Theater
There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.
Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.
Penobscot Theatre Company is staging Monica Wood’s moving and thoughtful play about a real life labor dispute in Maine.
This is a wonderful production of an important play that still has a dog in the fight.
Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.
Silent Sky is a moving and thoughtful play; it is well worth the gaze of any serious theatergoer.
Nora Theatre Company’s thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.
Two fine new plays in New York meditate on dealing with mortality.
Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.
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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