American Repertory Theater
As sure as “the crow/Makes wing to the rooky wood,” Mrs. Macbeth is going to fall tragically short when it comes to being an inspirational role model for marginalized females everywhere.
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Energizing, joyful, expert, close to sure-fire, Chasing Magic was a great choice to reopen A.R.T. after the long pandemic shutdown.
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Amir Nizar Zuabi’s engaging drama is a hopeful testament to communication and forgiveness.
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Why are Boston stages reacting so serenely to our current miasmas — pandemical, political, economic, and spiritual.
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The main problem with Gloria is its expository storytelling. Events are mostly announced and described rather than recreated.
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Dave Malloy’s musical version of Moby-Dick shows promise, but he needs to trim plenty of blubber.
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Greater Good is a fiercely compelling piece, confronting its audience with a complex exploration of some of the most pressing issues of our day.
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The playwright supplies a memorable encounter between young and old in the play’s final scene, but it is too late to compensate for the superficiality of the Pirandello-lite antics that have come before.
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.
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Theater Commentary: Who’s Agitating for a “Green New Theatre”?
The arrival of Groundwater Arts suggests the birth of efforts to organize artists and others to press cultural organizations to take meaningful action on the climate crisis.
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