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Annie Baker

New York Theater Review: Storytime — “Venus” and “The Antipodes”

Two plays from major American dramatists interrogate how we come up with the stories we tell about ourselves.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Signature Theatre, Suzan-Lori-Parks, The Antipodes, Venus

Fuse Theater Feature: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary Talks about GSC’s “The Flick”

“An Annie Baker pause is about the people themselves, beating themselves up, figuring out what to say next.”

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Preview, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, Gloucester Stage Company, The Flick

Fuse Theater Review: “GSC”‘s “The Flick” — Lots of Pauses, Pregnant and Otherwise

You should see GSC’s The Flick, but be warned that the drama works in spurts and starts

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, Gloucester Stage Company, Marc Pierre, Melissa Jesser, Nael Nacer, The Flick

Theater Review: “The Flick” in New York — A Bold Triumph

The final impression left by The Flick is one of exhilaration.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aaron Clifton Moten, Annie Baker, Barrow Street Theatre, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher, Paul Dervis, Sam Gold, The Flick

Theater Review: Annie Baker’s “John” — A Feminist Black Comedy

Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Bruno Schultz, John, The Signature Theatre Company

Theater Review: A First-Rate “Flick” From Company One

In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Company One, The Flick

Theater Review: New York Theater Roundup — “Clive,” “The Dance and the Railroad” and “The Flick”

By planning ahead, and purchasing one flexpass, I was able to see a trio of plays in New York during a single weekend for well under $200 — a bargain price for world-class theater productions.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Baal, Bertolt Brecht, Clive, Dance and the Railroad, David Henry Hwang, Ethan Hawke, Playwrights Horizon, Signature-Theatre-Company, The Flick, Theater Row

Theater Review: Body Awareness — A Lesson in Human Awareness

This is a play where characters don’t remove their clothes but the walls they’ve built to protect their inner selves.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annie Baker, Body Awareness, Chantal Mendes, Paula Plum, Shirley, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Theater, VT

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2010

October brings in epics from the classics (Shakespeare and Dickens), ghost stories from the classics (Poe, Henry James), a tragicomedy from a classic (O’Neill), and a comedy from a classic (Ben Jonson). Annie Baker, Ethan Coen, and the Rude Mechanicals provide some welcome respite from the tried-and-true. Given the state of the economy and the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 11:11 Theater Company, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Amost an Evening, Annie Baker, ArtsEmerson, Body Awareness, Charlestown Working Theater, Circle Mirror Transformation, Company One, David Edgar, Edgar Allan Poe, Four Places. Ben Jonson, Laurence Senelick, Lyric stage company of boston, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, Robert Hatcher, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Alchemist, The Aliens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Method Gun, The Turn of the Screw, William-Shakespeare

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