Theater

Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

November 27, 2017
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Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain

November 19, 2017
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What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.

Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

Theater Review: “The Revolutionists” — Comedy During the Reign of Terror

November 12, 2017
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Director Courtney O’Connor, the Nora Theatre, and its skilled cast do right by this hilarious historical comedy.

Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem

November 11, 2017
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Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.

Theater Review: “Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show” — Look Forward in Anger

November 10, 2017
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Sleeping Weazel stages a gutsy production of an angry, ugly, and essential history lesson.

Theater Review: A Soaring “Silent Sky” at MRT

November 10, 2017
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I found myself almost wishing the dramatist had written a longer play (a rare desire coming from a theater critic).

Theater Review: Listening to “Our Better Angels”

November 9, 2017
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Is a romantic relationship with someone who is lovely — but mentally ill — worth the effort?

By Request: Out of the Past — Sexual Harassment, Trouble at the Gloucester Stage Company

November 2, 2017
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Let us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.

Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

October 31, 2017
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Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

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