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Theater Review: “The Undoing of Prudencia Hart” — Lost in Spaciness

January 21, 2020
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Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.

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Theater Review: “Pass Over” — An Unforgiving World

January 19, 2020
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If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.

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Theater Review: “The Effect” — Beware the Nasty Side Effects

January 16, 2020
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The Effect is about the brain, pharmaceuticals, and how little we know about each.

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Theater Review: “The Cake” — Thoughtfully Baked

January 15, 2020
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Dramatist Bekah Brunstetter sidesteps easy answers and pat revelations to produce a nuanced comedy about people coming to terms with who they are and where they are from.

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Theater Interview: Tony-winning actress Kelli O’Hara — Broadway is not Enough

December 31, 2019
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” I want to try everything, study everything. I just love this work.”

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Arts Commentary: WBUR’s Clogged “ARTery”

December 30, 2019
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Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.

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Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2019

December 28, 2019
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

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Theater Review: A Musical “Moby-Dick” Lumbers from its Seabed at the A.R.T.

December 20, 2019
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Dave Malloy’s musical version of Moby-Dick shows promise, but he needs to trim plenty of blubber.

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Theater Review: Queen Mab’s “Dream” — Good and Necessary

December 17, 2019
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Queen Mab’s premiere production is an energetic, 80-minute, one-man performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Theater Review: The Christmas Revels — American Version

December 17, 2019
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This year’s Revels is more than a parade of Christmas songs and stories that tap deep into America’s European and African past.

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