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Huntington Theater Company

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

Fuse 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

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2010

By Bill Marx The coming month offers some unusual examples of theater. Finished with “exploding” Shakespeare, the American Repertory Theater has decided to present the American classics unabridged. Produced by the Elevator Repair Service, “Gatz” is an evening of drama that revolves around a complete reading of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Political […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 4:48 psychosis, All My Sons, American Repertory Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, Carny Knowledge, Company One, Fabuloso, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Gamm-Theatre, Gatz, Gee's Bend, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Indulgences, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nation, NT Live, The Good Negro

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2009

By Bill Marx Somewhere an enterprising graduate student is working on a trenchant study of the correlation between holiday stage entertainment and the American economy. When things were looking bright and profitable the shows became cynical and comic, with mischievous elves placing whoopee cushions under our delusions of good cheer. Now that unemployment is high […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Civil War Christmas, American Repertory Theater, Best of Both Worlds, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston-Conservatory, Charlestown Working Theater, Donald Margulies, Huntington Theater Company, John Kuntz, Lyric stage company of boston, Machinal, November theater picks, Out on the Edge, Paula-Vogel, Shipwrecked!, Theater Offensive, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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