Ian Thal

Theater Review: “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me” – Musically Engaging But Dramatically Weak

September 27, 2015
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This show’s eclectic score is more progressive than what is typical of our determinedly conservative modern musical theater genre.

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Theater Review: “Academy Fight Song” — Cutting the Ivory Tower Down to Size

September 17, 2015
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Membership in academe comes down to those who never wanted to leave the comforts of college or those who see it as a launching pad for scoring big bucks.

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Theater Review: Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” – A Boston Premiere For An American Master

September 14, 2015
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The New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller’s centennial with a superb staging of one of the dramatist’s later works, Broken Glass.

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Theater Review: An Entertaining “Winter’s Tale” — Under the Summer Stars

August 27, 2015
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The Winter’s Tale‘s odd structure and hybrid genre is a challenge to modern directors and audiences alike.

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Theater Review: Double Edge’s “Once a Blue Moon” — Water Worlds

August 17, 2015
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What sets Double Edge Theatre apart from other troupes is that it has always forged an intimate link between the world of physical theater and the world of literature and ideas.

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Theater Review: “Eyes Shut. Door Open.” – Cain and Abel South of Houston Street

August 12, 2015
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The script’s suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic “dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion” plot line.

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Theater Review: Apollinaire’s “Blood Wedding”: A Rural Tragedy on the Chelsea Waterfront

July 24, 2015
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Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding remains edgier than most American fare in this century.

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Theater Review: “The Wakeville Stories” – Theater as Civic Ritual

June 26, 2015
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Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.

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Theater Review: Happy Medium Theatre’s “Dying City” — Inventive Intimacy

June 25, 2015
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Happy Medium Theatre’s powerful production is a testament to how the artists in our area are triumphing over the economic adversity.

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Theater Review: “Three” Equals Zero

June 14, 2015
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In truth, Three is not much of a play at all, but an anthology of “very special episodes” of an unproduced television or web series.

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