Bill Marx
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.
In “Fat Ham,” Black pain and repressed desire are transformed into a celebration of liberation and empowerment — once the villain du jour, the patriarchy, has been dispatched.
Dramatist Donald Margulies seems to be putting his hand on the heart of the heartland — as well as taking the pulse of a pair of aging boomers.
Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
For a semi-Shavian like myself, the Shaw Festival once again proved that it was the place to be.
This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”
Anna Ziegler’s play is based on a true story that still resonates powerfully: how science (and society) hides uncomfortable truths.
In the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.
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