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Fuse Theater Review: “The Snow Queen”—Sluggish Holiday Entertainment

December 11, 2015
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Thematically, The Snow Queen i suggests that maturity does not mean you have to do without heartfelt childishness.

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Theater Review: “The Shepherds’ Singularity”—Time Travel Meets Christmas

December 10, 2015
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The Shepherds’ Singularity‘s playful combination of science fiction and invention will surely incite thoughtful questioning and genuine wonder.

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Theater Review: “Buyer & Cellar”—In Barbra Streisand’s Enchanted Village

December 8, 2015
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This one-man comic extravaganza about the dizzying spell of celebrity is a welcome respite from the annual bombardment of holiday joyrides.

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Theater Interview: Staging “Beowulf” for the Holidays

December 7, 2015
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“Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination.”

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Theater Review: At Israeli Stage—Alma Weich Places a “Price Tag” on Violence

December 2, 2015
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The timeliness of this staged reading made for one of the most heated and engaged talk-backs for any of the presentations in Israeli Stage’s six-year history.

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Theater Review: “Hard and Fast”—But Not All That Clear

December 1, 2015
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Jess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.

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Theater Review: A Second Look at the “Confederacy”

November 26, 2015
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The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster

November 24, 2015
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Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.

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Theater Review: “A Confederacy of Dunces”—A Genial Comic Uprising

November 22, 2015
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The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.

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Theater Review: “Who Would Be King”—A Bible Story Retold, Entertainingly

November 19, 2015
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Liars and Believers have been creating, conceptualizing, and rehearsing this show for eighteen months—and the seasoning has paid off.

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