Allegra Libonati has assembled a mostly excellent cast for what at first glance should be an evening of quality Bardic entertainment.
Boston Common
Fuse Theater Review: CSC’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” — Plenty Likable
There is much to like in this outdoor production of Love’s Labor’s Lost — the time passes by quickly and there are plenty of smiles along the way.
Fuse News Update: Wisely, Outside the Box Seems to be Downsizing
This is Boston, not Austin.
Fuse Arts Commentary: Outside the [Pricey] Box Festival?
The Outside the Box Festival going to need much more substance to justify its new 3-figure price tag.
Fuse Theater Review: The CSC’s “King Lear” — The Deed Dutifully Done
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC’s version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
Theater Review: A Faint Touch of Evil
Shakespeare’s tragic characters, on the other hand, suffer from the Christian sin of pride: knowing you aren’t God, but trying to become Him—a sin of which any of us is capable. — W. H. Auden on Othello in Lectures on Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare. Directed by Steven Maler. Staged by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company […]
Theater Commentary: Boston’s “Comedy of Errors”
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Directed by Steve Maler. Presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at the Boston Common Parkman Bandstand, through August 16. Reviewed by Bill Marx Shakespeare can be punished by his own success. In “The Comedy of Errors” he juggles two sets of identical twins on stage with the dizzying aplomb […]