Bedlam’s provocative production of The Crucible has a purpose — to urge us all to stand up and shout down the devils in our midst.
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Theater Review: “Choir Boy” — Musical Grace
Few of the numbers in Choir Boy fails to astonish.
Theater Review: “The America Plays” — Aisle of the Dead
Listening to the dead speak, amid the natural grandeur of Mount Auburn Cemetery, is a moving experience.
Theater Review: “The Purists” — Rapping Out the Blues
With The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.
Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion in Storytelling
Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.
Theater Review: “The Lifespan of a Fact” — Truth and Consequences
In a taut 90 minutes, The Lifespan of a Fact zeroes in on some key issues that we’re grappling with as a country — or ought to be.
Theater Review: “Little Shop of Horrors” — A Fun Romp with an Appetite for Blood
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is giving this nostalgic hokum a spirited production.
Theater Preview: “Buddy” Cianci’s Ghost Returns to Haunt Providence
We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.
Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — Soulless Fan Fiction
When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.
Theater Review: “Cherry Docs” — Healing Hate
David Gow’s earnest, intelligent drama about the fragility of identity, though somewhat glibly reassuring, generates powerful moments in this bare-bones production from the Acropolis Stage Company.
