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Ian Thal

Theater Review: “Winter Solstice” — The Neo-Nazi Who Came For Christmas

Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice is an important play by a major playwright.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, Brooks Reeves, Chelsea Theatre Works, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Winter Solstice

Theater Review: Regicide in the Chapel — Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Richard III”

Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Richard III, Robert Walsh, Steven Barkhimer, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: “Accidental Death of an Anarchist – The Vexation of Violence

Dario Fo’s dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Alexander Castillo-Nuñez, Daniel Boudreau, Dario Fo, James Peter Sotis, Praxis Stage

Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli Stage, Renana Raz, The Hearing

Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Central Square Theater, Lauren Gunderson, Nora Theatre Company, The Revolutionists

Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Charlestown Working Theater, imaginary-beasts, Juli Crockett, Matthew Woods, Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

Theater Review: Did You Hear the One About the Lawyer With the Cellphone? – “Kol’s Last Call”

An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli Stage, Joshua Sobol, Kol's Last Call

Theater Review: Flat Earth Theatre’s “A Bright Room Called Day”: Illuminating These Dark Times

This staging, in terms of quality, surpasses any previous Flat Earth Theatre production I have attended.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Bright Room Called Day, Dori A. Robinson, Flat Earth Theatre, Tony Kushner

Theater Review: ASP’s “Exit The King” – When Politics Become Absurd

In Ionesco’s play, society no longer makes sense — even to itself.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Eugène Ionesco, Exit the King, Richard Snee

Theater Review: Faux-Darkness — New Rep’s “Ideation”

Playwright Aaron Loeb is spot on when writing about the corporate world where loyalty is maintained through non-disclosure agreements.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aaron Loeb, Ideation, Jim Petosa, New Repertory Theatre

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