John Kuntz
Given all the chaos and violence around us, isn’t it a mite too late for a subtle play like “Our Town” to be considered a “primal scream?”
The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”
The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
Off the Grid’s The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.
There is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.
ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.
Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.
Clocking in at around three hours, the show is a surreal grab bag filled with gags, skits, and sketches, the whole kooky kit and kaboodle tied up (too) neatly in a paranoid ribbon.
Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities rather than ideas.
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