26 stories by "Joann Green Breuer"
We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik's life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas's family melodrama to bear.
You know we have come a long way when, just like everyone else, transsexuals can have their own mediocre musical.
Richard Nelson's family members talk to each other, not to us. We are privileged to be permitted to listen in.
Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room's sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.
Every Brilliant thing is evidence, which we may need, that life matters, and that theatre matters.
In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O'Neill's Theater Center's purpose is, at its source, process.
Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.
I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd's Absence at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. The opening weekend ran with understudy Kippy Goldfarb in the central role. Later I …
Dramatist Richard Nelson's language is plain poetry, which passes as prose. It is conversation, as another poet hymned, transmogrified.
What feels absent in Bruce Norris's "Domesticated" is some sort of moral center to its familiarly skewed, down sliding spiral of relationships.
Director Bill Rauch's concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country " but make reservations early.
With his biopic "Orchestra of Exiles," director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.
The film asks: what are you going to believe, the facts or your lying eyes? The truth is that we do not always want to confess. My Dad is Baryshnikov, directed by Dmitry Povolotsky. Russia 2…
A collection of short films and a documentary at The Boston Jewish Film Festival that serve up plenty of decision, determination, devotion and delight.
It can be a long wait for the end of the world, even though it lies only a week away, to wit, from the beginning to the end of the Israeli film "We Are Not Alone."
In this compelling stage version of "Frankenstein," urgency of revenge pushes forward, murder upon murder. Creature and Doctor merge in immorality. Both are playing God in their command of l…
A.R.T artistic director Diane Paulus, entrepreneur extraordinaire, seems to have plucked impulse for character and meandering plot from a watered (down) idea of The Tempest.
As this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles 'comedy,' a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.
The Boston Jewish Film Festival saves one of its best films, "Mabul," for last, and some final thoughts on this year's line-up of movies.
More comments on the films in this year's Boston Jewish Film Festival, including "Dolphin Boy", an uneven documentary about dolphins and healing, and "Dusk," one of the finest films in the f…
More comments on the movies in this year's Boston Jewish Film Festival, including "Standing Silent," a powerful documentary on child abuse in the orthodox Jewish community and a effective ad…
More pithy reviews of the Boston Jewish Film Festival fare, including some reflections on entries in the Short Films Competition.
