Melia Bensussen
Common Ground Revisited infuses new life into J. Anthony Lukas’s book, but it doesn’t offer any easy answers. The play fills in the fine details, deepening our understanding of how we got here and how far we have to go.
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In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?
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Melinda Lopez’s superb new translation of Yerma makes the language of the play approachable, even conversational, without losing the beauty of Lorca’s poetry.
Read MoreThis thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.
Read MoreNora Theatre Company’s thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.
Read MoreThis is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
Read MoreThe ASP’s superb production of The Winter’s Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.
Read MoreIn this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.
Read MoreDramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage — two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres here as workshop productions.
Read MoreMotti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
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