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Monday, October 31, 2022

Clowning “On Beckett,” Irwin Delights at the Emerson Paramount Center by Matthew McMahan

Bill Irwin greets the audience by conveying that the performance will be around 90 minutes (by way of reassurance, he admits). In truth, the performance zips by. Irwin dazzles as he pontific…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:57PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Funny and Fem, “She the People” at the Huntington Theatre Company by Matthew McMahan

Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves has landed at the Huntington Theatr…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:37PM

Screaming, Sweat, and Prizes in “Old School Game Show” at OBERON by Matthew McMahan

One of Boston’s long-running interactive theatrical events, now featured routinely at the American Repertory Theater’s OBERON theatre in Cambridge, Old School Game Show is a madcap throw…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:23PM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Laughing Matters by Matthew McMahan

By Matthew McMahan. Professor Matthew McMahan talks about the importance of understanding comedy’s theatrical history: how it has evolved, what it says about a society, and why the genre s…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM