Post Show Opening Night Toast

FRI, MAY 01
Following the 8:00PM performance in the Paramount Theatre
Please join us to toast the cast and celebrate The Grand Parade! Cash bar will remain open following the performance in the Randall lobby.

Art on Stage: Marc Chagall's Interpretation of the 20th Century and Influence on The Grand Parade

SAT, MAY 02
Following the 8:00PM performance in the Paramount Theatre
Please join us for an exciting discussion with the Double Edge Theatre ensemble and author/critic Jonathan Wilson, author of Marc Chagall - a book that "clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel." The life and work of Chagall depict a fascinating story of the 20th Century that Double Edge has brought to life on stage. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage with this fantastic local author and visionary ensemble.

Click Here for a side-by-side comparison of Chagall's art and The Grand Parade.

On Jonathan Wilson:
Jonathan Wilson's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. In 1994 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. His fiction has been translated into many languages including Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Uyghur.

Wilson is the author of seven previous books: the novels The Hiding Room (Viking 1994), runner up for the JQ Wingate Prize, and A Palestine Affair (Pantheon 2003), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Barnes and Noble Discovery finalist and runner up for the 2004 National Jewish Book Award; two collections of short stories, Schoom (Penguin 1993) and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble (Pantheon 2004); two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow; and a biography, Marc Chagall (Nextbook/Schocken 2007), runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. Kick and Run is his eighth book and his first work of memoir.

Wilson lives in Newton, Massachusetts. He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
 

The Artist as Global Citizen: Confronting Genocide in Our Work and Practice

Panel discussion and potluck dinner*
SUN, MAY 03
Jackie Liebergott Black Box
Immediately following the 2pm performance
“One of the key requirements of genocide is that we look away. So if we can look back, maybe that will strengthen us so we won't look away the next time.”
~Erik Ehn

Immediately following the 2pm performance of The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century), join Double Edge Theatre, ArtsEmerson, and Barbara Grossman of Tufts University for a roundtable discussion of the intersection of art and genocide.

Bring a dish to share and meet us in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box for a potluck meal and conversation around the experiences of creating art inspired by acts of destruction.

*Participants are encouraged to drop off dishes for the potluck before the performance if desired

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Inside The Arts: Dinner With Friends At Le Petit, The Grand Parade Rolls At CAC, Union Tanguera

This week on Inside the Arts we explore relationships and the subject of divorce as Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Dinner with Friends opens at Le Petit Theatre...
Click here to listen

 

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