“Domiii-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Alessandra Settineri’s voice reverberates through the room – a small, black-box style theatre. Onstage, she is Abuela in Wendy Kesselman’s Maggie Magalita. Her character has just finished (and won) a game of dominoes with her Americanized granddaughter. She lifts her arms, cocks her hip, and the lights go black. The room explodes in between-scene…
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On the final Sunday in September, the sun blazes. It feels like mid-July, but in fact the summer weather is giving its last hurrah before autumn takes its colorful grip on New England. The cracked concrete of a small parking lot tucked in behind Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Mass. plays host to the sweating attendees…
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Emma Glassman-Hughes considers herself a traveler. A twenty year old student at Emerson College, working towards a customized major entitled “The Political Sociology of Social Change,” Glassman-Hughes has visited South Africa, Qatar, and South Carolina just this past summer. In the past few years, she has spent a semester abroad in the Netherlands, traveling around…
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When Summer Rayne Oakes’ roommate moved out of their NYC apartment six years ago, Oakes felt her decorative restrictions in the shared space lift; she was now free to fill her own space however she wanted to. The first thing she did was buy a plant – a fiddleleaf fig tree. “It just kind of…
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