Robert Israel
Set designer Sara Brown creates theater wizardry through the assistance of digital tools, not a magic wand.
A talented cast does its best to add buoyancy to a script weighted down in palaver.
And So We Walked is about the performer finding her roots, and that quest is often meandering.
The Huntington Theatre Company’s co-production of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s is spirited and sassy.
“We take the audience on a journey that’s not part of a traditional approach to opera.”
The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass’s script is served au flambé.
Despite some missteps and miscasting bumps along the way, this staging faithfully captures playwright August Wilson’s searing poetic vision.
“Samuel Beckett’s work speaks to me because he’s a very visceral writer. And, because I have training as a clown, I think of him as a natural clown.”
Steve Stern’s novel about the Jewish expressionist painter Chaim Soutine is more informative than it is engaging.
Theater Remembrance: Trinity Repertory Company Director Adrian Hall
During his career as the founder and artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence (from 1964 to 1989), Adrian Hall achieved a lasting place in the American theater as a visionary director.
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