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Theater Review: “Let the Right One In” — Me and My Vampire

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors Shakespeare Company, Christopher V. Edwards, Leah Hohauser, Let The Right One In, Mishka Yarovoy

Comedy Review — Paul Reiser at the Cabot

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.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Paul Reiser, stand-up comedy

Theater Review: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” — A Stirring Dramatic Experience

Despite some missteps and miscasting bumps along the way, this staging faithfully captures playwright August Wilson’s searing poetic vision.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Huntington-Theatre-Company, Joe-Turners-Come-and-Gone, Lili-Anne Brown, Robert Israel

Theater Reviews: On Broadway — Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living”

Two stirring dramas hit Broadway, one weightier than the next

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Cost of Living, Leopoldstadt, Martyna Majok, tom-stoppard

Theater Interview: Performer Bill Irwin – Channeling Samuel Beckett

“Samuel Beckett’s work speaks to me because he’s a very visceral writer. And, because I have training as a clown, I think of him as a natural clown.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bill Irwin, On Beckett, samuel-beckett

Theater Review: “The Thin Place” — Nowheresville

An experimental drama, no matter how tantalizing, has to come up with a payoff that makes its bewildering journey worth it. Lucas Hnath’s doesn’t.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Gloucester Stage Company, Lucas Hnath, The Thin Place

Theater Review: “Ada and the Engine” — A Free-Spirited Young Female Math Wiz in Victorian England

You don’t have to be a math wiz to enjoy Lauren Gunderson’s engaging historical drama, which has been effectively staged by director Debra Wise.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ada and the Engine, Central Square Theater, Debra Wise, Kortney Adams, Lauren Gunderson, Mishy Jacobson

Theater Review: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” — Dear Lord, Pray for Them

It shouldn’t be surprising that Heroes of the Fourth Turning is monotonously ironic. No happy warriors for Christ here.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Marianna Bassham, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Will Arbery

Theater Review: “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” — “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

Anna Deveare Smith’s examination of racism in America remains powerful, 30 years on.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Anna Deavere Smith, Taibi Magar, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992

Theater Review: “Paradise Blue” — Hit the High Notes

This dark and jazzy noir drama would be compelling if it just focused on dramatizing a jazz artist’s quest for artistic perfection.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Dominique Morisseau, Elise Joyner, Gloucester Stage Company, Logan Pitts

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