Theater
Director Diane Paulus’s high-spirited A.R.T. adaptation of Ionesco’s anti-conformist play sometimes overplays its comic business, but John Turturro’s scruffy, strident, anguished Berenger gives the production its necessary mix of horror, humor, and desperate resistance.
Double Edge Theatre revives its 2015 roaming spectacle of ecological grief, political resistance, and communal art.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company celebrates its milestone season by revisiting A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reaffirming its mission to make Shakespeare a truly public art.
This crisp revival turns emotional recoil, backward chronology, and elegant restraint into a sharp study of infidelity.
Playwright Miranda Austen ADEkoje revisits an 1895 gathering of Black women activists, uncovering the tensions, ambitions, and humanity behind a historic coalition.
Arlekin’s high-energy adaptation underscores absurdism’s resonance in an age of conflict.
S. Asher Gelman’s script opens as a rare, bracing political drama before collapsing into conventional family melodrama.
Despite striking choreography and a tour-de-force lead, the A.R.T.’s adaptation of Black Swan can’t escape the film’s excesses—or its own thin score.
Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.
Jonathan Spector’s successful satire finds biting comedy—and uneasy truth—in the limits of well-meaning consensus.
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