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Buy Virtual Event PassesYou know how it is with family memories: along with the wonders and the warm fuzzies, there are the disasters. It was 1987; I was up in the Sanders gallery with two other members of the Revels team, checking out an evening performance. The set glowed, the chorus…
At The Poets’ Theatre, we concentrate our work on the intersection where poetry and drama meet, and if ever there was a poet who lived at that crossroads, it’s Dylan Thomas. His language just cries out to be spoken aloud, and not just beautifully, sonorously, but with a real,…
Dear Friends Far and Near, Being music director of Revels since 1984 has been a long and sweet ride. This year will be especially poignant for me because I will be wrapping up this chapter in my life on June 30. The reality of this decision is rather…
Because I make my living at it, I took the “novel-writing” skill-set to be a comprehensive toolkit for creative fulfillment. Or at least for my creative fulfillment. Having done time as an actor, director, and screenwriter, I was pretty confident that the novel-writing groove was my one true Happy Place….
Wales Tales Since the first of the year I have been accumulating and sifting through loads of music possibilities for our upcoming Welsh Christmas Revels and our new CD, A Revels Christmas in Wales. At the same time, my long-held desire to go to Wales to explore my family roots began…
Twice every year we have the opportunity to celebrate the solstices. The term derives from the Latin words, sol and sistere which translate as “the sun” and “to stand still.” For a couple of years I worked with Circus Flora, a wonderful old-world, one-ring circus created for Giancarlo…
Scottish Harpist Maeve Gilchrist explores new terrain for Revels By Jeremy D. Goodwin Globe Correspondent June 11, 2015 Maeve Gilchrist’s musical memories go back to when she was a very young girl in Edinburgh, eager to join in with the adults who frequently jammed on traditional Irish and Scottish…
We are wrapping up the academic year at Revels, completing many different programs with children and teens who come to Revels every week and are deeply involved in the organization, and thousands of other children who have been introduced to Revels through the David Coffin Visiting Artist Program….
Mitch Ryerson, that master of woodworking whimsy, was the one who had the idea. Mitch, who is a consummate craftsman with his own furniture making and sculpture studio, is well known for his work on children’s playgrounds and for his transformation of tree stumps into delightful sculptures and…
May Day is here, so let us bid a hearty welcome to summer. Yes, I am aware that barbeques, cold lemonade, hammock naps and beach outings are still more than a month away, and I know that the calendar will not officially sanction the season for another six…
