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Theater Review: CSC’s “The Tempest” — A Brilliantly Kinetic Staging

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.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, John Douglas Thompson, John Lam, Steven Mahler, The Tempest

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.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Lyric stage company of boston, Steve Provizer, Unions

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.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Cymbeline, Erik Nikander

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.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Birdy, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Steven Maler

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.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Erik Nikander, Richard III, Steven Maler

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.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Allegra Libonati, Boston Common, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Gracyn Mix, John Zdrojeski, Juliet, Romeo, Romeo and Juliet

Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption

There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Edwin Booth, Jake Broder, John Wilkes Booth, Our American Hamlet, Steve Maler

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Boston Common, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Jason Bowen, Love's Labour's Lost, Obehi Janice, Steve Maler

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Boston Common, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, King Lear, Steven Maler, Will Lyman

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.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Andrei Belgrader, Brooke Adams, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Happy Days, samuel-beckett, Tony Shalhoub

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