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Classical Album Reviews: Petrenko conducts Elgar, Britten’s “Saint Nicolas,” and “Italian Postcards”

One of Vasily Petrenko’s most successful Elgar releases; there’s an edge to the Crouch End Festival Chorus’ performance of Britten’s Saint Nicolas ; Quartetto di Cremona’s new album is nothing if not overflowing with Mediterranean personality

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Avie, BBC Concert Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple, Kathryn Rudge, Onyx, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Signum Classics, The Quartetto di Cremona, Vasily Petrenko

Theater Review: Finding Hope in Isolation — “Dream Boston,” Episodes 1-5 @ The Huntington Theatre

In this innovative series, the Huntington Theatre Company has charged 11 local playwrights to imagine a future vision of Boston, post-pandemic, when “we can once again meet and connect in our city.”

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Brenda Withers, Dream Boston, Ezra Haber Glenn, McKim, The Huntington Theatre Company

Theater Review: “The Tattooed Man Tells All” — Memories of a Survivor

Peter Wortsman has made a valuable contribution with this play; it is a rare theatrical account about how living through the Holocaust shaped survivors.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Holocuast, Peter Wortsman, Silverthorne Theater Company, The Tattooed Man Tells All

Theater Review: A Raucous Zoomified “Much Ado” — “Thou Art Muted, Don Pedro”

Hub Theatre’s virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing recognizes Zoom’s potential for farce and leans into it: this is a rollicking delight of a show that refuses to take itself seriously, to everyone’s benefit.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bryn Boice, Erik Nikander, Hub Theatre Company of Boston, Much Ado About Nothing

Theater Review: “On Beckett / In Screen” — Bill Irwin Honors Samuel Beckett

Bill Irwin’s homage to Samuel Beckett explores what makes the writer so fascinating, even inspiring, for those who appreciate the knockabout beauty of his despair.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bill Irwin, On Beckett / In Screen, Steve Feeney

Theater Feature: An Interview with Benny Sato Ambush on Directing the Virtual Reading of Anthony Clarvoe’s “The Living”

“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Anthony Clarvoe, Benny Sato Ambush, Hanife Schulte., The Living

Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Kaplan, Longing Lasts Longer, Penny Arcade, Tennessee William Theater Festival

Theater Commentary: Boston Stages — Running from Reality?

Are our theaters indifferent, craven, or complicit? Take your pick.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Andrei Kureichik, Arlekin Players ​Theatre, Living Newspaper

Theater Review: “Seneca Falls” – A History of Women’s Suffrage, Tongue-in-Cheek

The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jean Ann Douglass, Jess Chayes, New Play Exchange, Seneca Falls

Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”

As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: 6 Feet Apart All Together, All Together, Double Edge Theatre

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