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Ian Thal

Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2017

Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, David Greenham, Ian Thal, Robert Israel

Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2016

Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, Evelyn Rosenthal, Ian Thal, Kamela Dolinova, Robert Israel

Fuse Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2015

Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, Evelyn Rosenthal, Ian Thal, Robert Israel

Theater Review: “The Whole World” — The Monsters Are Us

The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Deb Martin, German Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, Ian Thal, Ingrid MacGillis, Karl-Heinz Ott, Marianna Bassham, Robert Kropf, Theresia Walser, Thomas Kee

Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2014

Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bill-Marx, Brundibár, But The Giraffe!, Comedy of Errors, Fences, Ian Thal, In the Summer House, Into the Woods, Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project, Krapp's Last Tape, Poets' Theatre, Robert Israel, Smart People, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Captialism and Socialism With a Key to The Scriptures, The Lie of the Mind, The Real Thing, The Whale, The World Fixer, Under Milk Wood

Fuse Theater Review: Best Stage Productions of 2013

Fuse Theater critics pick some of the outstanding shows of the past year.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: An Iliad, Driving Miss Daisy, Ian Thal, In the Heights, Iris Fanger, Mies Julie, Pygmalion, Robert Israel, Roberta Silman, The Glass Menagerie, Trojan Women (After Euripides), Who's Hungry

Theater Review: “Valentine Trilogy” Has a Lot of Passion but Could Use More Smarts

So what’s a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ian Thal, Nathan Allen, Skylar Fox, The Circuit Theatre Company, The Valentine Trilogy

Theater Commentary: An Anything-But-Banal Love Story

The play does not address Hannah Arendt’s rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Martin Heidegger, though the dramatist’s title hints that it is the banal truth of the irrationality of love.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Hannah Arendt, Ian Thal, Martin Heidegger, Savyon Liebrecht, The Banality of Love

Judicial Theater Review #1: The Overwhelming at Company One

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community-making power of interactivity. This is our first session. Review by Ian Thal Review by Timothy Longman Review by Peter Cohen Artist response by Shawn LaCount Summary […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review, Theater, World Books Tagged: Africa, Company One, Ian Thal, J. T. Rogers, Peter Cohen, Rwanda, Shawn LaCount, The Overwhelming, Timothy Longman

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