When confronted with a seemingly intractable quandary, playwright Larissa FastHorse — and her characters — take the easy way out.
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Theater Review: “Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)” — Distanced Beauty?
TRIPTYCH (Eyes of One on Another) serves up a cool emotional package.
Theater Review: “Linda Vista” on Broadway Upends the Male Midlife Crisis
Dramatist Tracy Letts’s new play is raw, funny, and intensely personal.
Theater Review: Praxis Stage’s “Coriolanus” — Riled-Up Warriors
The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.
Theater Review: “Cambodian Rock Band” — The Rhythms of Betrayal
At its best, Lauren Yee’s vibrant play with music offers a compelling exploration of survivor guilt, the urge for revenge, the deforming power of the past, and the impossibility of finding justice for crimes against humanity.
Theater Review: “Jordan” — Technology Packs a Sucker Punch
Cyberspace begins to look like a hostile place for women, as dangerous as a frat party. Females log-on at their peril.
Theater Review: “Trayf” — By the Book of Numbers
Evaluated as an empathy workout, Trayf never asks us to break a sweat.
Book Review: “Protest! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics” — Pavlovian Calls to Action
Liz McQuiston writes that the posters collected in her book are meant to “pay tribute to the liberating concept of hard-won ‘freedom of speech’ throughout history.”
Theater Review: “SpongeBob” Tour in Boston Is Hardly Absorbing
This is a non-union production, and that means the actors are being paid a fraction of what they would be getting if the tour were offering performers a union contract.
Theater Review: A Shattering “Slave Play” Rattles Broadway
Jeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.