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.
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?
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.
Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce
This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.
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.
Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen
This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.
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.
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.
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.
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.