Needham Community Theater Live In Studio
Live Music Week happens bi-annually at WERS to raise money to keep our station running. We ask if you can pledge your support in order to keep us live on air, bringing you live performances from your favorite musicians. Pledges can be made here. The Needham Community Theater came into our studio wearing wide eyes [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Putnam Spelling Bee
As a new member of the WERS Standing Room Only family, I was so excited to get involved, listening to new show tunes and some of my all time favorites. However with the huge library of songs Standing Room Only has, I was shocked to find out that one of my favorite shows — The [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Auditions
I have been to a lot of auditions in my life. That tends to be the case for most actors since they say that for every one job you do get, there will be twenty five you do not. So the only way to ever work is to simply audition for everything, getting through the [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Violence on Stage
Before I get started with this article, I would like to say that I am in no way endorsing abuse, violence, or carnage of any kind. Unless it’s on stage, in which case BRING IT ON! This isn’t intended to be some sick violence-glorifying statement, or statement on the perpetual warlike nature of humankind, but [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Film Adaptation
Yesterday I had the pleasure of going to see a free screening of Matthew McConhaghy’s new (or rather re-released) film Killer Joe. I won’t get too much into the details of the film itself, it’s rated NC-17 and after seeing it I would never look at KFC or Pumpkin Pie the same way again. I [...]
Thoughts on Theater: The Burlesque
In Boston, we’re lucky enough to live in a community where the word “burlesque” means more than a despicable Christina Aguilera movie. A time-honored tradition dating back to the sixteenth century, burlesque is a blend of adult entertainment (ahem) with the classy feel and dress of a theater to make for a night of performance [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Ethel Merman
As far as classic Broadway performers go, Ethel Merman is not an unfamiliar name. A Broadway regular since the 1930s, Merman originated such iconic roles as Reno in Anything Goes, Annie in Annie Get Your Gun, and Mama Rose in Gypsy. She was featured in over fifteen Broadway productions and eighteen films throughout her life, [...]
Thoughts on Theater: The Gypsy Robe
Theater is known for its wide variety of colorful superstitious traditions: never uttering the title of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’; replacing ‘Good luck’ with ‘ Break a leg”. But one tradition outranks them all and it’s exclusive to Broadway. Before any Broadway show (which posses an ensemble) on opening night, everyone from the cast and crew [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Colorblind Casting
Colorblind casting is the term given to the practice of overlooking an actor’s race while casting a production. The goal of colorblind casting is generally to avoid racial profiling or denying opportunities to a certain group of potentially talented individuals solely for their skin color. Colorblind casting says, “Hey, we don’t see color. We only [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Actors & Podcasts
One thing that’s great about performance is that the theater and arts community is always on the hunt for new avenues with which to express them. With the Internet comes a whole new chance to look at and distribute narrative. YouTube channels such as Wigs are already breaking ground in terms of film but I [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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