The 64,000 question is, if the artists' concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did "Interference"'s press releases and the program cite Picasso's "Guernica"?
"The working relationship is based on the mutual feeling that all three of us have the same understanding of the purpose of the theatre " to present plays that create a cathartic experience …
"There is a struggle in love in the best of circumstances, and when on top of the daily challenges there are divisions of culture or society or simply of invented categories " well, that doe…
If "Henry VIII" is dramatically lacking when compared to Shakespeare's other histories, what makes this production worthwhile is the care Actors' Shakespeare Project has brought to staging i…
In his satire "The Golden Dragon," Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to "theater-people": be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.
"The Whore From Ohio" is a provocative reminder that the same creature that is born to eat, drink, copulate, rot, and die is also a creature that dreams, tells stories, contemplates its own …
Refreshingly, playwright Marianna Salzmann manages to be political without being didactic. Her characters live (rather than preach) through history, grappling with the transition from totali…
BTC's experiment, while not without its faults, proffers an admirable model of the sort of creative thinking that more companies should emulate when placing Shakespearean drama in a contempo…
Actors' Shakespeare Project's production is a fine start to the company's tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement -- for this company, story …
Swiss Stage's inaugural offering was Dog Paddle (Schwimmen wie Hunde), a domestic comedy based on existential themes, by the German-speaking playwright Reto Finger.
Playwright Stephen Jeffreys, despite his gifts as a writer, despite his fascination with the milieu, and despite his obvious admiration for Wilmot's rarified obscenity, seems unable to find …
Director Spiro Veloudos keeps the clockwork running smoothly, not just ensuring that that the actors keep the rhythm, but making use of a skilled backstage crew who engineer (miraculously an…
This production of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice" tries to have it both ways: a show about intolerance, bigotry, and hatred is set in a 'politically correct' past.
Anat Gov does a fine job on the meta-playwriting level. "Best Friends" is a genre piece that is also an affectionate commentary on the genre to which it belongs.
The Federalist Society goes to the theater... and free-associates.
Leaving aside the doctrinal issue of how much of a commedia dell'arte evening should be improvised and how much should be scripted, the Yale Repertory Theatre production, in terms of perfor…
Director Guy Ben-Aharon is on a roll. Working through Israeli Stage and German Stage, he has brought together another smart, compelling foreign play (an American premiere) and a first-rate c…
Despite being a staged reading with scripts still in hand, the members of the Israeli Stage ensemble were already comfortably inhabiting their roles, striking just the right balance between …
Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities ra…
"The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that…
The agility of Les 7 Doigts de la Main's acrobats may be the spectacle that draws audiences in to see "Séquence 8," but it's their decision to treat acrobatics and other types of circus vir…
"One of the enormous changes I've seen is that in big city theater scenes, queer work isn't so scarce anymore, which is great. These days, no major theater company in a city like Boston woul…
Many historical dramas are content to use the past as a lens through which to view the present, but "Hand in Hand Together" does more than explore how conflicting ideologies influenced the c…
A sobering look at Schumann's past and present.
"As an artist, you probably know when a project pulls at you, sometimes kicking and screaming. Shylock definitely has me by the back of the neck."