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• By any other name.(Arena Stage gets donations from Gilbert and Jaylee Mead)(Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. renamed after financing deal with Citigroup Inc.)(Brief article)

  - 2007-02-01

  WASHINGTON, D.C., BOSTON AND NYACK, N.Y.: In a huge leap toward its $120-million Next Stage Campaign goal, Arena Stage, in the nation's capital, has received close to $35 million from philanthropists (and "life trustees" of Arena) Gilbert and Jaylee Mead. The Meads' gift (matched by Arena's...

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• The Boston Globe Downtown Column.

  - 2002-06-19

  By Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

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• Bacall's `Waiting'.(Lauren Bacall in pre-Broadway tryout of 'Waiting in the Wings'; includes overview of other theatrical productions in New England)(Brief Article)

  - 1999-09-13

  HARTFORD, Conn. Lauren Bacall is causing the biggest buzz on New England's road scene because she's scheduled to be at Boston's Colonial Theatre Nov. 13-28 in a pre-Broadway tryout of Noel Coward's "Waiting in the Wings." Two other premieres -- one...

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• The Pirate. - Boston Ballet, Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1997-07-01

  WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, BOSTON MARCH 27-APRIL 13, 1997There's no faulting Boston Ballet's intentions in mounting the seldom seen evening-length version of the nineteenth-century ballet Le Corsaire, renamed The Pirate. Like the quest for the Holy Grail the dream is to find another classic ballet to attract as...

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• Orfeo ed Euridice. - Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1996-08-01

  It's no wonder that Mark Morris had a yen to direct Christoph Willibald Gluck's 1762 opera Orfeo ed Euridice, joining his reputation to other twentieth-century dancemakers--Isadora Duncan, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and George Balanchine--who had been fascinated by the work. As early as 1900, Duncan had danced to some of the opera's...

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• Boston Ballet Company. - Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1996-07-01

  How do you attract new audiences to ballet? How do you keep old ones coming back for more? Artistic director Bruce Marks found out that opposites attract.You can just imagine Boston Ballet's artistic director, Bruce Marks, exacting the following pledge from choreographers Danny Buraczeski, Daniel Pelzig, and Lila York before...

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• Boston Ballet. - Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1996-01-01

  Boston Ballet opened its thirty-second season with a new version of the evening-length work Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, now titled Happily Ever After, based on several familiar fairy tales. The ballet premiered in 1987 with three stories choreographed by company director Bruce Marks and former associate director Bruce Wells:...

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• Taming of the Shrew. - Boston Ballet Company, Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1995-10-01

  Two seasons ago Boston Ballet scored a critical success with John Cranko's dramatic Onegin. This year the company mounted his wildly comedic Taming of the Shrew (Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, May 4-21, 1995). The 1969 work is a wonderful addition to Boston Ballet's repertoire and is hugely...

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• Waterbaby Bagatelles. - Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1995-07-01

  Twyla Tharp's Waterbaby Bagatelles, originally made for a Boston Ballet gala last year, entered the repertoire during the company's American Festival II series (Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, March 23-April 9, 1995). With music by composers as varied as Anton Webern, Astor Piazzolla, and John Adams; costumes by...

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• The Sleeping Beauty. - Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, Massachusetts - dance reviews

  - 1994-02-01

  Under artistic director Bruce Marks, Boston Ballet has styled itself New World keeper of the flame for the Russian classical tradition. Fueled by associate director Anna-Marie Holmes's close association with the former Kirov Ballet and her mentor Natalia Dudinskaya, the company now has its third Petipa ballet in active repertoire....

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