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Fuse Theater Review: “The Real Thing” — A Play That Resonates with Reality

November 15, 2014
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The Real Thing’s discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.

Theater Review: “Awake and Sing!”? Too Much Bickering

November 15, 2014
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In this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.

Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity

November 7, 2014
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Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.

Theater Interview: Boston Public Works – Seven Playwrights Making a New Road Map for New Plays

November 2, 2014
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Self-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.

Theater Review: “Hedda Gabler” at the Gamm Theatre — Not Subtle, But Lively

October 31, 2014
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Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.

Theater Review: “Bad Jews” — Lots of Sound and Fury

October 31, 2014
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The play’s lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and us.

Theater Review: Beneath the “Ether Dome”

October 28, 2014
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Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.

Theater Review: “A Disappearing Number” — An Encounter With Mathematical Wonder

October 27, 2014
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A Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.

Theater Review: “Much Ado About” Sexting and Social Media

October 25, 2014
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This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults about sexting

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