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Karen MacDonald

Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done

An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Karen MacDonald, Paula Plum, Robert Israel, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Children

Theater Review: “Happy Ending” — A Dark Comedy About Terminal Cancer

Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alice Duffy, Anat Gov, Bret Silverman, Culture Vulture, Guy Ben-Aharon, Happy Ending, Israeli Stage, Jaronzie Harris, Karen MacDonald, Maureen Keiller, Nancy E. Carroll, Will LeBow

Theater Review: “Ulysses On Bottles” — Floating More Questions Than Answers

Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Arts Emerson, Gilad Evron, Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli Stage, Jeremiah Kissel, Karen MacDonald, Ulysses on Bottles, Will Lyman

Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux

We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Aidan Parkinson, Alvin Epstein, Benjamin Evett, Cherry Jones, Christopher Lydon, David Gullette, Dylan Thomas, Erica Funkhouser, Karen MacDonald, Lawrence Senelick, Lloyd Schwartz, Poets' Theatre, Robert Scanlan, Thomas Derrah, Under Milk Wood

Theater Feature: Creating the Soundscape for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

Supplementing Eugene O’Neill’s high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Music, Theater Tagged: Eugene O'Neill, Karen MacDonald, Long Day's Journey into Night, New Repertory Theatre, Scott Edmiston, Will Lyman

Coming Attractions in Theater: April 2010

Any month that includes an attempt to get kids into the poetry of Shakespeare, inspirational women, and talking chickens looks fairly promising. By Bill Marx 1: Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World by Kevin G. Coleman. Directed by Jenna Ware. Presented by Shakespeare and Company at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, MA, […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Act a Lady, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Black Box, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Charlestown Working Theater, Company One, Flat Earth Theatre, Jason Slavick, Jordan Harrison, Karen MacDonald, Kevin Mullins, Le Cabaret Grimm, Lois Roach, Mary's Wedding, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, On This Moon, OrigiNation Dance Troupe, Pamela Gein, Portland Stage, Robert Hewett, Roman Conquest, Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stephen Massicotte, terry-byrne, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, The Emancipation of Mandy and Miz Ellie, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Performance LAB, The Syringa Tree, Theatre on Fire, Trinity Repertory Company

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