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Theater Review: “Blasted” — A Splendidly Visceral Wake-up Call

September 7, 2016
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There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.

Fuse Theater Review: “Company” — What We Sing About When We Sing About Love

September 5, 2016
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There’s a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.

Theater Review: “About Clarence & Me” — Dreams of Friendship

September 2, 2016
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About Clarence & Me looks tenderly … perhaps too tenderly …at some pertinent contemporary issues.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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