Helen Epstein
The Barrington Stage Company’s moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.
Educated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors — and to Tara Westover’s own resilience.
On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.
August Strindberg’s Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.
Atung and Moy have a lot to say about American history and culture — acutely informed by the playwright’s 21st century sensibility and identity politics.
The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
The Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.
The Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
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