Theater
The Front Porch Arts Collective’s engaging revival of Katori Hall’s drama comes at a propitious time.
Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn’t it a mite too late for a subtle play like “Our Town” to be considered a “primal scream?”
“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”
Playwright Eboni Booth won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this script, and it is a heartwarming, well-constructed, one-act.
What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”
Once again, the innovative CST/Catalyst Collaborative@MIT project proves that there are inspiring stories of women’s contributions to science that need to be told.
It’s likely, the playwright suggests, that Americans are incapable of getting out of their own way long enough to cooperate in ways that do anything about the challenges that we face as a society and a country, let alone the world.
“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”
The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”
Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call — a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.
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