Kind of a funny juxtaposition in the Globe today. In Living/Arts, Geoff Edgers writes about Jay Severin's national radio deal, due to be announced today. And on the Op-Ed page, Scot Lehigh needles Severin for leaving listeners with the false impression that he's won a Pulitzer Prize.
Also in the Globe, Maureen Dezell reports on the controversy over naming of the new troupe that fill be formed from the union of the Provincetown Theatre Company and the Provincetown Repertory Theatre. Apparently many are up in arms because they were going to call the new group The Provincetown Players, which was the name of a "vital but short-lived" theater company that counted Eugene O'Neill as a member. The original Players existed - brace yourself - from 1916-1922. So the original troupe disbanded 83 YEARS AGO. Sorry, but I think the controversy is hilarious.
The Globe's Ed Siegel likes the Huntington's production of "The Real Thing" but not star Rufus Harris, which is a neat trick. The Herald's Terry Byrne just doesn't like it much, finding it "a clever, but cold, exercise." (I liked it just fine.)
The Globe and the Herald also disagree over the new Snappy Dance program. The Globe's Karen Campbell calls the standout piece "Lumen" "a gorgeous interplay of vivid lighting and beautifully toned bodies in near constant motion." The Herald's Ted Bale calls it "old-fasioned, like a lesser dance from Pilobolus." But maybe Ted was just pissed after the dance of "unfortunate elitism" called "Revolutionary Small Talk" in which a dancer wearing a Made In Ireland t-shirt reads the Herald and litters. Campbell kinda liked it.
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