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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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Theater Review: “Silent Sky” — Cosmic Wonder, Captured

March 17, 2017
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Silent Sky is a moving and thoughtful play; it is well worth the gaze of any serious theatergoer.

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Theater Review: “Precious Little” — Prospecting Inner Treasures

March 11, 2017
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Nora Theatre Company’s thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.

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Theater Review: Two New York Plays on Mortality and Living the Good Life

March 10, 2017
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Two fine new plays in New York meditate on dealing with mortality.

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Theater Review: “Grand Concourse” — You Gotta Have Faith

March 8, 2017
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Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.

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Theater Review: “The Night of the Iguana” — A Creature Feature

March 4, 2017
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The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.

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