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“We’ve had an incredible home at the Loeb Drama Center for the A.R.T.’s history, but we have been bursting at the seams,” said A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. “And I think the opportunity to have a new home in Allston, for the A.R.T. to become officially a Boston theater, is exciting.”

“We’ll finally have space that allows us to do all of it under one roof — incredible rehearsal spaces and classrooms — which really makes the teaching-hospital metaphor that has driven my vision very palpable.” [said] ART artistic director Diane Paulus.

“It is thrilling to see the David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Performance & Creativity begin to rise at 175 N. Harvard Street,” said Diane Paulus, the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the A.R.T.

“I think [The Great Gatsby] is one of the most potently American stories that we have. I find it to be both the most clear-eyed and hopeful of what I think the American soul is,” Majok said. “I associate really deeply with Gastby. His story, who he is, resonates really deeply with me.”

“I think The Great Gatsby reminds us of how history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We’ve been here before—will we learn this time?” [says Pfeiffer].

“Gatsby” is not just a novel — it is America’s imagining of itself. A reflection on the glamour and the hollowness of the American Dream.

“I want people to walk away from this story thinking about how accustomed we have gotten to seeing certain bodies being on the other end of violence,” says Pfeiffer. “How can we examine that this country has been built in a way that has allowed us to treat each other like this? When do we stand up for our neighbors?”