Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.
Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — When Science and Ethics Collide
Informed Consent is the smartest play I’ve seen hit Boston area stages since the new year began.
Theater Review: “Hand to God” — Did the Devil Really Do It?
Askins’ script is an amusing mash-up of sex comedy and supernatural horror parody.
Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping
Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.
Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”
All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.
Theater Review: URT’s “Matchless” & “The Happy Prince” — Enchanting Worlds
The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.
Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism
Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.
Theater Review: “Warrior Class” — Political Tragedy or Farce?
Though Kenneth Lin wrote Warrior Class in 2012, it is easy to see its resonances with the 2016 election cycle.
Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”
Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.
Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Extraordinarily Meta-“Hamlet”
In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.