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A consistently engaging and engaged, insightful, humorous, scarily moving, polished contemporary drama with a premise to die for.
A new year is beginning, so it is as good a time as any to check in with a few actors with Boston roots or performance experience, to explore what it means to pursue the dream of being an actor in 2026.
Is it possible to separate the art from the artist or, in the case of Rhode Island’s Contemporary Theater Company, the artist’s husband?
If there is power in being invited, for the space of 80 minutes, to suspend our fear of where things are going, this show is a place where we can feel safe to do just that.
“Job” is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.
“Library Lion,” wonderfully staged by Adam Theater, marks the arrival of a new and welcome addition to the Boston theater scene.
“Wonder” aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”
Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.
Our critics salute the year’s outstanding productions, with some commentary on the state of the art.
Theater Commentary: Live Theater—An Incomparable Art Form
Protecting live theater, along with the other arts that the NEA has supported, is urgent, and it begins, as it did with me, by loving theater, either as a regular member of the audience or as someone onstage or behind the scenes.
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