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Check out these photos from the Fashion Accessibility Project

June 26, 2017 The World On Stage 0 Comments

When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) turned 25 in 2015, the milestone sparked a movement in the fashion design industry. Many designers began creating clothing and fashion for those with disabilities; their solution-based designs allowed these pieces of practical and stylish clothing to solve problems rather than create them. This past weekend ArtsEmerson and Epicenter Community teamed up to create something unique, New England’s very first fashion accessibility event. The event took place in front of a…

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How to be a Rock Critic- Audience Album Picks

May 23, 2017 The World On Stage 0 Comments

Throughout the run of How to be a Rock Critic at the Paramount, we asked audiences to write down the name of an album they would go to bat for as the best album of all time. The responses were wide ranging, some including drawings of the band logos or additional commentary (i.e. “Double Fantasy (minus Yoko’s song)”) or even some simple doodles and exclamation points to really hit home just how crucial the album is for…

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Lester Bangs on Boston

May 16, 2017 The World On Stage 0 Comments

  Lester Bangs never lived in Boston; by all accounts he probably never even visited The Hub. But in the middle of the critical and audience rave—How To Be A Rock Critic—we’ve dug through his writing to find out what the legendary rock critic thought of the music scene and rock criticism coming out of Boston in the sixties and seventies from afar.   Bangs credited local band Black Pearl with developing the genre that…

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Congratulations, Elliot Norton Awards Winners!

May 16, 2017 The World On Stage 0 Comments

“In all, 26 ‘Norties’ went to various local and visiting companies and artists for outstanding work at venues around the greater Boston area.” – WBUR Congratulations to all of the winners. We are so proud to have two award winners from our 2016/17 Season: Outstanding Ensemble: “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” Druid Theatre Company presented by ArtsEmerson Outstanding New Script: “Mala,” by Melinda Lopez, ArtsEmerson Also, looking to the future, we are so excited to see the…

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What did you think of How to Be a Rock Critic?

May 11, 2017 The World On Stage 3 Comments

Thank you for joining us for How to Be a Rock Critic. We hope you enjoyed your visit with Lester. Were you familiar with Lester Bangs before coming to the show tonight? Is there are critic whose opinion you value and whose writing you follow? What do you feel is the most overrated album of all time? There’s so much to pull from the writings of Lester Bangs partially because there’s so much to say about…

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