Theater
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.
Jess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.
The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.
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.
The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.
Liars and Believers have been creating, conceptualizing, and rehearsing this show for eighteen months—and the seasoning has paid off.
A bewitching South African version of Bizet’s opera — performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.
Hub Theatre Company’s production is artfully staged in a challenging, three-quarter round space.

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