Theater
This new musical is charming and lively, but without some renovation its future life is in question.
Edward Albee’s provocative theatrical exercise is far trickier to realize onstage than it is to appreciate on paper.
Do musicals with honorable intentions deserve a pass when it comes to quality?
black odyssey boston is a fearless, funny, and fraught reimagining of Homer’s Odyssey as the story of the African-American diasporic experience.
Cry It Out is a well-done dramedy that suggests that we try harder to let life’s sweet moments linger.
“I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall.”
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.

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