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Charlestown Working Theater

Theater Review: imaginary beasts’ Winter Panto 2019 — Joyful Nonsense

Imaginary Beasts’ Winter Panto 2019 proffers plenty of enthusiasm, wit, and panache.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Charlestown Working Theater, Erik Nikander, imaginary-beasts, Winter Panto 2019

Theater Review: A Wonderful “Journey to the Center of the Stage”

The Beau Jest Moving Theater staging succeeds at conjuring up the genially comic spirit of the late Larry Coen, a bounteously talented actor and director.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Beau Jest Moving Theater, Charlestown Working Theater, Journey to the Center of the Stage, Larry Coen

Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Charlestown Working Theater, imaginary-beasts, Juli Crockett, Matthew Woods, Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

Theater Review: ASP’s “Edward II” — The Intimacy of Political Violence

Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' ShakespeareProject, Charlestown Working Theater, Christopher Marlowe, David R. Gammons, Edward II

Theater Review: “Wild Williams” — Wildly Imaginative

Wild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aimez-Vous Ionesco?, Beau Jest Moving Theater, Charlestown Working Theater, Davis Robinson, The Pronoun I, The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde, Wild Williams

Theater Interview: Beau Jest Turns 30 — Davis Robinson on Moving into “Apt. 4D”

We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Apt. 4D, Beau Jest Moving Theater, Charlestown Working Theater, Davis Robinson

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

Fuse Theater Preview: When Puppets Go Hungry

Hunger is hunger but each hungry person experiences it in his or her own way. That insight is at the heart of the remarkable, socially engaged toy theater production Who’s Hungry.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Preview, Theater Tagged: Charlestown Working Theater, puppet theater, Puppets, toy theater, Who's Hungry, Who's Hungry Santa Monica

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2011

Every September proffers an explosion of productions; as usual, my eclectic picks, driven by my prejudice for the new. There are few world premieres among the openers this season, aside from the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Arts Emerson’s presentation of The Foundry Theatre’s “How Much is Enough.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: All The Journeying Ways, Arts Emerson, Belle Linda Halpern, Bread and Puppet Theater, Candide, Charlestown Working Theater, Claudia Dey, Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, Curt Columbus, Delusion, Exquisite Corps Theatre, Geoffrey Nauffts, His Girl Friday, How Much is Enough: Our Values in Question, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John Malkovich, John-Guare, Kathleen Cahill, Laurie Anderson, Man = Carrot Circus, Mary Zimmerman, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Next Fall, Once in a Lifetime, Portland Stage Company, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Salem Theater Company, Scott Alarik, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Foundry Theatre, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, The Morini Strad, The Odyssey, The Persian Quarter, The-Bacchae, Trinity Repertory Company, Trout Stanley, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, Willy Holtzman

Coming Attractions in Theater: August 2011

A busy month of theater, especially for off-speed, postmodern romances, while old-timers such as the Gershwins and Tennessee Williams receive some attention as well.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: Audra McDonald, Bad Daddy: The Musical, Bakersfield Mist, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Charlestown Working Theater, Dipika Guha, Hopper's Ghosts, Jeff Zinn, John Kolvenbach, Loretta LaRoche, Love Song, Molly Ivins, Oberon, Payomet Peforming Arts Center, Period of Adjustment, Porgy and Bess, R, Red Hot Patriot, Rick Cipes, Shakespeare & Company, Stephen Sachs, Stoneham Theatre. Lighten Up!, Suzan-Lori-Parks, tennessee-Williams, The Betrothed, Tina Packer, Touched, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

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