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Theater Review: Kneehigh Wows With “Tristan & Yseult” — Love, Raucous and Romantic

March 8, 2015
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This exhilarating Tristan & Yseult shakes us out of our role as passive observers and reminds us of the euphoria and the heartbreak love can bring.

Fuse Theater Review: “Grounded” — The Costs of a Long-Distance War

March 6, 2015
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Celeste Oliva’s performance is so raw, we experience every doubt, every fear, and watch her confidence slowly evaporate under pressure.

Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

March 2, 2015
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The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

Theater Review: Apollinaire Theatre Company Stages a Lyrical Trip To “Greenland”

February 25, 2015
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In dramatist Nicolas Billon’s enigmatic but involving Greenland, the audience is called on to actively reconstruct what occurred in the characters’ lives.

Theater Review: “The King of Second Avenue” — Did Somebody Say Putz?

February 14, 2015
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The King of Second Avenue’s one-joke shtick wears out long before the end of this 90-minute musical.

Theater Review: “The Second Girl” — A Sensitive Portrait of the Irish Working Class

February 7, 2015
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The actors in the central roles are extremely fine, particularly Kathleen McElfresh’s beautifully nuanced performance as the anguished Bridget O’Sullivan.

Theater Review: “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” — A Memorable Homecoming

February 4, 2015
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May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.

Theater Review: “Breath & Imagination” — Inspirational, Then and Now

February 1, 2015
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Breath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.

Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”

January 31, 2015
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Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.

Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant

January 20, 2015
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The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.

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