Behind the Curtain: City museum hosts one-woman show

Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 7, 2008

The last time a museum in Attleboro hosted theater it was the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum, which rented a wing to Attleboro Community Theatre to stage plays along Union Street for a decade or more.
ACT eventually moved out and, after a three-year stay at a Firearms School in North Attleboro, settled into a splendid small [...]

Dramas Get Attention And Give Musicals A Run For Their Money

Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 1, 2008

For at least 25 years, the premier commercial theater district in the country has been dominated by musicals. Such serious dramatists as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were once represented on Broadway marquees, but the straight play was pushed to the margins during the final third of the last century.
As the audience base shifted from [...]

Strata forges ahead in the Midlands

Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008

When Midlands Housing last caught up with Strata, it was very much a newcomer to the Midlands scene, despite having very much established itself in and around South Yorkshire. With homes now completed and sold, in the region, however, its no longer hard to find physical evidence of the companys Midlands march.
Originally created in 1919 [...]