In the process of exploring the ideas that shaped Lorraine Hansberry’s understanding of her art and the world, the volume confirms the writer’s relevance during these troubled but potentially transformative times.
Theater
Theater Review: “Play On! Othello” — A Painful and Invigorating Update
You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.
Theater Review: “Mud Season Mystery: The Lodger” — The Game’s Afoot, On Zoom
Director Jess Chayes has done all that is humanly possible to stage a lively live production under Zoom constraints.
Theater Review: “The Catastrophist” — Celebrating Science
The Catastrophist is an opportunity to begin processing our experience with a pandemic that has fundamentally changed our lives in ways we cannot yet fully comprehend.
Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, Perfectly
This is a great work, more linear than Tom Stoppard’s earlier dramas, yet filled with such intelligence and compassion that it will be read and seen for years and years and, perhaps, over time be regarded as his richest, most haunting play.
Theater Review: “A Brimful of Asha” — Trying to Bridge the Generation Gap
The conversation between Ravi and his mother is funny, engaging, and often illuminating; their real life bond is palpable as the pair try to reconcile the young man’s hopes and dreams with his Indian heritage.
Theater Review: “The Pink Unicorn” — Hugging the Cactus
SpeakEasy Stage Company has (once again) chosen a bold script for its audience.
Theater Review: “Solitaire Suite” — Strange Things Flashing in the Night
The show is made all the more powerful by the fact that we’ve now spent 12 months enduring Covid and four years of science denial and “alternative facts.”
Theater Feature: Eggtooth Productions’ “Stagehand” — Game-Theater Takes CyberStage
What will the response be to this innovative marriage of Zoom theater and video gaming? Some viewers will welcome the mash-up, others will not.
Arts Remembrance: Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021
It is difficult to think of a harder-working actor or one more devoted to his craft.