The main problem with Gloria is its expository storytelling. Events are mostly announced and described rather than recreated.
Diane Paulus
Theater Review: The Sense of an “Endlings”
The playwright supplies a memorable encounter between young and old in the play’s final scene, but it is too late to compensate for the superficiality of the Pirandello-lite antics that have come before.
Theater Review: Not So “ExtraOrdinary”
This musical hodgepodge at the American Repertory Theater could be called ‘Let’s Sing About Me (and Me, and Then More About Me).’
Theater Review: “Jagged Little Pill” — A Relevant and Rocking Brew
In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.
Theater Review: Playing “The White Card”
The White Card‘s examination of white philanthropy and racism stays well within the comfort zone.
Theater Review: “Burn All Night” — Party Like It’s 1999
Burn all Night is a pretty damp squib coming from one of the country’s major regional theaters.
Theater Commentary: “Trumpismo avant la lettre” and the Elliot Norton Awards
Hypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
Fuse Stage Review: In The Body of the World — Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Worlds
This is a rich evening of theater because it takes up social and psychological problems that aren’t ordinarily addressed on our stages.
Theater Review: “Waitress” the Musical — An Enjoyable Slice of Down-Home Self-Discovery
A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it’s close to ready for the Broadway big time.
Fuse Theater Review: “The Last Two People on Earth” — Singin’ in the Tsunami
An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.