I wondered why SpeakEasy Stage emailed me its season press release at 11:53 p.m. on Thursday; maybe it's that the announcement was already handed off to the Herald's Terry Byrne and to the Globe for Maureen Dezell's Stages column this morning. The news includes a production of Tony Kushner's "Caroline, or Change" in association with the North Shore Music Theatre. Speakeasy's season in the Roberts Studio Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts opens Sept. 30 with the East Coast premiere of, ironically enough, "Theater District," starring Bill Brochtrup (left), best known for his role as the gay precinct receptionist on "NYPD Blue." ... Dezell also has word that the Merrimac Repertory Theatre board has voted to go ahead with a season in anticipation of a successful fund-raising campaign to save the company.
The Globe's Richard Dyer has some interesting notes from Tanglewood, including the unlikely fact that Seiji Ozawa drives a Chevy Suburban. ... Names & Faces says Gloucester playwright Israel Horovitz's "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" is getting three Euro productions this year, including one with, oh, let's not spoil it. ... Renee Graham tells us about a mashup musicologist from Cambridge.
Both papers have nodded to this weekend's closing of the longtime Cambridge club ManRay, so friendly to gays, goths and other late-night cultures. I like Heather Eng's take in the Herald. And that club has been around a long time - somewhere in the basement I have a mix tape, "The redfish is black/The hatcheck girl is a guy" commemorating a mid-'80s trip to Cajun Yankee and ManRay.
Heading to the Lowell Folk fest this weekend? Read Dan Gewertz in the Herald, Scott Alarik in the Globe...and HubArts.
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