153 stories by "Ian Thal"
Tragedy isn't when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
Actors' Shakespeare Project's superb production of God's Ear honors this beautiful text.
The problem is that John August's book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.
From The Deep suggests that Boston's theater community would be better served if it put more of its resources into presenting the work of local literary talent.
In dramatist Nicolas Billon's enigmatic but involving Greenland, the audience is called on to actively reconstruct what occurred in the characters' lives.
Albatross is terrific -- a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.
Shakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.
The Theater J debacle points to the difficulties Jewish theater faces within the Jewish community.
The only Boston-based companies that have the means to stage an epic on this scale will shy away from the content while those adventurous enough to handle its iconoclasm lack the means.
The Real Thing's discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.
To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies. Make My Heart Flutter by Hanoch Levin. Translated by Karen Alkalay-Gut…
Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.
Self-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.
This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults.about sexting
In interesting ways, German Stage's ongoing exploration of Germany's immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.
The intriguing notion of a down-and-out clown troupe struggling with a classic text propels this superb production.
Director Jenna Ware's adaptation (a world premiere) of Carlo Goldoni's inspired zaniness puts a delightfully distinctive spin on a classic of clowning.
Playwright Amir Al-Azraki is in the camp that believes that the Iraqis themselves bear much of the responsibility for the chaos in their country.
Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more 'cinematic' when they are produced here?
Icarus proffers plenty of spectacle and talent, but the show only recycles a story we've seen countless times on stage and screen.
Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage -- two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres he…
Fort Point Theater Channel made a call for submissions for a new play to serve as a companion piece to "Krapp's Last Tape." The result: a performance of Samuel Beckett's classic with the wor…
The Underground Railway Theater production shows that sometimes children's theater is capable of a moral depth (perhaps even a fearlessness) that adult theater often avoids.
Unlike much of what comes through the new play development pipeline, "The Whale" proffers a coherent narrative structure -- the result is a well-crafted, somewhat edgy, domestic tragedy.
"Everybody has the power to change the world because we're a part of it. Even if it's a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path." - Jérôme Richer
