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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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Theater Review: Isango Ensemble’s “uCarmen”—A Captivating Version of a Classic

November 16, 2015
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A bewitching South African version of Bizet’s opera — performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.

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Theater Review: Overcoming Silence—”The Love of the Nightingale”

November 15, 2015
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Hub Theatre Company’s production is artfully staged in a challenging, three-quarter round space.

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Theater Review: “Chopin Without Piano”—A Problematic Idea

November 12, 2015
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I wish I could say I was dazzled by the production’s concept.

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Theater Review: “Beautiful”—A Joyous Musical Bio of Carole King

November 7, 2015
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What comes through clearly in Beautiful is the joy Carole King and the other writers took in putting together the songs that captured our hearts.

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Stage Interview: Dramatist Jacqui Parker Talks About How Black Lives Matter: “A Crack in the Blue Wall”

November 4, 2015
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“Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable.”

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