Jim Kates

Theater Review: “The Doctor’s Dilemma” — Problem Solved

August 17, 2017
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The ethical deliberations and the professional backbiting and banter of the doctors fare well in the skilled hands of the director and cast.

Theater Review: “Constellations” — A Drama about the Music of Time

July 7, 2017
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Nick Payne’s fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.

Theater Review: “The Whipping Man” — A Secular Haggadah

June 23, 2017
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Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.

Theater Review: A Stylish “Steel Magnolias” at Peterborough Players

February 16, 2017
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This Peterborough Players production deserves a longer run than it has in the company’s inaugural winter season.

Theater Review: “Mass Appeal” — A Compelling Drama of Ritual

February 3, 2017
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Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.

Theater Review: “Cry Havoc” — The Bard on War, and the Pity of War

September 15, 2016
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Cry Havoc’s message: We expend energy in preparing young men and women for war, but no effort in re-engaging them into the life of not-war.

Theater Review: A Fresh Take on GBS’s “Pygmalion”

August 4, 2016
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The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.

Fuse Theater Review: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” — A Playful Play on Chekhov

July 22, 2016
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike goes on about a half hour too long, but the quality of the acting overcomes the longueurs.

Theater Review: “Annapurna” — A Trip Worth Taking

July 7, 2016
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A two-person engagement like Annapurna demands that mysterious quality from actors that we call “chemistry.”

Theater Review: “Driving Miss Daisy” — Bypassing the Deeper Resonance

June 24, 2016
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This production of Driving Miss Daisy isn’t about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.

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