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Joann Green Breuer

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Avner Holtzman, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Lives, Yale-University-Press

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: ASL, Book of Job, Craig Lucas, Deaf, Dee Nelson, Huntington Theater Company, I Was Most Alive With You

Fuse Views: Southern Uncomfortable

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Dan Collins, Julianne Wick Davis, Kate Davis, musical, Public Theater, Southern Comfort, transgender

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Hungry, Maryann Plunkett, Richard Nelson, The Gabriels Family, The Public Theater

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

Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Abraham Karpinowitz, Eastern European Jews, Helen Mintz, Syracuse University Press, Vilna My Vilna

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

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.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bill Heck, Bill Rauch, Dagmara Dominczyk, Naomi-Wallace, Night is a Room, Signature Theater

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barrow Street Theatre, Duncan Macmillan, Every Brilliant Thing, George Perrin, Jonny Donahoe, Paines Plough, Pentabus Theatre

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review Tagged: Jeffrey Sweet, The O'Neill, The O'Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater, Theater

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arts Emerson, Nalaga'at, Not By Bread Alone

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

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

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Absence, Anne Gottlieb, Bill Mootos, Boston Playwrights' Theater, Joanna Merlin, Kippy Goldfarb

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