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Theater Review: “Becoming Cuba” — A Sugary Historical Melodrama

April 16, 2014
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Dramatist Melinda Lopez’s “Becoming Cuba” holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.

Theater Feature: Savyon Liebrecht — In Residence at Israeli Stage With Two Plays About Freud and his Family

April 13, 2014
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Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage — two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres here as workshop productions.

Theater Review: “Nalaga’at” (Please Touch) — A Daring Dramatic Struggle Against Absence

April 10, 2014
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Theater is a public art. And yet, the irony here is that the most profound communication between individuals can be the least publicly communicable.

Theater Interview: Silent Film Comedy Staged Live — Jakop Ahlbom Talks about “Lebensraum”

April 7, 2014
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“Buster Keaton’s imagination and ideas are more surrealistic than Chaplin’s, and his stunts are astonishing in terms of their demanding technique, even today”.

Theater Review: “In Between” — An Amusingly Serious Look Into the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

April 5, 2014
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Multi-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and Palestinian Moslem father born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.

Theater Review: Plays New and Old Back to Back and Reel to Reel

April 4, 2014
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Fort Point Theatre Channel made a call for submissions for a new play to serve as a companion piece to “Krapp’s Last Tape.” The result: a performance of Samuel Beckett’s classic with the world premiere of “The Archives” by Skylar Fox.

Theater Review: “Brundibár” and “But The Giraffe!” Serious Theater for Young People

April 2, 2014
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The Underground Railway Theater production shows that sometimes children’s theater is capable of a moral depth (perhaps even a fearlessness) that adult theater often avoids.

Stage Preview: See Me, Hear Me — Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble

March 29, 2014
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Israel’s Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble, whose name translates to “Do Touch,” is on a U.S. tour that included a side visit to the White House.

Theater Review: A Languid “Seagull” at the Huntington Theatre Company

March 27, 2014
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I do not remember disliking the characters in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” as much as I did in this production.

Theater Review: Beached in the Living Room — “The Whale”

March 19, 2014
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Unlike much of what comes through the new play development pipeline, “The Whale” proffers a coherent narrative structure — the result is a well-crafted, somewhat edgy, domestic tragedy.

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