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Holiday productions

Coming Attractions in Theater: December 2009

By Bill Marx The prospect of holiday cheer on stage is pretty depressing to contemplate after the soporific treacle of Paula Vogel’s PC-crazed “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” which culminates in the unintentionally eye-popping vision of Walt Whitman, dressed as Kris Kringle, visiting a dying Jewish soldier. For those reluctant to take […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Question of Mercy, Avrom Golfaden, Boston University, David-Rabe, Emerson Stage, George Watsky, harvard-university, Holiday productions, Illyria: The Musical, Shulamis, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Where the Magic Happens, Yiddish theatre

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