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Theater Review: “Job” — Terminally Online

January 25, 2026
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“Job” is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.

Children’s Theater Review: A Rip-Roaring “Library Lion”

January 7, 2026
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“Library Lion,” wonderfully staged by Adam Theater, marks the arrival of a new and welcome addition to the Boston theater scene.

Theater Review: The Limits of “Wonder”

January 2, 2026
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“Wonder” aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”

Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger

December 25, 2025
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Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.

Theater Feature: Favorite Boston-Area Stage Productions of 2025 — The Year of the Ostrich

December 20, 2025
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Our critics salute the year’s outstanding productions, with some commentary on the state of the art.

Theater Review: Midwinter Revels 2025 — Aglow with Music, Magic, and Hope

December 16, 2025
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The 2025 version of the Revels once again fills historic Sanders Theatre with comedy and music, while at the same time encouraging us to reflect on the things that are important in life — family, love, and the peaceful solitude of a cold winter’s night.

Theater Review: Working Up a “Hedda” Steam

December 13, 2025
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Two versions of “Hedda Gabler” — one gratifying, the other gauche.

Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard

December 2, 2025
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One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.

Theater Review: “Fun Home” — The Fragility of Memory

December 1, 2025
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“Fun Home”‘s relevance not only lies in how it flawlessly interweaves three storylines that revolve around the same character, but how it dramatizes, with grace, humor, and pathos, a familiar human struggle — looking at our parents through adult eyes.

Theater Reviews: Broadway’s Big Revivals — “Ragtime” Reclaims Its Strength, “Chess” Can’t Find Its Footing

November 27, 2025
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Returning musicals take another shot at success – with very different outcomes.

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