All credit to Emerson College for its tremendous campus improvements. As sad as it is that the college had to give up those charming but hardly cost-efficient Beacon Street brownstones, a look at the Boston Common-area buildings are encouraging.
The Cutler Majestic Theatre is stunning inside. The acoustics during a performance of “The Fabulous Invalid” last night at the Majestic were strangely bad, but a gaze around the refurbished 1903 theater afterward made up for it.
The new Tufte Performance and Production Center, cleverly tucked away behind the Majestic, is a sharp and valuable addition. (One oddity: The third-floor black box theater’s reception space gets uncomfortably packed with only a couple of dozen people in it, and its sloping glass wall offers only an earthy but less-than-glamorous close-up of the back of another building, complete with fire escape and smoking stagehands.) The Tufte building’s coolest aspect is the ethereal, ever-changing lights aligned on every floor visible from the Tremont Street alley next to the Majestic.
That Emerson is doing so well is strong testimony to my policy of not giving it any money. Cheers!
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