Theater
There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
Adrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
Dramatist Rajiv Joseph probes the gentle sides of masculinity as well as the intertwined power of beauty and terror.
The White Card‘s examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice is an important play by a major playwright.
Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.
Lost Laughs is an absorbing examination of the dark side of American celebrity.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.

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