “The Glass Menagerie.” But every so often, as this glorious production allows, it lights up the darkness like a divine benediction.
That sense of passion for the work and the community is what fuels the fire at A.R.T. Artists from around the world flock to the theater with the intention of taking chances, and if Broadway comes, that’s just icing on the cake.
When each of the Wingfields steps to the front of the stage to stare out into the void, you shudder; not so much because you know how the story ends, but rather because it can end no other way.
