Bill Marx
The script softens up the issue of patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.
The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.
Can the smothered idealism of the teachers be rekindled? Will the school be saved if students and faculty join together?
Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.
This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
Bill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren’t given much time to think.
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Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
There will be a public celebration of Margaret Weigel’s life on December 9 at Medford’s Chevalier Theater.
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