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Our critics salute the year's outstanding productions, with some commentary on the state of the art.
The 2025 version of the Revels once again fills historic Sanders Theatre with comedy and music, while at the same time encouraging us to reflect on the things that are important in life -- f…
Two versions of "Hedda Gabler" -- one gratifying, the other gauche.
If John Lahr could learn, even in his eighties, to cut back on his own self-adoration and stop being so damned starstruck, the razzle in his profiles would dazzle all the more.
One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, the drama of Tom Stoppard reflected a distinctive talent -- he wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.
"Fun Home"'s relevance not only lies in how it flawlessly interweaves three storylines that revolve around the same character, but how it dramatizes, with grace, humor, and pathos, a familia…
Returning musicals take another shot at success " with very different outcomes.
Conveying the value of hope and resilience are undoubtedly important, but positing social and civic responsibility is also essential, and "Annie" clearly offers that opportunity.
"Summer, 1976"Â is a cleverly designed snapshot of a deep but fleeting friendship.
"Kim's Convenience" offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family's struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.
The themes of "Lizard Boy" would land more squarely"and more powerfully"with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
The biographer puts far too much emphasis on Sam Shepard's louche life, neglecting to provide much analysis about the value of his stage work, particularly on whether it will endure.
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.
Broadway is being subjected to a steady parade of Hollywood names parachuting into familiar titles, propped up by prestige directors and stratospheric ticket prices.
A generous serving of what theater critic John Lahr calls playwright John Guare's "funhouse-mirror reflection of American life's caprice and chaos in the twentieth and twenty-first centur…
With its visual and emotional impact, "Leonardo! A Wonderful Show about a Terrible Monster" provides an expansive, more inclusive view of what theater can do for children.
Whatever really happened in those hectic weeks of December 1791, this modern take on the creation of Mozart's Requiem might well turn out to have classic possibilities of its own.
The script focuses on the internal struggles that made Eleanor Roosevelt an uncomfortable wife, rather than taking a deeper dive into the moral and progressive vision that made her such an a…
The Berkshire Theatre Group production of "Metamorphoses" is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.
By Robert Israel Sardines (a comedy about death), a one-act, one-man show written and performed by Chris Grace. Directed by Eric Michaud. At the Michael Maso Studio, Huntington Theatre, 264 …
The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.
The Front Porch Arts Collective's engaging revival of Katori Hall's drama comes at a propitious time.
Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn't it a mite too late for a subtle play like "Our Town" to be considered a "primal scream?"
"If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice."
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year's theme was Last Call --Â a loo…
