Joann Green Breuer

Theater Comment: Richard Nelson’s “The Apple Family Plays” — An Edenic Experience

December 11, 2013
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Dramatist Richard Nelson’s language is plain poetry, which passes as prose. It is conversation, as another poet hymned, transmogrified.

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New York Theater Review: “Domesticated” — Morally Untenable

December 10, 2013
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What feels absent in Bruce Norris’s “Domesticated” is some sort of moral center to its familiarly skewed, down sliding spiral of relationships.

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Theater Review: “King Lear” — Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Monumental Achievement

October 11, 2013
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Director Bill Rauch’s concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.

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Theater Review Diary: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — A Worthy Theatrical Adventure

October 11, 2013
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.

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Fuse Film Review: An Awkward But Important “Orchestra of Exiles”

November 25, 2012
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With his biopic “Orchestra of Exiles,” director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.

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Movie Review: “My Dad is Baryshnikov” at the BJFF

November 17, 2012
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The film asks: what are you going to believe, the facts or your lying eyes? The truth is that we do not always want to confess.

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Fuse Movie Reviews: BJFF Short Film Competition & “Life in Stills”

November 15, 2012
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A collection of short films and a documentary at The Boston Jewish Film Festival serves up plenty of decision, determination, devotion and delight.

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Fuse Film Review: Two at BJFF — “We Are Not Alone” and “In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm”

November 12, 2012
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It can be a long wait for the end of the world, even though it lies only a week away, to wit, from the beginning to the end of the Israeli film “We Are Not Alone.”

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Theater Impressions: Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” — Diane Paulus Turns “The Tempest” Into a Circus

May 19, 2012
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A.R.T artistic director Diane Paulus, entrepreneur extraordinaire, seems to have plucked impulse for character and meandering plot from a watered (down) idea of The Tempest.

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Theater Review: NTLive’s “Comedy of Errors” — Lots of Muddle, But Magic As Well

March 3, 2012
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As this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles ‘comedy,’ a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.

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