Jim Kates

Theater Review: “The Man of Destiny” — A Shavian McGuffin

George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.

Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.

Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.

The ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors fare well in the skilled hands of the director and cast.

Nick Payne’s fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.

Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.

This Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company’s inaugural winter season.

Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.

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