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Theater Interview: “The New Galileos” — The Price of Freedom

April 30, 2022
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“Plays about climate are notoriously difficult , not only because the science is complex and has become politicized, but also because audiences don’t flock to work that shows us the terrifying realities of our world.”

Theater Review: “The Minutes” on Broadway Beguiles and Befuddles

April 29, 2022
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’s new Broadway play features an intriguing premise and a shocking denouement.

Theater Review: “Our Daughters, Like Pillars” — Bearing the Weight

April 26, 2022
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Kirsten Greenidge’s epic comic drama is a spot-on examination of the challenges changing times pose to evolving families.

Theater Review: “Burgerz” — Food Court

April 20, 2022
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Non-binary people have plenty to be angry about these days, but Burgerz is not an attempt to shock or strike back in anger.

Theater Interview: John Bell on Bread and Puppet’s Staging of Aeschylus’s “The Persians”

April 19, 2022
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“The play challenges us to think about those we consider our enemies, and to think of them with compassion and understanding.”

Theater Commentary: A Wacky Vision of Violence — “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus”

April 12, 2022
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Finally, a sign that American theater might be facing the world of violence outside of its usual provincial purview.

Theater Review: “AntigonX” — Sophocles Newly Envisioned, Splendidly

April 6, 2022
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AntigonX shows how a theater company’s admirable dedication to innovation lifts new voices and ideas.

Theater Interview: The Need to Make Theater in Ukraine Today

April 5, 2022
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We live on the stage of my theater now.

Theater Review: “Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends” — “This Whole Going Downhill Thing”

March 22, 2022
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Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends is admirable because it takes contemporary theater into fresh territory — the slow paralysis of the body and the demands this decline makes on caregivers.

Theater Review: “Ocean Filibuster” at A.R.T. — Surfing the Waves of Immersive Science and Art

March 17, 2022
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Ocean Filibuster draws on a marvelous fusion of myth, song, free verse, and science to explore why we are standing at the frightening edge of the cliff of our planet’s survival.

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