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Ian Thal

Theater Review: Brown Box Theatre Project’s Gothic “Hamlet”

This exciting look at Shakespeare’s tragedy is a decidedly gothic affair.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Brown Box Theatre Project, Hamlet, Kyler Taustin, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: “But a Forme of Waxe” — Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Romeo and Juliet”

Allegra Libonati has assembled a mostly excellent cast for what at first glance should be an evening of quality Bardic entertainment.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Allegra Libonati, Boston Common, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Gracyn Mix, John Zdrojeski, Juliet, Romeo, Romeo and Juliet

Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Dream of a Midsummer Night

Mortals would be foolish to miss the ASP’s version of Shakespeare’s Dream.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Patrick Swanson, Paula Plum, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Inspires “Desire”

The source material  — and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators — provides an evening of compelling theater.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Desire, tennessee-Williams, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Theater Review: “Homebody” – A Nation in a Reading Nook

Debra Wise’s stellar turn is not only a reflection of her long stage career, but a testament to the breadth of her experience.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Debra Wise, Homebody, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Tony Kushner, Underground Railway Theater

Theater Review: “Everyman” — Reinvented With Zest

Apollinaire Theatre Company has done delightful justice to this zesty rejuvenation of a didactic dramatic chestnut.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, Carol Ann Duffy, Chelsea Theatre Works, Danielle Fauteux Jacques, Everyman

Stage Review: “Sinners” — Theater that Matters

Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Brian Cox, Joshua Sobol, Nicole Ansari, Sinners

Music Review: The Rolling Thunder of Kodō’s DADAN

With each piece, the impressive physicality of Kodō’s drummers becomes even more theatrical.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, DADAN 2017, Kodō

Theater Review: Lincoln in the Shooting Gallery – “Topdog/Underdog” at The Huntington Theatre Company

This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Billy Porter, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Suzan-Lori-Parks, Topdog/Underdog

Book Review: Nuff Said? — “What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing”

 Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Review, Theater Tagged: interviews, Jeffrey Sweet, playwriting, What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing, Yale-University-Press

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