Ian Thal

Theater Review: ASP’s “Edward II” — The Intimacy of Political Violence

March 3, 2017
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Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.

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Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — When Science and Ethics Collide

February 25, 2017
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Informed Consent is the smartest play I’ve seen hit Boston area stages since the new year began.

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Theater Review: “Hand to God” — Did the Devil Really Do It?

January 12, 2017
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Askins’ script is an amusing mash-up of sex comedy and supernatural horror parody.

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Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping

January 5, 2017
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Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.

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Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”

December 14, 2016
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All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.

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Theater Review: URT’s “Matchless” & “The Happy Prince” — Enchanting Worlds

December 6, 2016
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The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.

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Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

November 19, 2016
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Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

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Theater Review: “Warrior Class” — Political Tragedy or Farce?

October 30, 2016
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Though Kenneth Lin wrote Warrior Class in 2012, it is easy to see its resonances with the 2016 election cycle.

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Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”

October 27, 2016
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Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Extraordinarily Meta-“Hamlet”

October 18, 2016
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In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.

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