Charlestown Working Theater

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

February 1, 2019
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Imaginary Beasts’ Winter Panto 2019 proffers plenty of enthusiasm, wit, and panache.

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

September 14, 2018
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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.

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

October 31, 2017
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Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

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

March 3, 2017
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Marlowe’s skill in maintaining a high level of complexity put the history play on a sophisticated footing.

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Theater Review: “Wild Williams” — Wildly Imaginative

June 21, 2016
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Wild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.

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

June 8, 2014
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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.

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

November 15, 2013
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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.

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Theater Preview: When Puppets Go Hungry

September 29, 2013
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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.

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Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2011

August 31, 2011
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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.”

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Coming Attractions in Theater: August 2011

July 29, 2011
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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.

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