Allyn Burrows

Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”

December 14, 2016
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All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.

Theater Review: “Can You Forgive Her?” — Not Really

April 12, 2016
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Gina Gionfriddo’s would-be black comedy about the American worship of money and status is a misfire on all levels.

Theater Review: “The Winter’s Tale” — A Problem Play, Solved

December 24, 2015
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The ASP’s superb production of The Winter’s Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.

Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Romeo & Juliet — Just the Tragic Story

October 17, 2013
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production is a fine start to the company’s tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement — for this company, story and the actor’s craft trump directorial conceits.

Theater Review: A Timely ‘Timon of Athens’

May 28, 2010
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This Shakespearean drama is savage and sour, its astringent vision of anger as the sole motive for living anticipating the death’s head satire of Swift, Céline, Thomas Bernhard, and Samuel Beckett. Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare. Directed by Bill Barclay. Presented by Actors’ Shakespeare Project at the Midway Studio, Boston, MA, through June 13,…

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