Huntington Theater Company
The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass’s script is served au flambé.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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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.
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Melinda Lopez’s superb new translation of Yerma makes the language of the play approachable, even conversational, without losing the beauty of Lorca’s poetry.
Read MoreYes, Ripcord is candied, but there’s just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.
Read MoreThe effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.
Read MoreAugust Wilson’s dramatized autobiography, thanks to the magnificent actor Eugene Lee, is a stirring experience.
Read MoreMilk Like Sugar cries out for dialogue and confrontations that direct us deeper into the conflicts the young women face.
Read MoreThe Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter’s fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.
Read MoreA recent piece in the New York Times provides further proof of the increasingly pernicious stranglehold marketing exerts on the production of new voices in the theater. By Bill Marx Let’s face it—the fastest growing segment of non-profit hiring in the arts over the past decade or so, marketing, is now pretty much in the…
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Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “Democracy Awakening”