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Caryl Churchill

September Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, American Discoveries, Caryl Churchill, Daniel Traub, David-Grossman, fantasy, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. and Other Shorts, Jonathan Blumhofer, Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, More Than I Love My Life, New Focus Recordings, Ralph P. Locke, Susan B. Apel, Susan Miron, TCG Books, The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers, Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own, Valerie June

Theater Review: A Raucous and Moving “Cloud 9”

Expert performers and taut direction make this Cloud 9 a natural high.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Christopher Caggiano, Cloud 9, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Nora Theatre Company

Theater Review: “Escaped Alone” and “Come and Go” — Forms of Disconnection

To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.

By: Mary Paula Hunter Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Come and Go, Escaped Alone, Gamm-Theatre, samuel-beckett

Theater Review: “Top Girls” — As Brilliant and Harsh As Ever

Top Girls’ conflicts and political themes seem more relevant than ever in this excellent production.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Culture Vulture, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Liesl Tommy, Top Girls

Theater Review: New Rep’s “A Number” Doesn’t Add Up

The laughter in the production serves a useful purpose: it distract us from the serious narrative problems in Caryl Churchill’s script.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Number, Caryl Churchill, Clay Hopper, Cloning, Dale Place, Nael Nacer, New Repertory Theatre

New York Theater Round Up: “Intimacy,” “Stage Kiss,” and “Love and Information”

A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Intimacy, Love and Information, Sarah-Ruhl, Stage Kiss, Thomas Bradshaw

Theater Review: “The After-Dinner Joke” — How We are Out-Sourcing Our Consciences

British dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Charlestown Working Theater, The After-Dinner Joke, Whistler in the Dark Theatre

Stage Review: A Tangy “Vinegar Tom”

The Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of “Vinegar Tom” — if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn’t served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Vinegar Tom, whistler-in-the-dark

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

Theater Review Round-up: Our Man in London

It should be pointed out that in London it is possible to see more shows in a limited time than one can do in the United States. Why? Because it has long been the sensible practice to stagger weekday matinees. By Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare first, of course. The British quite rightly never tire of “Hamlet.” […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: “The Black Album, All's Well That Ends Well, Anton Chekhov, Arcadia, Bridge Project, Caldwell-Titcomb, Carrie's War, Caryl Churchill, Collaboration, Cottesloe, Dreams of Violence, Duet for One, Dysfunctional Family, England People Very Nice, Ethan Hawke, Francesca Annis, Hamlet, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mirren, Henry Goodman, J. B. Priestley, Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Katori Hall, Lyttleton, Mark Rylance, Matt Charman, Max Stafford-Clark, Michael Grandage, Michael Morporgo, National-Theatre, Nazis, Nicholas Hytner, Olivier, Phèdre, Racine, Rebecca Hall, Richard Bean, Richard Strauss, Richard Wilbur, Ronald Harwood, Sam Mendes, Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, Sir Richard Eyre, Stefan-Zweig, Stella Feehily, Ted Hughes, The Cherry Orchard, The Mountaintop, The Observer, The Silent Woman, The-Winters-Tale, Three More Sleepless Nights, tom-stoppard, War Horse, William Shakeseare, Wyndham Theatre

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