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Theater Review: Nora Theatre Company’s “Emilie” — Where History, Feminism, and Science Fiction Meet

September 16, 2014
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At its deepest level, Emilie invokes the quest we all undertake to make sense of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.

Theater Review: Cut and Slash Done With Panache — Lyric Stage Delivers a High-Caliber “Sweeney Todd”

September 13, 2014
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To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.

Theater Review: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” — Is This Meal Really Necessary?

September 11, 2014
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When it comes to race relations, America has a lot on its plate — there is no good reason to serve leftovers.

Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux

September 6, 2014
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We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.

Fuse Theater Review: In NYC — “The Last Days of Cleopatra” + “Nothing Normal”

September 4, 2014
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Although the production of The Last Days of Cleopatra is at times a bit hard to follow, patient audience members will be rewarded by a profound dramatic payoff.

Theater Review: “A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline” — An Enjoyable Homage to a Legend of Country Music

September 4, 2014
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A Short Walk with Patsy Cline leaves you wanting more. It will send you — back or for the first time — to Cline’s own recordings.

New York Theater Review Notes: Tennessee Williams and Hotsy Totsy Burlesque

August 28, 2014
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A charming, thoughtful one-man homage to writer Tennessee Williams and a hilarious burlesque spoof of TV’s Mad Men.

Theater Review: A Superbly Gritty Staging of August Wilson’s “Fences”

August 26, 2014
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Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.

Theater Review: An Uneven “Texas Trilogy”

August 23, 2014
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There are some fine moments in Re:Group Theatre’s production of the epic A Texas Trilogy, but there are also many limitations.

Theater Review: “The Voysey Inheritance” — A Masterpiece About Fraud, Capitalism, and Family

August 21, 2014
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The Voysey Inheritance comes to the Peterborough Players with distinction, and this production is persuasive evidence that it belongs in a wider repertory of contemporary theater.

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