Theater
The most mesmerizing characters in this stunningly visual production are brilliant life-size puppets.
This stunning, brand new production of UK’s Life of Pi is stopping in Cambridge for a month or so before sailing down to Broadway.
In Broadway revivals, Topdog/Underdog is absolutely riveting, while Death of a Salesman feels forced and unconvincing.
The artistic and design team at the Central Square Theater, in partnership with CHUANG Stage, have come up with an effective, thought-provoking 90-minute journey into a depressing aspect of the American story that was (and still is) rooted in xenophobia.
A.R.T Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page are at the helm of this well-meaning but irritating revival.
English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.
In his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.
The story has the earmarks of YA fiction: a community of dysfunctional adults contribute to the plight of alienated kids who, badgered by persecutors their own age, seek to escape their torment.
Like a magic show where you know you’re being duped and enjoy it all the same, Reiser’s act was something you just settled back and enjoyed without analyzing it too much.
Arts Commentary/Interview: The Climate Crisis and Theater — A Playwright’s Perspective
Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?
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