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Theater Review: “Coyote on a Fence” — Drama on Death Row

April 6, 2017
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In a surprisingly quick 100 minutes, this smart play forces us to confront our own preconceived notions about good and evil.

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Theater Review: “Made in China” — Puppets Made to Charm and Alarm

April 5, 2017
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Wakka Wakka’s puppetry skills are highly impressive, its staging inventive and undeniably entertaining.

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Theater Commentary: Resist Trump? Boston’s Stages Opt Out

April 5, 2017
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Resistance, at least in Boston theater, is futile.

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Theater Review: Mad Horse Theatre’s Talky Journey to the Afterlife

April 1, 2017
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Is the long trip through Purgatory worth the time? Not sure.

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Theater Review: “Chill” — Millennial Melodrama

March 29, 2017
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Chill is a solid enough attempt to dramatize a millennial coming-of-age story, but it is reluctant to probe very deeply into the guts of the zeitgeist.

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Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption

March 29, 2017
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There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.

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Stage Review: “Sinners” — Theater that Matters

March 29, 2017
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Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.

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Theater Review: “Papermaker” — Elegy for a Maine Mill Town

March 22, 2017
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Penobscot Theatre Company is staging Monica Wood’s moving and thoughtful play about a real life labor dispute in Maine.

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Theater Review: Lincoln in the Shooting Gallery – “Topdog/Underdog” at The Huntington Theatre Company

March 20, 2017
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This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.

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Book Review: Nuff Said? — “What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing”

March 20, 2017
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 Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.

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