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Congratulations to Gloucester Stage's new artistic director Rebecca Bradshaw for mounting the regional premiere of this interesting script, a kitchen sink comedy/drama that is anything but r…
The Lehman Brothers is epic in its proportion and ambitions, so it is ironic that it sacrifices opportunities to probe troubling topics.
Anna Ziegler's play is based on a true story that still resonates powerfully: how science (and society) hides uncomfortable truths.
Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward's well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.
In the Actors' Shakespeare's Project's likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.
This American Repertory Theatre co-production gets so many of "Evita"'s elements right -- now all it needs is the musical's combative soul.
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.
