Andrew Doerfler
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Andrew Doerfler is the arts and entertainment editor of The Berkeley Beacon.
Doerfler began his career at the Beacon writing previews of upcoming concerts in Boston, before serving as assistant arts and entertainment editor. Since becoming arts and entertainment editor, he has led the section's effort to focus its coverage on campus theater, film and other performance pieces.
Doerfler is a sophomore journalism major and a former staff writer for WERS.org.
Doerfler can be reached at andrewmdoerfler@gmail.com.
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Articles
Pub Club books blend youth, experience
CJ Nadeau’s novella The Mousetrap Rose creates a drug-flattened dystopian landscape, then splashes it with playfully surrealist imagery that the author has carried from his youth. Meanwhile, Donnie Welch’s poetry collection Who Gave These Flamingoes Those Tuxedos? peppers neuroses into Seussian verse.
Place Beyond the Pines tracks legacy in three parts
Derek Cianfrance asks something of his audience. The director’s 2010 debut feature Blue Valentine made viewers witness the blooming of a beautiful love affair while simultaneously bearing its frustrated implosion six years later. With his new film The Place Beyond the Pines, which opens in the Boston area on April 5, Cianfrance expects just as much patience.
As downtown develops, college touts its history
Downtown Boston’s reinvigoration has been a long time coming, and Emerson has expanded with it.
Controversial performer talks Disney, drugs, and dissent
Early last year, Mike Daisey was getting a lot of attention. His monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, in part about the working conditions in the Chinese factories that manufactured Apple products, had been adapted for the radio show This American Life. It quickly became the program’s most-downloaded episode. Two months later, Daisey got a different kind of attention, when This American Life issued an episode-long retraction of the segment after it was discovered that he had invented certain stories in the piece
Music videos on the big screen
The department of visual and media arts will be screening a selection of finalists from last year’s Los Angeles Music Video Festival in the Bright Family Screening Room.
Theater center to follow playwright residencies
The Center for the Theater Commons’ role, in part, will be to follow and document the residencies, which begin in July.
EVVY nominations announced
The nominations for the 31st EVVY Awards were announced yesterday and recognized student work across the college's departments.
Beacon around Boston: Independent Film Festival Boston
Next week, Independent Film Festival Boston is launching its 10th annual event. For the second year in a row, the Beacon will be there to cover it with film reviews, festival updates, and interviews with filmmakers.
Fractals and flirtation in a collaborative Café
Throughout the semester, Emerson students have been working with SITI Company, under the direction of company co-founder Anne Bogart, to create the new musical Café Variations.
Oscar reviews: 3D finds a worthy subject in Pina
Pina gorgeously renders a collage of dance routines, making it one of the few films so far to offer something truly new with this technology.
Oscar Reviews: The Descendants betrays one of director's major strengths
Alexander Payne has made great films that carry inherent tragedy in their protagonists. The movies rose above other reflective character studies because it was never certain if these men actually deserved redemption.
Alumni-run theater company gets In-Yer-Face
The Brown Box Theatre Project produces shows that might be hard to sit through, but that’s the point. The company wants to challenge audiences even if that means churning some stomachs.
Uncommon Commons
Polly Carl and David Dower have a vision for theater — one that encourages new work and makes it easily-accessible. They’ve decided Emerson is the place to bring that vision to life.
ArtsEmerson aspires to engage local community with new season
<p></p><p>For its inaugural season, ArtsEmerson...
ArtsEmerson aspires to engage local community with new season
<p></p><p>For its inaugural season, ArtsEmerson...
Tired story lines touch down on Another Earth
<p></p><p>There’s a whole lot of potential in t...
Color Me Obsessed is an effective tribute to The Replacements, but won’t recruit new fans
<p> </p><p>Throughout the 1980s, Minnesota...
Color Me Obsessed is an effective tribute to The Replacements, but won’t recruit new fans
<p> </p><p>Throughout the 1980s, Minnesota...
Convento
<p> </p><p>Certain parts of <em>Convento</...
Convento
<p> </p><p>Certain parts of <em>Convento</...
30th Evvys nominees prepare for primetime
<p> </p><p>The school year is all but over...
WECB showcases diversity and accessibility in concert
<p></p><p>At any given time, listeners to WECB,...
Boston music scene goes on the Record
<p></p><p>Audiophiles across the world (includ...
Boston music scene goes on the Record
<p></p><p>Audiophiles across the world (includ...
Warhol distorts rock concert, fame in pair of films
<p></p><p>In May of 1967, vice squad detectives...
Primacy Effect moves forward by looking back
<p></p><p>For some, nostalgia induces pangs of...
Primacy Effect moves forward by looking back
<p></p><p>For some, nostalgia induces pangs of...
Professor’s film stares into the Face of the Enemy
<p> </p><p>Three decades after Iran releas...
Clumsiness overshadows The Conspirator’s intrigue
<p> </p><p>Desperate times call for desper...
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All will offend you
<p></p><p>Graffiti declaring “Free Earl” has re...
Science on Screen expanding beyond the Coolidge
<p></p></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Som...
Gabriel Kuri opens consumerist exhibit at ICA
<p><em>Sidney Dritz, Beacon Correspondent, cont...
Weirdo Records turns two
<p></p><p>The art of temporally arranged sound:...
