Robert Israel
The late Larry Coen was a mainstay in Boston theater.
Despite its drawbacks, this is a powerful production that speaks to what is happening today.
When it comes to helping artists make a living, social media turns out to be a mixed blessing.
Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.
The bottom line is that we simply aren’t given a requisite sense of the play’s embrace of tragedy.
“Both poet/playwrights wrote with the same swings between tragedy and farce we live with now in America.”
Men on Boats is a sometimes rollicking, at other times tedious, one-act play.
Israel Horovitz’s latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.
Throughout Sam Shepard’s oeuvre one can find ample evidence of his struggles with demons, some of them distinctively American.
Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.
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