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Theater Review: “Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education” — An Invitation to Take Action

August 31, 2016
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Among the driving forces behind Anna Deavere Smith’s latest solo work is a call to strengthen “our collective capacity for action.”

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Theater Review: In New York, A World of Women’s Voices

August 24, 2016
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This fledgling stage troupe aspires to raise a call to arms.

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Theater Review: “And No More Shall We Part” — Facing Mortality

August 14, 2016
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This is a beautifully acted but grim 70 minutes of theater, a no-frills look at the dynamics of a struggle about life and death.

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Stage Review: “Songs for a New World” — In the Key of Passion

August 9, 2016
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Summer theater musicals often accentuate the frivolous, but the GSC production of Songs for a New World demands more.

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Theater Review: A Fresh Take on GBS’s “Pygmalion”

August 4, 2016
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The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.

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Theater Review: CSC’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” — Plenty Likable

August 1, 2016
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There is much to like in this outdoor production of Love’s Labor’s Lost — the time passes by quickly and there are plenty of smiles along the way.

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Theater Review: Shakespeare & Company’s Delightfully Loony “Emperor of The Moon”

July 30, 2016
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The Emperor of the Moon is a boisterous bit of family friendly late-afternoon entertainment under Shakespeare & Company’s Rose Footprint Tent.

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Theater Review: At Shakespeare & Company — Tina Packer’s Masterful “Merchant of Venice”

July 28, 2016
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Shakespeare & Company’s staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.

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Theater Review: “Mercury’s Ashes” — A Beautiful Mystery Story

July 27, 2016
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Homophobia may not have been behind Freddie Mercury’s decision to keep the location of his ashes a secret, but it hardly ruins Mercury’s Ashes.

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Theater Review: Apollinaire Theatre Company’s “Hamlet” — Thrilling and Peripatetic

July 25, 2016
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Apollinaire Theatre Company has expanded the possibilities of finding first-rate outdoor Shakespeare in the Boston area.

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