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Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2019
Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
Theater Review: Queen Mab’s “Dream” — Good and Necessary
Queen Mab’s premiere production is an energetic, 80-minute, one-man performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Theater Review: New Rep’s “Oliver!” — Less Boundless Energy, Please
The spirit of Oliver! explodes on stage here, and that is a credit to the ambitions of this company.
Theater Review: Praxis Stage’s “Coriolanus” — Riled-Up Warriors
The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.
Theater Review: “The Purists” — Rapping Out the Blues
With The Purists, Dan McCabe has written a comic drama that not only has a lot to say, but does it with an enormous amount of playful vim and vigor.
Theater Review: “The Lifespan of a Fact” — Truth and Consequences
In a taut 90 minutes, The Lifespan of a Fact zeroes in on some key issues that we’re grappling with as a country — or ought to be.
Theater Review: “Steel Magnolias” — Female Bonding
Over thirty years after it premiered, the script remains touching and funny, with the added merit that it provides a refreshing respite from the sour discourse of 2019.
Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
Theater Review: “Once” — Everything Goes Brilliantly Right
Once is a wonderful musical and the Speakeasy Stage production does exquisitely right by its considerable merits.