Ian Thal

Theater Review: “Winter Solstice” — The Neo-Nazi Who Came For Christmas

March 5, 2018
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Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice is an important play by a major playwright.

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Theater Review: Regicide in the Chapel — Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Richard III”

February 23, 2018
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.

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Theater Review: “Accidental Death of an Anarchist – The Vexation of Violence

December 6, 2017
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Dario Fo’s dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.

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Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

November 27, 2017
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Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

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Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

November 12, 2017
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Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

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Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

October 31, 2017
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Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

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Theater Review: Did You Hear the One About the Lawyer With the Cellphone? – “Kol’s Last Call”

October 19, 2017
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An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.

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Theater Review: Flat Earth Theatre’s “A Bright Room Called Day”: Illuminating These Dark Times

October 10, 2017
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This staging, in terms of quality, surpasses any previous Flat Earth Theatre production I have attended.

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Theater Review: ASP’s “Exit The King” – When Politics Become Absurd

September 30, 2017
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In Ionesco’s play, society no longer makes sense — even to itself.

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Theater Review: Faux-Darkness — New Rep’s “Ideation”

September 13, 2017
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Playwright Aaron Loeb is spot on when writing about the corporate world where loyalty is maintained through non-disclosure agreements.

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