Archive for August, 2009

ASL Interpreters Take a Bow

Thursday, August 13th, 2009


ASL Interpreters Take a Bow, originally uploaded by rpmaxwell.

Last Saturday’s performance of The Comedy of Errors was interpreted in ASL just off-stage-left as part of CSC’s dedication to making the production accessible to all.

Pictured: the ASL team is applauded during the curtain call.

NEC Opera Greenshows

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Rigoletto Quartet

This year, for the first time, CSC has been presenting “greenshows”: brief programs of music and theatre before our main production on the Boston Common. This past weekend, we were joined by Timothy Steele of the New England Conservatory Opera Studies program, as well as NEC Opera students Samantha Weppelmann, Kimberly Soby, Mxolisi Duda, and Jean Bernard Cerin. (more…)

Through the Looking Glass

Saturday, August 8th, 2009


Backstage on the Common, originally uploaded by rpmaxwell.

Onstage: twenty-seven actors dancing, singing, speaking Shakespeare’s words.

Backstage: one actor tapping out his own dance in downtime between scenes.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Here’s a bit of a photo essay about last Friday, which was to have been our first preview, but ended up being a rain out, a rehearsal, a line-through, and an early night for the cast.

First, there was a severe thunderstorm that drenched the area and chased the cast into the trailers:

Waiting Out the Rain

Anyone know any good camp songs? (more…)

Run, Don’t Walk…

Friday, August 7th, 2009

… to see The Comedy of Errors

Run, Don't Walk

Pictured: One of many audience members engaging in the nightly ritual of rushing to get a spot close to the stage when the house opens up before the show.

And once word of the Boston Globe’s review gets around, the rush is only going to get rushier!