Robert Israel
“You can be certain that when the show begins and you hear “Mack the Knife,” the choreography will suggest scenes of slashing and murdering.”
Adrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
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.
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