Theater
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.
This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.
Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.
James Graham’s new play almost evokes sympathy for the devil. Almost.

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