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?”
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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.”
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The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
Read MoreOff the Grid’s The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.
Read MoreThere is little doubt in my mind that this powerful production of Blasted will be one of the high points in Boston theater this year.
Read MoreASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
Read MoreActors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.
Read MoreAttempting 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.
Read MoreClocking 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.
Read MorePlaywright 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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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard