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Jim Petosa

Theater Review: Faux-Darkness — New Rep’s “Ideation”

Playwright Aaron Loeb is spot on when writing about the corporate world where loyalty is maintained through non-disclosure agreements.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aaron Loeb, Ideation, Jim Petosa, New Repertory Theatre

Theater Review: “The Gift Horse” — A Dramatic Contender

Lydia R. Diamond’s dialogue is funny and cutting; when it needs to it digs deep, mining gems of psychological insight.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Jim Petosa, Lydia R. Diamond, New Repertory Theatre, The Gift Horse

Theater Review: New Rep’s “Good” — Disturbing rather than Devastating

The New Rep production is polished, surprising, and certainly hard-hitting.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: CP Taylor, David Greenham, Good, Jim Petosa, Michael Kaye, New Repertory Theatre

Theater Review: “Freud’s Last Session” — Dramatically Repressed

When it comes to dramatic debate, balanced parry and thrust are paramount.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: atheism, C.S. Lewis, Freud's Last Session, Jim Petosa, Mark St. Germain, New Repertory Theatre, Sigmund Freud

Theater Review: Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” – A Boston Premiere For An American Master

The New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller’s centennial with a superb staging of one of the dramatist’s later works, Broken Glass.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arthur Miller, Broken Glass, Jim Petosa, Kristallnacht, New Repertory Theatre

Fuse Theater Review: New Rep Comes up With a Sly and Loose Version of “Assassins”

The fine efforts of the New Rep performers and Jim Petosa’s thoughtful staging can’t solve this musical’s central flaw.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Assassins, Jim Petosa, john-weidman, New Repertory, Stephen-Sondheim

Fuse Interview: New Rep’s “Elephant Man” — A Meditation on Frailty, Celebrity, and Healthcare

Why does John Merrick get a room in the London Hospital for the rest of his life? Because he’s charming and he’s witty, while the pinheads next door to him didn’t fare that well.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Jim Petosa, The Elephant Man, The New Repertory Theatre, Tim Spears

Judicial Review # 8: Making Sense of the “Assassins”

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our eighth session, a discussion about the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Assassins, which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review, Theater Tagged: Assassins, Boston University College of Fine Arts, Jim Petosa, john-weidman, Stephen-Sondheim

Theater Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’

Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb Much attention has rightly been paid to Stephen Sondheim, who has reached the age of 80 and is the greatest composer/lyricist our country has produced. Boston University got into the act by mounting a production of Merrily We Roll Along in the large B.U. Theatre for a five-day run (April 28–May […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music, Theater Tagged: Boston University, Caldwell-Titcomb, Jim Petosa, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen-Sondheim

Theater Review: A Listenable ‘Opus’

“Musicians take all the liberties they can.” — Ludwig Von Beethoven Opus by Michael Hollinger. Directed by Jim Petosa. Staged by the New Repertory Theatre at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, through April 17. Reviewed by Bill Marx In Opus, dramatist Michael Hollinger belies Beethoven’s frustrated observation about the free-wheeling nature of […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Arsenal Center for the Arts, Benjamin Evett, Jim Petosa, Michael Hollinger, New Repertory Theatre, Opus

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