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Theater Review: “Toni Stone” — Winning Season

June 4, 2024
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The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.

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Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — Are We There Yet?

May 30, 2024
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The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism — less can so easily be less.

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Theater Review: Broadway’s “Water for Elephants” – A Counterargument

May 15, 2024
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“Arts Fuse” theater critic Christopher Caggiano, among others, found that the new Broadway musical “Water for Elephants” “has very little going for it.” Let’s agree to disagree

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Theater Interview: Playwright and Director Lydia R. Diamond on “Toni Stone”

May 10, 2024
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“I believe folks coming to the theater will have a great time, they’ll learn about the Negro leagues and about a phenomenal woman.”

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Theater Reviews: New Broadway Revivals of “Cabaret,” “The Who’s Tommy,” and “The Wiz” Vie for Attention in a Crowded Season

May 7, 2024
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The spring season has yielded a sizable crop of musical revivals. But how many of them actually bear fruit?

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Theater Review: “A Strange Loop” — An Exhilarating Musical Loop-de-Loop

May 2, 2024
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This superb Speakeasy Stage Company/Front Porch Collective co-production is emotionally charged and immediate, intent on keeping the material fresh and raw.

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Theater Review: “Clue” on Tour — Silly Stuff Done Well

May 1, 2024
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“Clue,” a whodunit board game-based comedy, rolled the dice and found success by bypassing Broadway and going directly on tour.

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Theater Review: “Springtime for Hades”

April 25, 2024
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It’s an old tale, we know how it’s going to end, but we tell it again all the same

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Theater Interview: GSC’s Rebecca Bradshaw on “Water’s Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays”

April 22, 2024
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“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”

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Theatre Preview: A Chat with Basil Twist — Poetry Wins in “Book of Mountains and Seas”

April 16, 2024
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You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.

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