We were reminded of how difficult it is to create an evening-length’s choreography without a storyline, musical structure, or a well-developed concept
Mary Paula Hunter
Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre Group’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” — Surreal Meltdown
The WTG production succeeds largely because it heightens the absurdity of a play that takes a comic look at catastrophe.
Theater Review: “The Wolves” — Theater of the Prosaic
Perhaps the theatre of millennials will resemble Reality TV, resistant to suggestive metaphor and the rewards of complex narration.
Favorite Dance Performances of 2017
A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.
Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain
What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.
Dance Review: Festival of South African Dance — Sheer Exhilaration
A festival of Gumboot and Pantsula at Rhode Island College featured a large cast of virtuosic dancers and engaging musicians.
Dance Review: Faye Driscoll — Dull Deconstruction
Faye Driscoll’s muddled version of taking artifice apart is far too familiar; we’ve done it all before, seen it more than once.
Theater Review: Wilbury Theatre’s Splendid “Caretaker”
Wilbury Theatre proves that an arts organization can grow while pushing an experimental agenda.
Theater Review: “Fuente Ovejuna” — An Underwhelming Revival
Lope de Vega’s classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority — and won –deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.
Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce
This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.