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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).

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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?

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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.

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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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Theater Review: “Kiss” and Don’t Tell

October 30, 2017
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The bottom line is that we simply aren’t given a requisite sense of the play’s embrace of tragedy.

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Theater Review: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

October 27, 2017
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We are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.

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Theater Review: “A Guide for the Homesick” — Modern Uncertainty

October 27, 2017
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Coming of age in today’s world is a tumultuous and confusing experience; Ken Urban’s script expertly taps into these modern anxieties.

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Book Review: Patti Smith’s “Devotion” — Not Devoted Enough

October 25, 2017
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The short volume promises a glimpse into Patti Smith’s intuitive creative process — but disappoints.

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Theater Review: A Rousing “Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep

October 20, 2017
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An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen’s still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.

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Theater Review: Did You Hear the One About the Lawyer With the Cellphone? – “Kol’s Last Call”

October 19, 2017
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An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.

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