Search Results: Helen Epstein
Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.
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This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.
Read MoreStaged readings are a win-win situation for everyone concerned.
Read MoreMotti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
Read MoreThe relationship between a now-single mother and her bright, troubled daughter makes for a convincing, pertinent, and deeply funny play.
Read MoreWhite People by J.T. Rogers. Directed by Anna Brownsted. At Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts, through September 4. By Helen Epstein What can possibly connect a reflective young History professor in New York’s Stuyvesant Town, a disconsolate Southern housewife and ex-homecoming queen, and a demanding Midwestern corporate lawyer? In J.T. Rogers’ powerful drama White People…
Read MoreEver since the Guggenheim got its face-lift a couple of years ago at age 50, Frank Lloyd Wright’s once-controversial museum has become one of my favorite visual arts venues in the city. I like strolling up the spiraling ramp, looking at one picture after another placed in the order that the curator thought the exhibition…
Read MoreThe Chester Theatre Company’s production, directed by Ron Bashford, runs over two hours with nary a dull moment and the actors seem to be having as wonderful a time as the audience.
Read MoreIt would have been easy to make an entire season out of the ideas the Boston Chamber Music Society compressed into one afternoon; as it is, the wealth of material had the audience buzzing during the two intermissions. Some found the multi-media presentation too much of a good thing. I found it exhilarating and challenging…
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Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shop Front in Harvard Square