American Repertory Theater

WHO Clive Goodwin WHAT The resident sound designer at the American Repertory Theater since 2009, the Arlington resident and native Briton got his first Tony Award nomination this week — one of 11 nods to the musical "Once. " A stage adaptation of John Carney's Irish movie of the same name, "Once" was workshopped at the ART last season before opening in New York. Like the movie, the Broadway show has music and lyrics by the film's stars, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

WHO Clive Goodwin WHAT The resident sound designer at the American Repertory Theater since 2009, the Arlington resident and native Briton got his first Tony Award nomination this week — one of 11 nods to the musical "Once. " A stage adaptation of John Carney's Irish movie of the same name, "Once" was workshopped at the ART last season before opening in New York. Like the movie, the Broadway show has music and lyrics by the film's stars, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

There will be some familiar faces on the stage at this summer’s Shakespeare on the Common. Three actors we’ve long associated with the American Repertory Theater are reconvening — this time in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of “All’s Well That Ends Well,’’ which runs July 27-Aug.14. ART alums in the cast include Karen MacDonald , Remo Airaldi , and Will LeBow . Read the Names blog at www.boston.com/namesblog. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.

"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," a revival of the George Gershwin classic that began life last fall at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge before moving to Broadway, has racked up 10 Tony Award nominations, second only to "Once," which received 11 nominations. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" also received 10 nominations. "Porgy and Bess" was nominated for best revival of a musical, and Diane Paulus, the ART's artistic director, was nominated as best director of a musical.

'Tis the busy season for American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus. Apart from the ART's local shows - "Three Pianos," "The Snow Queen," and "The Donkey Show" - the production of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" just opened in previews on Broadway, the ART run of the Broadway-bound musical "Once" is sold out, the New York revival of Robert Brustein's "Shlemiel the First" is garnering good reviews, and the company of "Wild Swans" has...

"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," a revival of the George Gershwin classic that began life amid controversy last fall at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge before moving to Broadway, has racked up 10 Tony Award nominations. That bounty placed "Porgy and Bess" second only to the 11 nominations for "Once," a musical adaptation of a 2006 film that was developed at the ART early last year before opening in New York. "Nice Work If You Can Get It," another musical built on Gershwin tunes, also received 10 nominations.

CAMBRIDGE — They're not making careers like Robert Brustein's anymore, if they ever did. Founding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for The New Republic for half a century. Dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he became an early champion of such students as Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang. Author, teacher, director, playwright, sometime actor, and mentor to many who became artistic directors themselves — among them Jeff Zinn,...

That traditional distance between performer and audience - they’re up there on the stage, we’re down here, cozy in our seats - has lately begun to narrow. First there was the American Repertory Theater production of “Sleep No More,’’ which puts spectators smack in the middle of the bloody doings of “Macbeth.’’ Now comes “England,’’ a surprisingly affecting conceptual work by Tim Crouch that also brings the audience face to face with the performers. (Crouch, the head of the British avant-garde ensemble News from Nowhere, is also author of “My...

Now playing THREE PIANOS Lurking at the heart of this clever, beguiling journey through Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" is the notion that music has a singular power to speak not just to us but for us. Through Jan. 8. Presented by American Repertory Theater at Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge. 617-547-8300, www.americanrepertorytheater.org THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Unconstrained by any sense of obligation to a masterpiece - which this Shakespeare comedy decidedly is not - director Steven Barkhimer and his well-chosen cast (including Richard Snee as Falstaff)

STANDING OUTSIDE the refurbished Opera House, Modern, or Paramount theaters, the revitalization of Boston's theater row is dazzlingly apparent. Twinkling marquees light streets once punctuated by the XXX signs of the Combat Zone. A dying neighborhood now pulses with the energy of lively performance venues, restaurants, stores, and residences. The revitalization of so many theaters has left Boston with an enviable problem - lots of grand facilities in search of worthwhile productions.

CAMBRIDGE — They're not making careers like Robert Brustein's anymore, if they ever did. Founding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for The New Republic for half a century. Dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he became an early champion of such students as Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang. Author, teacher, director, playwright, sometime actor, and mentor to many who became artistic directors themselves — among them Jeff Zinn, Kate...

PHOTOGRAPH 51 X-ray images taken by the young British scientist Rosalind Franklin led to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, but her contributions have been far less heralded than those of the three men who shared a Nobel Prize for the breakthrough. Playwright Anna Ziegler seeks to rectify that in this drama, directed by Daniel Gidron, and starring Becky Webber as the driven Franklin, who died at age 37 of ovarian cancer. Feb. 9-March 4. Presented by Nora Theatre Company.

'Tis the busy season for American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus. Apart from the ART's local shows - "Three Pianos," "The Snow Queen," and "The Donkey Show" - the production of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" just opened in previews on Broadway, the ART run of the Broadway-bound musical "Once" is sold out, the New York revival of Robert Brustein's "Shlemiel the First" is garnering good reviews, and the company of "Wild Swans" has...

STANDING OUTSIDE the refurbished Opera House, Modern, or Paramount theaters, the revitalization of Boston's theater row is dazzlingly apparent. Twinkling marquees light streets once punctuated by the XXX signs of the Combat Zone. A dying neighborhood now pulses with the energy of lively performance venues, restaurants, stores, and residences. The revitalization of so many theaters has left Boston with an enviable problem - lots of grand facilities in search of worthwhile productions.

There will be some familiar faces on the stage at this summer’s Shakespeare on the Common. Three actors we’ve long associated with the American Repertory Theater are reconvening — this time in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of “All’s Well That Ends Well,’’ which runs July 27-Aug.14. ART alums in the cast include Karen MacDonald , Remo Airaldi , and Will LeBow . Read the Names blog at www.boston.com/namesblog. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.

CAMBRIDGE — Chances are a lot of people will flock to see American Repertory Theater’s “Cabaret’’ simply because rock singer Amanda Palmer is starring in it. But they might be surprised to discover that the best reasons to see this innovative and engrossing “Cabaret’’ have less to do with Palmer than with an impressive pair of newcomers and an old ART hand. Director Steven Bogart, a drama teacher at Lexington High School who once counted Palmer among his students, makes his regional theater debut with a visually inventive and...