Theater
The actors in the central roles are extremely fine, particularly Kathleen McElfresh’s beautifully nuanced performance as the anguished Bridget O’Sullivan.
Read MoreMay Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
Read MoreBreath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
Read MoreIsraeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Read MoreThe virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.
Read MoreZayd Dohrn’s slightly predictable Muckrakers offers some satisfying twists and turns as it moves toward the inevitable.
Read MoreShakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.
Read MorePlaywright Ken Urban doesn’t seem to have a strong point of view about his thirtysomethings-in-a-muddle; neither does he allow them to change or grow.
Read MoreWhile worth a look for its inspired performances, this Huntington Theatre Company production does not give us Christopher Durang at his madcap best.
Read More“The pain depicted on stage must cut to the bone, inspire a seemingly impossible empathy within me, within the audience.”
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