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Theater Review: “The Hills of California” — The Power of Family Matters

September 27, 2025
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The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.

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Theater Review: “The Mountaintop” — A Room With a View of the Promised Land

September 24, 2025
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The Front Porch Arts Collective’s engaging revival of Katori Hall’s drama comes at a propitious time.

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Theater Review: “Our Town” — An American Classic That Still Holds Up

September 24, 2025
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Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn’t it a mite too late for a subtle play like “Our Town” to be considered a “primal scream?”

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Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

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Theater Review: “Primary Trust” — Dramatizing Acts of Random Kindness

September 20, 2025
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Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.

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Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

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Theater Review: “Silent Sky” Celebrates the Pioneering Women Who Charted the Heavens

September 16, 2025
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Once again, the innovative CST/Catalyst Collaborative@MIT project proves that there are inspiring stories of women’s contributions to science that need to be told.

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Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival

September 11, 2025
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When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call —  a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.

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Theater Review: “Deep Blue Sound” — The Everyday Tragedy of Inaction

September 8, 2025
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It’s likely, the playwright suggests, that Americans are incapable of getting out of their own way long enough to cooperate in ways that do anything about the challenges that we face as a society and a country, let alone the world.

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Theater Interview: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s David Kaplan on “Last Call: The Final Fall Festival”

September 2, 2025
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“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”

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