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Ian Thal

Theater Review: ASP’s “Edward II” — The Intimacy of Political Violence

Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' ShakespeareProject, Charlestown Working Theater, Christopher Marlowe, David R. Gammons, Edward II

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, Chelsea Theatre Work, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Informed Consent

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David R. Gammons, Hand to God, Robert Askins, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping

Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alistair McDowall, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Brilliant Adventures, Chelsea Theatre Works, Danielle Fauteux Jacques

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Allyn Burrows, Mayra Lowry, The Tempest

Theater Review: URT’s “Matchless” & “The Happy Prince” — Enchanting Worlds

The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Debra Wise, Matchless, The Happy Prince, The Underground Railway Theater

Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: and Journeys in Teaching, Carrie J. Preston, Columbia University Press, Ezra Pound, Learning To Kneel: Noh, modernism, Noh

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Dawn M. Simmons, Kenneth Lin, Lyric stage company of boston, Warrior Class

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alice Birch, Company One, Radical feminism, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Summer l. Williams

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Doug Lockwood, Hamlet, Marianna Bassham, Omar Robinson, Richard Snee, William-Shakespeare

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