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Theater Review: Women Rule at Canada’s Stratford Festival

September 10, 2013
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While luminary thespians and film stars such as Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer have trod the Stratford Festival boards, let me sing the praises of two actresses: Martha Henry and Michelle Giroux.

Theater Review: A Devilishly Good “Major Barbara” at Canada’s Shaw Festival

September 8, 2013
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The quality of this production of Major Barbara and the seriousness which with the Shaw Festival addresses every aspect of theater makes the long trip from Boston to Niagara-on- the-Lake well worth the while.

Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part Two

September 6, 2013
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Dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher didn’t become a working adaptor until the mid-1990s. He saw that some of his playwright friends were doing it and he thought: “Why not me?”

Theater Review: Peterborough Player’s “Talley’s Folly” — Embraceable Jew

September 5, 2013
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The pleasure of Talley’s Folly is in its details, the give-and-take of the dialogue, the smaller and larger revelations they tease out of each other, the characterization of the two human creatures dancing their dance.

Theater Review: An Exuberant and Dark “Absurd Person Singular”

August 23, 2013
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Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.

Theater Review: A Superb Staging of “This Is Our Youth” — A Perceptive Vision of American Muddle

August 20, 2013
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In this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.

Theater News: Two by Wharton — “The Quicksand” and “The Looking Glass”

August 16, 2013
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If you’ve been thinking of visiting The Mount, the sumptuous writer’s retreat Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires at the turn of the twentieth century, now is the time.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 16, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.

Fuse Theater Views: “The Bridges of Madison County” — A Matter of Inconsistency

August 15, 2013
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Nothing is going to be done about the appearance of the review in the Boston Globe. The reasoning is that, because the newspaper didn’t send its own critic, it hadn’t broken the ban. This is inconsistent and disingenuous.

Theater Review: A Romp Through This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival

August 15, 2013
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We stirred in a number of scrappier shows at more experimental venues and were treated to Edinburgh’s wild and wonderful arts extravaganza.

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