Bill Marx
A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare’s hymn to reconciliation.
The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism — less can so easily be less.
“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”
If only “Becoming a Man”‘s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.
Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie?
Set in New York in the mid-’50s, “Trouble in Mind” is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.
The journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
Theater Commentary: Facing Some Hard Truths
The time is overdue for a serious discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don’t expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
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