CSC pulled out all the stops for its turn at The Tempest, bringing together a cast that is more than up to the challenge of knitting together poignant drama and madcap comedy.
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Cultural Commentary: Arts Institutions, Unions, and the Pandemic
It behooves audiences to be aware of how workers in the arts organizations they frequent are treated and whether management is operating in good faith.
Theater Review: CSC’s “Cymbeline” — The Bard’s Greatest Hits?
The CSC production maintains a sense of romantic adventure throughout, which makes it easier to accept some of the staging’s creative excesses — as well as the loop de loops of the Bard’s plotting.
Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Visceral “Birdy”
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of Birdy is at its best when it focuses on the play’s central relationships.
Theater Review: CSC’s “Richard III” — Divine Devilry
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Richard III is a deft, gripping version of Shakespeare’s vision of malevolence, staged with verve and vision.
Theater Review: “But a Forme of Waxe” — Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Romeo and Juliet”
Allegra Libonati has assembled a mostly excellent cast for what at first glance should be an evening of quality Bardic entertainment.
Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption
There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.
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.
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: Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” — Soldiering On Through the Void
Brooke Adams portrays Winnie as the ultimate smiley face; her husband, Tony Shalhoub, is little more than another prop weathering her on-going babble.