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Theater Review: Amid a Smokey Haze, Double Edge Theatre Delivers an Inspirational Warning

July 25, 2026
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Double Edge Theatre revives its 2015 roaming spectacle of ecological grief, political resistance, and communal art.

Theater Preview: Still Dreaming on the Boston Common at 30

July 18, 2026
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company celebrates its milestone season by revisiting A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reaffirming its mission to make Shakespeare a truly public art.

Theater Review: Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” Finds Its Knife-Edge at Gloucester Stage

July 14, 2026
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This crisp revival turns emotional recoil, backward chronology, and elegant restraint into a sharp study of infidelity.

Playwright Interview: “A New Era,” Reconsidered

July 12, 2026
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Playwright Miranda Austen ADEkoje revisits an 1895 gathering of Black women activists, uncovering the tensions, ambitions, and humanity behind a historic coalition.

Theater Review: Arlekin’s “Delirium” Reimagines Ionesco with Visual Flair and Urgency

June 28, 2026
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Arlekin’s high-energy adaptation underscores absurdism’s resonance in an age of conflict.

Theater Review: “The Zionists” — A Bold Debate, Blunted

June 26, 2026
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S. Asher Gelman’s script opens as a rare, bracing political drama before collapsing into conventional family melodrama.

Theater Review: “Black Swan” — Beauty, Madness, and a Misguided Musical

June 19, 2026
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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.

Theater Review: “Bad Books,” Worse Behavior

June 10, 2026
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Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.

Theater Review: “Eureka Day” — Groupthink Gone Viral

June 9, 2026
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Jonathan Spector’s successful satire finds biting comedy—and uneasy truth—in the limits of well-meaning consensus.

Theater Review: Quick Changes, Big Laughs in “The Mystery of Irma Vep”

June 2, 2026
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Gabriel Graetz and Paul Melendy power Charles Ludlam’s camp classic, even as a stripped-down design leaves some comic potential untapped.

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