Joann Green Breuer

Book Review: Hebrew Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik — Not the Whole Story

February 13, 2017
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We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.

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Theater Review: “I Was Most Alive With You” — Ambition is Not Enough

June 16, 2016
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The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.

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Fuse Views: Southern Uncomfortable

April 1, 2016
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You know we have come a long way when, just like everyone else, transsexuals can have their own mediocre musical.

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Fuse Stage Review: Richard Nelson’s “Hungry” — The Terrible Beauty of Theater

March 29, 2016
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Richard Nelson’s family members talk to each other, not to us. We are privileged to be permitted to listen in.

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Book Review: “Vilna My Vilna” — A Moving Memorial to the Lodestar of Yiddish Culture

January 2, 2016
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Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster

November 24, 2015
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Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.

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Theater Review: “Every Brilliant Thing” — Scrambles the Genres, Beautifully

December 23, 2014
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Every Brilliant thing is evidence, which we may need, that life matters, and that theatre matters.

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Fuse Book Review: The O’Neill and the Transformation of Modern American Theater — Personality and Process

June 14, 2014
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In this book, personality trumps process, although The Eugene O’Neill’s Theater Center’s purpose is, at its source, process.

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Theater Review: “Nalaga’at” (Please Touch) — A Daring Dramatic Struggle Against Absence

April 10, 2014
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Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.

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Theater Commentary: On “Absence” and the Presence of Understudies

February 27, 2014
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I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

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