Artistic Director

It didn't take Gil Rose long to fill his schedule. Just before Christmas, Rose's position as artistic director of Opera Boston disappeared when the company closed. Today, Monadnock Music, based in Peterborough, N.H., and known for its annual summer music festival, appointed Rose as its new artistic director. Rose, who also leads the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, replaces Jonathan Bagg and Laura Gilbert, the former co-artistic directors who last year were told that they would not be invited back as part of changes being made at Monadnock Music.

Stephen Cooper is Pablo Picasso and Linda Goetz is Miss Fischer in Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, which has been extended through May 27 at Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette Street in Salem. The following was submitted by the Salem Theatre Company: Salem Theatre Company has extended their run of Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso for one week.  The production will now complete a five-week run on May 27th. "This is the first time in our history that we have had an opportunity to extend a run of one of our productions," states John Fogle, Artistic...

Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, and says he'll present his first show for the renowned fashion house in Paris in July. The appointment comes seven months after star designer John Galliano was convicted by a Paris court for making anti-Semitic insults. The job of artistic director has been open since then. Simons, who previously designed for the Jil Sander fashion house, was considered a top candidate for the job. A statement by Dior on Monday said Simons "will inspire and propel into the 21st century" the style of the...

The Linden Ponds Players will perform two murder mystery plays Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The actors are all residents of Linden Ponds, and have been performing shows at the retirement community since 2007. This year, the players hope to challenge the audience to discover who done it in Agatha Christie's "The Patient," and in "The Amnesiac" by the Players' artistic director, Frances Galton. The plays are free, but donations are encouraged. All contributions go to Linden Ponds' two nonprofit organizations: The Student Scholarship Fund, which helps young employees pay for college; and the...

The Tribeca Film Festival is getting a French connection. Tribeca announced Monday that Frederic Boyer (boy-YAY') has been named the artistic director of the festival. Boyer had run the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes (kan) Film Festival since 2009. Boyer is also the artistic director for the Les Arcs European Film Festival in France. Tribeca's last artistic director was Peter Scarlet, who resigned in 2009. Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore will also take on a more active role in overseeing the festival's program.

Eight months after Kate Warner abruptly resigned as artistic director, Watertown's New Repertory Theatre has settled on a successor: Jim Petosa, the longtime director of the School of Theatre at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. In an interview yesterday, Petosa said he will accept a three-year contract with New Rep, beginning Aug. 1. He plans to retain his BU post, which he has held since 2002 while directing roughly 60 productions, including three at New Rep in the past three years.

After 27 seasons, Gloucester Stage founder Israel Horovitz is retiring as the company's artistic director. And the stars are aligning in tribute. Tomorrow, two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey performs in the one-woman show, "Women on Fire," by Irene O'Garden . The show, which premiered off-Broadway in 2003, explores the lives of 12 contemporary women from diverse backgrounds. Ivey starred on Broadway in Horovitz's play, "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard.

Stephen Cooper is Pablo Picasso and Linda Goetz is Miss Fischer in Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, which has been extended through May 27 at Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette Street in Salem. The following was submitted by the Salem Theatre Company: Salem Theatre Company has extended their run of Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso for one week.  The production will now complete a five-week run on May 27th. "This is the first time in our history that we have had an opportunity to extend a run of one of our productions," states John Fogle, Artistic...

Few would dispute that Jerome Robbins was one of the great theater directors and choreographers of the 20th century. Stephen Sondheim called him "the only genius I ever met. " But Robbins unleashed his creativity in two distinctly different realms. The Broadway Jerome Robbins conceived "West Side Story" and was a driving force behind "On the Town," "Peter Pan," "Gypsy," "Funny Girl," "Fiddler on the Roof," and many more. The ballet Jerome Robbins was a fine dancer who worked with Michel Fokine (who gave him the title role in "Petrouchka")

Mayor Tom Menino hosted a party at the Parkman House Wednesday night to celebrate Shakespeare on the Common's 17th anniversary season, which kicks off with "Coriolanus" in July. Among the 75 guests (from near right) were Commonwealth Shakespeare Company founding artistic director Steven Maler and Commonwealth-affiliated actors Will Lyman and Karen MacDonald.

Few would dispute that Jerome Robbins was one of the great theater directors and choreographers of the 20th century. Stephen Sondheim called him "the only genius I ever met. " But Robbins unleashed his creativity in two distinctly different realms. The Broadway Jerome Robbins conceived "West Side Story" and was a driving force behind "On the Town," "Peter Pan," "Gypsy," "Funny Girl," "Fiddler on the Roof," and many more. The ballet Jerome Robbins was a fine dancer who worked with Michel Fokine (who gave him the title role in "Petrouchka")

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...

The job at Dior has finally been filled. On Monday, the Paris fashion house revealed that Raf Simons is taking over as artistic director, replacing John Galliano, who was fired from Dior last year after he made anti-Semitic remarks. Simons's first collection is planned for July at the fall haute couture shows in Paris. The choice of Simons culminates more than a year of discussions and apparent soul searching by Dior and its boss, Bernard Arnault, who is chairman of LVMH, about the ideal person to give creative direction to the 66-year-old luxury brand.

Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, and says he'll present his first show for the renowned fashion house in Paris in July. The appointment comes seven months after star designer John Galliano was convicted by a Paris court for making anti-Semitic insults. The job of artistic director has been open since then. Simons, who previously designed for the Jil Sander fashion house, was considered a top candidate for the job. A statement by Dior on Monday said Simons "will inspire and propel into the 21st century" the style...

There was something poetic, as well as tragic, about the death of French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Just like the hero of his most famous book, "Le petit prince," he disappeared without a trace, after taking off from Corsica on a World War II reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean. "Le petit prince" itself has never disappeared. It's been translated into more than 200 languages. It's been turned into a Lerner & Loewe film musical, a Japanese "anime" series, several theater pieces, and at least four operas.

Just in time to celebrate Michael Maso's 30 years as managing director of the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston had a fireworks display. Not the good kind. A spectacular blaze at an electrical substation on the evening of March 13 plunged the Back Bay and surrounding areas into darkness, just minutes before a preview performance of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was to start at the Boston University Theatre on Huntington Avenue. "The cast was at ‘places,' the audience was in the house," Maso said a few days later.

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...

It starts in the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1924 when, Jung Chang writes, "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. " It ends in 1978, as Chang herself takes flight to a new life in London. In between, in Chang's 500-page memoir, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China," her parents - both of them young, idealistic communists - meet, marry, fight Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, move to the Sichuan city of Chengdu, and survive famine before falling victim to the endless purges of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and being...

The Boston Jewish Film Festival has chosen a new artistic director to replace Sara Rubin, who abruptly stepped down last fall. Amy Geller, who's produced a variety of feature, documentary, and short films, has been tapped to take over as artistic director. Her responsibilities will include selecting the films and programs for the annual festival. "I am excited for [the BJFF] to get a fresh perspective," the festival's executive director Jaymie Saks said in a statement. "Amy's understanding of current trends in film and filmmaking is an asset.

Mayor Tom Menino hosted a party at the Parkman House Wednesday night to celebrate Shakespeare on the Common's 17th anniversary season, which kicks off with "Coriolanus" in July. Among the 75 guests (from near right) were Commonwealth Shakespeare Company founding artistic director Steven Maler and Commonwealth-affiliated actors Will Lyman and Karen MacDonald.