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Theater Review: “Working on a Special Day” — A Very Unusual Show

June 23, 2014
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Working on a Special Day is an unusual show in every way, and I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to see it.

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Theater Review: “Cassandra Speaks” — The Voice of a Crusading Journalist

June 17, 2014
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Cassandra Speaks is yet another dazzling vehicle for actor Tod Randolph, who excels in etching brilliant stage portraits of famous, complicated women.

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Theater Review: “Apt. 4D” — Beau Jest’s Sly, Comic Ode to Film Noir

June 15, 2014
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Beau Jest’s playful Apt 4D offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the creativity and imagination of the truly extraordinary theater troupe.

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Theater Review: “A Lie of the Mind” – Trinity Rep’s Excellent 50th Anniversary Gift

June 13, 2014
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Critic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep’s marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.

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Theater Review: “Smart People” — A Sharp Satire of a “Post-Racial” World

June 9, 2014
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Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.

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Theater Review: A Spectacular Russian Staging of “Eugene Onegin”

June 9, 2014
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I was mesmerized by the evocative stage pictures and the straight-at-the-audience, presentational mode of the actors, whose facial expressions and gestures so viscerally conveyed the emotional lives of the characters.

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Theater Interview: Beau Jest Turns 30 — Davis Robinson on Moving into “Apt. 4D”

June 8, 2014
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We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.

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Theater Review: Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” — Spectacle and Sound Swamp Feminism

May 31, 2014
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Women are the dominant force in “Amaluna.” They command the evening’s whirligig of a stage as aerialists, clowns, musicians, dancers, and contortionists.

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Theater Review: “Carrie” — Stephen King Horror Story Morphed into a Ho-Hum Musical

May 27, 2014
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The trio of writers has flattened Stephen King’s gaggle of high school teens into two-dimensional clichés, devoid of any adolescent intensity.

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Theater Review: “The Other Place” — A Memorable Psychological Mystery

May 27, 2014
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“The Other Place” examines the devastating effects of an illness that is becoming far too relevant to our lives.

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