QED
So, in all that spare time I have between my 18 jobs, I've joined the board of the Underground Railway Theater. My first meeting was last night, and I think it's going to be a fun ride. They're a great company.
And they're doing a great show this weekend (at a great price, too!)--QED, by Peter Parnell, about that wild man of physics, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. Should be a hoot. The show runs Wednesday--tomorrow--through Sunday at the Broad Institute at MIT. Tickets ($20 adult/$12 students & seniors) are available here. And there's post-performance discussions by outstanding local scientists (they're thick on the ground at MIT; I think the director just runs outside and grabs the first person in a tweed coat he sees and drags them in after the show).
This production is in previews now, so no reviews have come out, but here's a very nice one from a California production that starred Alan Alda, by a writer who was an old friend of Feynman's. Gives you the flavor of the thing.
I hope you can come!
UPDATE: An article about this production can be found here.
Who is Miss Conduct?
Robin Abrahams writes the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine. Robin, who has a PhD in psychology from Boston University, has worked as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are given annually for achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.
