Long stretches of the evening ask the audience to listen to annoying children’s voices in the dark.
Anne-Washburn
Theater Review: “Mr. Burns” at the Lyric Stage — Not so Electrifying
Anne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.
World Theater: Sucked Dry, or Let Romania Speak for Itself
By Bill Marx Earlier this month, Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, stoked up the cultural consternation machine when he implied that American writers are too provincial to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. American literary life is “too isolated, too insular” he opines, its writers don’t translate particularly well and they aren’t […]