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Theater Review: “Really” — An Absorbing Confrontation With Memory

February 1, 2017
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Company One’s production of this unconventional work is absorbing: this is the kind of exciting theater that we need to see more often.

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Theater Review: The Lyric Stage Company is not “Afraid of Virginia Woolf”

January 30, 2017
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Edward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.

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Theater Review” “Intimate Exchanges” — Semi-furious Comic Froth

January 26, 2017
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It’s good fun and, for a while at least, it’s interesting to watch the actors fulfill the play’s impish demands.

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Theater Review: Mad Horse Theatre’s “The Nether” — Through a Glass, Darkly

January 25, 2017
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Jennifer Haley’s play is compelling and timely because it forces us to face facts, actual and alternative.

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Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt

January 23, 2017
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Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.

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Theater Review: “Trick or Treat” — A Domestic Horror Show

January 22, 2017
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A less skilled playwright might have gone for the obvious and focused on mercy-killing and the ravages of Alzheimer’s.

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Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen

January 17, 2017
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This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.

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Theater Review: “Hand to God” — Did the Devil Really Do It?

January 12, 2017
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Askins’ script is an amusing mash-up of sex comedy and supernatural horror parody.

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Theater Review: “The Making of a Great Moment” — Not So Much

January 10, 2017
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The Making of a Great Moment comes off as flawed entertainment

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Theater Review: “Brilliant Adventures” — Realism Goes Time-Tripping

January 5, 2017
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Brilliant Adventures is an intriguing combo of realism and fantasy by an obviously talented dramatist.

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