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Theater Review: “Top Girls” — As Brilliant and Harsh As Ever

May 1, 2018
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Top Girls’ conflicts and political themes seem more relevant than ever in this excellent production.

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Book Review: “Show Trial” — Not Ready for Primetime

April 15, 2018
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Thomas Doherty’s fragmented, stop-and-start-again style dilutes narrative authority and further complicates an already very complicated story.

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Opera Review: BLO’s “Threepenny Opera” — Neither Fish Nor Fowl

March 22, 2018
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It would have been wonderful to have seen either a faithful version of Threepenny Opera in German or a boldly conceived contemporary version.

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Reviewer weighs in on #MeToo

December 20, 2017
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Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, Helen Epstein hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway. 

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Book Review: “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”

November 2, 2017
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De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.

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Theater Review: “At Home at the Zoo” — Edward Albee’s Perfect Pairing

August 19, 2017
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To see a production of this quality in a small theater was a privilege.

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Theater Review: A Dated “Company”

August 16, 2017
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Director Julianne Boyd is faced with a difficult challenge — dramatizing an outdated psychological travelogue.

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Theater Review: Berkshires Stage Round-up — Minimal Cheers

August 9, 2017
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Theater in the Berkshires has now entered a less than sparkling mode with a group of offerings that left me wondering why they were chosen for production.

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Theater Review: A Superb “Clean House” at The Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 25, 2017
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This is a masterful production of Sarah Ruhl’s sparkling update of Commedia dell’arte.

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Theater Review: CTC’s “Skeleton Crew” — The Working Class Blues

July 15, 2017
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Dominique Morisseau’s monologues and dialogues draw you into the details of American working class life.

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