Theater
The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.
The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
This musical hodgepodge at the American Repertory Theater could be called ‘Let’s Sing About Me (and Me, and Then More About Me).’
Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.
Hype Man is a complex and challenging treatment of race relations in the U.S.– indispensable viewing in these days of Trump.
The moral of Jen Silverman’s yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banality.
Hub Theatre Company’s production bursts with energy, staged with a clear-minded sense of movement and a hand-made quality that generates ample charm and whimsy.
Mother Butterfly’s script shows genuine promise, but the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre’s premiere production falls short.
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