Theater
With its production of “Charlotte’s Web,” WFT has created a lovely, balanced experience — by turns obvious and full of nuance — that offers life lessons and the value of multigenerational sharing.
A renovated and flexible performance space with unlimited free parking is what every theater company from Boston to Portland dreams of.
The proceedings are continually involving, each of the performers supplying sufficient dramatic weight and interacting as a credible ensemble of characters rather than caricatures.
The play is preachy. But John Lithgow is magnificent.
I’m thinking that a one-person performance of “Hamlet” by a Brit transwoman might get under Trump’s necrotic skin.
“Suffs” bounces through a timeline of conferences, direct actions, interpersonal snits, and self-questioning over whether the entire endeavor is really worth it.
Daniel Okrent’s “Art Isn’t Easy” is an engaging if familiar introduction to one of theater’s most complex figures – though seasoned Stephen Sondheim devotees may find themselves wanting more.
“Rhinoceros” is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.
In his speculative play “The Antiquities,” dramatist Jordan Harrison has no trouble envisioning earthlings in the post-human age.
Come for the frolic and high energy professional stagecraft; stay to experience this creative ensemble’s answer to: Who the hell are we, facing the end?
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