Debra Wise

Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

March 20, 2023
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How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

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Theater Review: “Ada and the Engine” — A Free-Spirited Young Female Math Wiz in Victorian England

October 1, 2022
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You don’t have to be a math wiz to enjoy Lauren Gunderson’s engaging historical drama, which has been effectively staged by director Debra Wise.

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Theater Review: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” — Memories of a Cad

August 19, 2017
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Israel Horovitz’s latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.

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Theater Review: “The Midvale High School Fiftieth Reunion” — Pleasant Remembrance of Things Past

June 14, 2017
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Alan Brody’s play is a pleasant valentine, and it will likely find a life in regional and community theaters.

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Theater Review: “Homebody” – A Nation in a Reading Nook

May 2, 2017
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Debra Wise’s stellar turn is not only a reflection of her long stage career, but a testament to the breadth of her experience.

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Theater Review: URT’s “Matchless” & “The Happy Prince” — Enchanting Worlds

December 6, 2016
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The Underground Railway Theater serves up an hour and fifteen minutes of enchantment.

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Theater Interview: “Mistero Buffo” — Seriously Funny

March 22, 2016
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Socialism is no longer a discredited word, and Fo brings an impish sense of divine comedy to the clash between the haves and the have nots.

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Theater Review: Boxed In — “Yesterday Happened: Remembering H. M.”

May 9, 2012
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Dramatist and director Wesley Savick faces a number of fascinating but formidable theatrical challenges, and the generally compelling Yesterday Happened (how could it not be, given its story?) takes an honorable, visually striking swipe at the problems.

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