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Boston Playwrights Theatre

Opera Review: “The Rosenbergs” — A Morally Complicated Tale, Well Told

The Rosenbergs is small in scope but large in ambition; it is an accomplished and moving opera that demands attention.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Boston Playwrights Theatre, Cold-War, Joachim Holbek, Rhea Leman, Steve Provizer, The Rosenbergs (Opera)

Theater Review: “Rhinoceros” on Newbury Street

With conformity on the march, Ionesco’s Rhinoceros remains as timely as ever.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alex Pollock, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Eugène Ionesco, Nael Nacer, Rhinoceros, Suffolk University, Wesley Savick

Theater Review: “Exposed” — A Toothless “Tartuffe” Update

A genuine satirist kicks against all the pricks, relishing that he or she might challenge rather than placate audiences.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annette Miller, Boston Center for American Performance, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Exposed, Jeremiah Kissel, Michael Hammond, political satire, Remo Arialdi, Robert-Brustein, Tartuffe

Theater Review: “Absence” — Movingly Moving Toward the Null Point

The protagonist may necessarily be passive in the face of his or her diminishing mental condition, but art must rage against the dying of the light.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Absence, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Megan Schy Gleeson, Peter M. Floyd

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2012

The year kicks off with few unusual productions — companies are depending on proven New York hits, such as the Yasmina Reza duo, the Tony award-approved “Red,” and “Green Eyes,” though the Tennessee Williams curio tantalizes.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Number, American Idiot, art, Attica and Man of Flesh and Cardboard, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Opera House, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Bread and Puppet Theater, Caryl Churchill, Company One, Conversations with My Molester, Fen, Festen, Gamm-Theatre, God of Carnage, Green Day, Green Eyes, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Man=Carrot Circus, Michael Mack, New Repertory Theatre, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, tennessee-Williams, Whister in the Dark Theatre, Yesmina Reza

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Theater Review: Down Chekhovian Way

A Chekhovian dramatic fabric calls for a tough/tender gift for realism. Getting the balance right is tricky — too much reassurance veers toward easy sentimentality, while excessive punishment pushes the proceedings toward soap opera.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Boston Playwrights Theatre, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jon Lipsky, Sons of the Prophet, Stephen Karam, Walking the Volcano

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2011

A hold-onto-your seat month with some intriguing world premieres, including a musical version of a Korean folktale, an attempt to turn Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound into a rock event, and a cerebral confab featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. By Bill Marx. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Grandage. NT Live screens the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Theater Tagged: Abbey Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Ajax, American Repertory Theater, Bod Clayman, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Cymbeline, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Divine Rivalry, DollHouse, Greek, Hartford Stage, Howard-barker, John Kuntz, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Michael Kramer, New Repertory Theatre, Prometheus Bound, Serj Tankian, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Steven Sater, Stoneham Theatre, Sunfish, Terminus, The Europeans, The Exceptionals, The Hotel Nepenthe, Theresa Rebeck, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, tragedy, Underground Railway Theater, Whistler-in-the-Dark-theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2010

Holiday season is kicking in, which means it becomes harder to find theater that doesn’t set out to warm your heart and melt your mind. Though a Santaland Diary or two remains, the vogue for cynical Xmas shows has run its course. Still, all is not lost when you can still find such extraordinary family […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, Basil Twist, Beasley's Christmas Party, Bob Glaudini, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Celebrity-Series, Charlestown Working Theater, Chick with a Trick, Codes of Conduct, Community Music Center of Boston, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Gina Gionfriddo, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Last Gas, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Najla Said, Naomi-Wallace, New England, New Repertory Theatre, Pamela Bob Sings the Mandel & Lydon Songbook, Petrushka, Portland Stage Company, The Fever Chart, Theater, Two Wives in India, U.S. Drag, Underground Railway Theater, Vengeance is the Lord's

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2010

A whole lot of deconstruction of the classics going on this month, along with productions of scripts by familiar homegrown names, from William Inge and David Mamet to Sarah Ruhl. A visit from a master puppeteer and a show about race that’s “recommended for mature audiences” look intriguing. By Bill Marx The Real Inspector Hound […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Alice vs. Wonderland, art, ArtsEmerson, Blair Thomas, Boston, Boston Marriage, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Bus Stop, Charlestown Working Theater, David Mamet, Five Down One Across, Fraulein Maria, Hard Headed Heart, Huntington-Theatre-Company, ICA, Lyric stage company of boston, Michael Towers, New England, New Repertory Theatre, Nicholas Martin, Perfect Harmony, Publick Theater Boston, Stoneham Theatre, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Real Inspector Hound, The Shipment, Theater, Young Jean Lee

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