The Lowell Folk Festival, one of the longest running free folk festivals in the country, announced the first nine performers coming to the mill city for 3 days of music, dance, crafts, food, and family fun Friday, July 28th through Sunday, July 30th.
The Lowell Folk Festival, one of the longest running free folk festivals in the country, announced the first nine performers coming to the mill city for 3 days of music, dance, crafts, food, and family fun Friday, July 28th through Sunday, July 30th.
MRT Presents New England Premiere Of A WOMAN OF THE WORLD
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will present the New England premiere of A Woman of the World by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman from May 15-30 - via video on demand only, according to Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director Courtney Sale and Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas. In the one-person show, New Englander Mabel Loomis Todd - best known for introducing poet Emily Dickinson to America in 1890 - regales us with tales of her sensational life, especially her 13 years with the Dickinson family.
Denise Cormier will play the title role. Her most recent New York credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company s The Minutes on Broadway, Second Stage s Linda Vista, and Atlantic Theatre Company s Dogg s Hamlet/Cahoot s Macbeth. Her credits include more than 20 New England shows, including seven at MRT (Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Boys Next Door, among others). Sale, appointed Artistic Director last March, will ma