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Huntington Theater Company

Theater Review: “The Art of Burning” — Bonfire of the Vanities

The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass’s script is served au flambé.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Adrianne Krstansky, Huntington Theater Company, Kate Snodgrass, The Art of Burning

November Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Angela-Hewitt, BR Klassik, Bright Shiny Things, Glenn, Glenn Rifkin, Hannah Collins, Hannah Kendall, Henry Beston, Huntington Theater Company, Hyperion, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, Lisa Fischer, Love songs, Phoenix, Resonance Line, Resonance Lines, Riccardo Muti, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Stewart Goodyear, Susan Miron, The Outermost House, Witch

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.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Dan McCabe, David Greenham, Huntington Theater Company, The Purists

Theater Review: “Yerma” — The Tragic Power of Desire

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.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Huntington Theater Company, Melia Bensussen, Melinda-Lopez, Yerma

Theater Review: “Ripcord” — Bittersweet Geriatrics

Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there’s just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annie Golden, David Lindsay-Abaire, Huntington Theater Company, Nancy E. Carroll, Ripcord

Theater Review: “I Was Most Alive With You” — Ambition is Not Enough

The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: ASL, Book of Job, Craig Lucas, Deaf, Dee Nelson, Huntington Theater Company, I Was Most Alive With You

Theater Review: “How I Learned What I Learned” — August Wilson’s Indelible Lessons

August Wilson’s dramatized autobiography, thanks to the magnificent actor Eugene Lee, is a stirring experience.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: August-Wilson, Eugene Lee, How I learned, Huntington Theater Company, Todd Kriedler

Theater Review: “Milk Like Sugar” — Vivid Snapshots of Confused Lives

Milk Like Sugar cries out for dialogue and confrontations that direct us deeper into the conflicts the young women face.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American teen pregnancy, Huntington Theater Company, Kirsten Greenidge, Milk Like Sugar

Theater Review: A Magnificent “Betrayal”

The Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter’s fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Betrayal, Harold-Pinter, Huntington Theater Company

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2010

A 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 […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Boston, Brandeis Theater Company, Central Square Theater, Clifford Odets, Daniel Fish, Emerson Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Lydia Diamond, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Theater, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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