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Theater Review: All Glory to “Gatz” — “The Great Gatsby” Takes the Stage

March 31, 2012
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In “Gatz,” F Scott Fitzgerald’s words come at the audience like bullets because they are so relevant to so much of American life today. And create the kind of catharsis, that peculiar combination of pity and fear, that is the mark of truly great theater.

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Theater Review: Viva The Andersen Project — The Loneliness of Making Art

March 28, 2012
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Director Robert Lepage’s “The Andersen Project” is a masterful meditation on the agonizing process of artistic creation. Few scripts bring the mixed essence of opportunism and magic of show biz together so effortlessly.

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Stage Interview: Israeli Stage and “Apples From The Desert”

March 23, 2012
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Israeli Stage’s readings are consistently the best attended in the Boston area, thus demonstrating that there is a great appetite for Israeli culture beyond folk dance and hummus.

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Theater Interview: “Deported/ a dream play” – A Tale of New England With Global Implications

March 18, 2012
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Many countries, including our own, still have not officially acknowledged that this genocide actually occurred and who was responsible. New England, and specifically the greater Boston area, has one of the largest Armenian populations in the nation.

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Theater Review: “Next to Normal” Takes American Musicals Into the New Millennium

March 16, 2012
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This musical’s challenging, raw, and poignant storyline, along with the stunning work of the SpeakEasy Stage Company cast and designers create a can’t-be-missed, far from normal production.

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Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”

March 11, 2012
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An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.

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Theater Review: NTLive’s “Comedy of Errors” — Lots of Muddle, But Magic As Well

March 3, 2012
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As this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles ‘comedy,’ a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.

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Theater Review: “Monsters!” — A Pleasant Musical about Midlife Crisis

March 2, 2012
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The musical wheels out well-trodden jokes about growing old while supplying all the usual greeting card life lessons (live each moment as if it were your last!).

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Theater Review: Theatrical Time Machines — Wild Swans and Time of My Life

March 2, 2012
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Both productions play around with chronology in order to show the dark side of history, to unmask convenient illusions of social or personal well-being by juxtaposing the myopia of the past with the payback of the future.

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Fuse Theater Interview: Ken Cheeseman on “Bakersfield Mist”

March 1, 2012
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We’re in this virtual reality age now, asking new questions about what art is. What has true meaning and what doesn’t?

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