Theater
All the prancing about onstage with planks of wood, actors climbing into eight-foot large puppet skeletons, is marvelous to behold, but it makes for an uneven, confusing production.
In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.
A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.
I had the opportunity to see two performances of Peter M. Floyd’s Absence at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
The 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?
“Witness Uganda” is a quintessential American musical — a work of cultural tourism that condemns cultural tourism.
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