In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?
Melia Bensussen
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.
Fuse 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.
Fuse 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.
Fuse Theater Interview: Israeli Playwright Motti Lerner on Catharsis, Tikkun, “Hard Love,” and Protesting a Play Without Reading the Script
“The working relationship is based on the mutual feeling that all three of us have the same understanding of the purpose of the theatre – to present plays that create a cathartic experience for the spectator, which might open his eyes and his heart to a new consciousness.”