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Melia Bensussen

Theater Review: “Common Ground Revisited” – Revivifying History

Common Ground Revisited infuses new life into J. Anthony Lukas’s book, but it doesn’t offer any easy answers. The play fills in the fine details, deepening our understanding of how we got here and how far we have to go.

By: Jacqueline Houton Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Common Ground Revisited, Jacqueline Houton, Kirsten Greenidge, Melia Bensussen

Theater Review: “We All Fall Down” — Flat

In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Huntington Theatre Comany, Lila Rose Kaplan, Melia Bensussen, We All Fall Down

Theater Review: “Yerma” — The Tragic Power of Desire

Melinda Lopez’s superb new translation of Yerma makes the language of the play approachable, even conversational, without losing the beauty of Lorca’s poetry.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Huntington Theater Company, Melia Bensussen, Melinda-Lopez, Yerma

Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce

This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Deborah Salem Smith, Faithful Cheaters, Mary Paula Hunter, Melia Bensussen, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: “Precious Little” — Prospecting Inner Treasures

Nora Theatre Company’s thoughtful production of Precious Little will encourage you to dig a little deeper into yourself.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Madeleine George, Melia Bensussen, Nancy E. Carroll, Nora Theatre Company, Precious Little

Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen

This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Doll's House, Bryony Lavery, Henrik Ibsen, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Melia Bensussen

Theater Review: “The Winter’s Tale” — A Problem Play, Solved

The ASP’s superb production of The Winter’s Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Allyn Burrows, Melia Bensussen, The-Winters-Tale

Theater Review: “Awake and Sing!”? Too Much Bickering

In this production, intractable conflicts occasionally bubble to the surface, but too often they are buried beneath family squabbling.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets, Melia Bensussen, Will LeBow

Theater Feature: Savyon Liebrecht — In Residence at Israeli Stage With Two Plays About Freud and his Family

Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage — two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres here as workshop productions.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Dear Sigmund and Carl, Freud's Women, Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli Stage, Melia Bensussen, Savyon Liebrecht

Theater Review: “Hard Love” — A Timely Exploration of a Bitter Religious Rift

Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Review, Theater Tagged: Hard Love, Israeli Stage, Melia Bensussen, Motti Lerner

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