Robert Israel
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.
Many have surrendered to Joy Harjo’s undeniable shamanistic charms and classify her as a national treasure.
Madeleine George’s uneven 90-minte one-act comedy/drama borrows heavily on Greek mythology to zip up the misadventures of a cluster of suburban women in New Jersey,
“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”
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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