With The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.
Theater
Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion in Storytelling
Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.
Theater Review: “The Lifespan of a Fact” — Truth and Consequences
In a taut 90 minutes, The Lifespan of a Fact zeroes in on some key issues that we’re grappling with as a country — or ought to be.
Theater Review: “Little Shop of Horrors” — A Fun Romp with an Appetite for Blood
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is giving this nostalgic hokum a spirited production.
Theater Preview: “Buddy” Cianci’s Ghost Returns to Haunt Providence
We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.
Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — Soulless Fan Fiction
When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.
Theater Review: “Cherry Docs” — Healing Hate
David Gow’s earnest, intelligent drama about the fragility of identity, though somewhat glibly reassuring, generates powerful moments in this bare-bones production from the Acropolis Stage Company.
Theater Review: The Wives of Henry VIII Reclaim History in “Six” at the A.R.T.
The new pop musical tells the oft-told tale of uxoricide from the women’s perspective.
Theater Interview: Director Benny Sato Ambush’s Japanese Connection
The highlights of this year’s gathering will be productions of newly discovered or rediscovered works by both Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishima.
Theater Review: “Fall Springs” — Singing Our Way to Extinction
But this is an American musical, so political content (and blame for the way things are) must be kept fuzzy, a strategically-calculated myopia.
