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Lynn Nottage

Theater Review: “Sweat” — Icarus’s Children

For me, Sweat hits its riveting stride in its second half, when the pressures of the strike tests the relationships of its working class characters.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Children of the Sun, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Lynn Nottage, Maxim Gorky, Sweat

Theater Review: New York Stage Round-up — “Indecent,” “Sweat,” and “Bandstand.”

Sweat and Indecent serve as forceful reminders that art matters — as if proof was needed.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Andy Blankenbuehler, Bandstand, Broadway Musical, Indecent, Lynn Nottage, Paula-Vogel, Sweat

Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American, Intimate Apparel, Lynn Nottage, Lyric stage company of boston, Summer l. Williams

Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two

“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensional.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: By the Way Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage, Summer l. Williams, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — On Race and Hollywood

The chief glory of the Lyric Stage production: an ensemble of eight actors that agilely accents the humor dramatist Lynn Nottage utilizes to temper her examination of the darker racial and political subtexts of the period.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: By the Way Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2011

The new year kicks off with some welcome signs of frisky energy, though it would be nice to see more new plays. Respectability is provided by a homage to Rose Kennedy as well as productions of Pulitzer and Tony award-winning scripts. Marionettes and politics arrive via Bread and Puppet and An Exciting Event. As for […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Afterlife: a ghost story, American Repertory Theater, An Exciting Event, Arsenal Center for the Arts, ArtsEmerson, Barnden Jacobs-jenkins, Boston, Bread and Puppet Theater, Charlestown Working Theater, Company One, Decapitalization Circus, Edward Albee, Huntington-Theatre-Company, In the Footprint, Kathrine Bates, Lynn Nottage, Lyric stage company of boston, Neighbors, New Repertory Theatre, Peter Schumann, R. Buckminster Fuller, Rose Kennedy, Ruined, Steve Jockey, The Civilians, The Color of Rose, The Goat or, The History and Mystery of the Universe, The Moondog Madrigal Puppet Show, The Return of Ulysses, The Understudy, Theater, Theresa Rebeck, Thomas Derrah, Who is Sylvia?

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