Theater
Those who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep’s lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.
Don’t miss the “joyous shout and ringing cheer” of this delightfully boisterous version of The Mikado.
“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”
The problem is that John August’s book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.
From The Deep suggests that Boston’s theater community would be better served if it put more of its resources into presenting the work of local literary talent.
Culture Clash’s view of America will discomfort, which is all the more reason that I urge you — strongly — to attend.
George C. Wolfe’s 1986 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the ’90s TV show In Living Color.
In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.
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