Company One

Theater Review: “Hype Man” — Art Versus Politics

February 16, 2018
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At a lean ninety minutes long, the play tackles too many big issues to do them justice.

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Theater Review: “Really” — An Absorbing Confrontation With Memory

February 1, 2017
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Company One’s production of this unconventional work is absorbing: this is the kind of exciting theater that we need to see more often.

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Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”

October 27, 2016
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Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.

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Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version

February 5, 2016
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Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.

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Theater Review: Company One’s “Astro Boy” Rockets into an Eye-Popping Adventure

July 21, 2014
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Company One’s production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action they elicit ooohs and aahs from the crowd.

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Theater Review: A First-Rate “Flick” From Company One

March 3, 2014
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In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.

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Theater Review: “How We Got On” — Exhilarating Hip Hop

July 31, 2013
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I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned coming-of-age story told in a refreshing new way.

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Theater Review: “She Kills Monsters” — A Delightful Celebration of Geekery

April 18, 2013
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“She Kills Monsters” provides a constant stream of creative, amusing, and outrageous moments.

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Theater Review: Company One Exhibits a Ferociously Good “Bengal Tiger”

October 22, 2012
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“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.

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Theater Review: Wrestling With Art

August 3, 2012
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Ultimately the evening is NOT about wrestling. It’s about the root, the very nature of art. About the love of craft; about wanting and needing to create.

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