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Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

March 20, 2023
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How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

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Theater Review: “The Wife of Willesden” — Pleasantly Bawdy

March 6, 2023
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If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.

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Theater Review: “Alma” — A Matter of Justice

February 27, 2023
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This is an immigrant story that we’ve heard over and over again. Still, despite its familiarity, this particular quest for the American Dream — told in a wonderful and often funny mix of Spanish and English — is compelling and interesting.

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International Event Preview: “Where Do You Live?” — Her Story Is Looks at Iraq Today

February 27, 2023
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By focusing on dialogue and artistic collaboration, Her Story Is explores what life is like for Iraqis now, especially the country’s women.

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Theater Review: “Fairview” — A Room With a View?

February 24, 2023
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It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.

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Theater Remembrance: Trinity Repertory Company Director Adrian Hall

February 7, 2023
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During his career as the founder and artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence (from 1964 to 1989), Adrian Hall achieved a lasting place in the American theater as a visionary director.

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Theater Review: “Made in China 2.0” — The Art of Taking Risks

February 3, 2023
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Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.

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Theater Review: “The Art of Burning” — Bonfire of the Vanities

January 29, 2023
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The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass’s script is served au flambé.

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Theater Commentary: George Takei’s “Allegiance” — Taking Yanks to Task

January 16, 2023
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George Takei’s musical, Allegiance, projects American democracy as it might have become.

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Theater Review: “Preludes” — Lost in Inner Space

January 10, 2023
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Dave Malloy’s musical takes us through the personal creative hell of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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