Students experience BPT “from page to stage”
Richard Chambers’s freshman seminar at Suffolk University offers students the opportunity to read, analyze, and experience local live theatrical performances, including two at BPT last fall—Lost Tempo and Elemeno Pea. Read the full story “It’s so cool picking apart a play and trying to understand it. And then you go and see you’re all wrong, […]
‘Lost Tempo’ hits the right notes with critics
‘Lost Tempo’ hits the right notes
Review from The Boston Globe The tale of the self-destructive artist is as old as, well, art. And jazz has certainly contributed its own chapters to that grim story, from Bix Beiderbecke to Charlie Parker to Billie Holiday. It can’t be said that playwright Cliff Odle adds anything especially new or novel to that saga […]
Playwright Cliff Odle on ‘Lost Tempo’
Music is a verb. —Ornette Coleman A while back I was an understudy for August Wilson’s King Hedley II at the Huntington Theatre starring Tony Todd and Ella Joyce with Marion McClinton directing. (I even went on stage for a week when the actor I was covering, Russell Wilson, got sick. This was also my […]
Poster for ‘Lost Tempo’…
…which has its first performances this week! Tickets
A new beginning
Remember the stage in the front theatre? It’s gone. Jeffrey worked hard this summer transforming our signature venue into a more flexible space that (very soon!) will become the world of Cliff Odle’s Lost Tempo. It’s a big change, but we’re excited!