Jim Kates

Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious

August 1, 2019
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This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.

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Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion

July 4, 2019
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In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.

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Theater Review: “The Skin of Our Teeth” — As Dark as the Daily News

July 4, 2018
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Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.

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Theater Review: Peterborough Players’s “Ripcord” — Arguing for a Full Life

February 17, 2018
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David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.

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Theater Review: “Every Brilliant Thing” — Two Cheers for Solipsism

February 4, 2018
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A manipulative entertainment that sets out to confuse theater and therapy.

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Theater Review: Viva “Wittenberg” at Peterborough Players

September 1, 2017
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Davalos’s fast-paced wittiness and director Keith Stevens’ deft management of dramatist’s words and dramatic action keep us in stitches.

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Theater Review: “The Whipping Man” — A Secular Haggadah

June 23, 2017
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Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.

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Theater Review: An Exuberant and Dark “Absurd Person Singular”

August 23, 2013
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Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.

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Theater Review: “Laughing Stock” Redux

August 8, 2013
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The current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.

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Theater Review: The Peterborough Players Stage a “Seagull” That Soars

July 25, 2013
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The Peterborough Players have put together a “Seagull” that floats elegantly on nineteenth-century Russian and twenty-first-century American wings, simultaneously bright and dark.

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