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The Gaaga's humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.
Set designer Sara Brown creates theater wizardry through the assistance of digital tools, not a magic wand.
The Prom's greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
A talented cast does its best to add buoyancy to a script weighted down in palaver.
This pared-down staging of Tony Kushner's 30 year-old masterpiece invites some reflection, even a kind of nostalgia. But blazing through -- with seraphic force -- is the harsh reality of how…
And So We Walked is about the performer finding her roots and that quest is often meandering.
Musical revivals are stealing the show on Broadway this season " some more successfully than others
Over the years I have seen several productions of Coriolanus, and this one is by far the most perfunctory.
The Huntington Theatre Company's co-production of Lynn Nottage's Clyde's is spirited and sassy.
Rejoice, my fellow musical theater geeks, Apple TV's Schimgadoon! is once again taking center stage.
By Olivia Sutton K-I-S-S-I-N-G by Lenelle Moïse. Directed by Dawn M. Simmons. Staged by Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for …
How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.
This is an immigrant story that we've heard over and over again. Still, despite its familiarity, this particular quest for opportunity -- told in a wonderful and often funny mix of Spanish a…
By focusing on dialogue and artistic collaboration, Her Story Is explores what life is like for Iraqis, especially the country's women.
It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.
During his career as the founder and artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence (from 1964 to 1989), Adrian Hall achieved a lasting place in the American theater as a v…
Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.
The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass's script is served au flambé.
George Takei's musical, Allegiance, projects American democracy as it might have become.
Dave Malloy's musical takes us through the personal creative hell of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Some Like It Hot is a terrifically entertaining " and thoroughly modern " reinvention of the classic Hollywood comedy.
Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year haunted by COVID.
At its core, the Revels is about bringing together actors and audience, but there are several stagecraft successes to note this time around
The most mesmerizing characters in this stunningly visual production are brilliant life-size puppets.
