Nora Theatre Company

Theater Review: “Journey to the West” — A Marvelous Adventure

December 13, 2016
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Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation provides a delightful evening of tall-tale storytelling that reverberates with deeper meanings amid a cross-cultural context.

Theater Review: Nora Theatre Company’s “Marjorie Prime” — A Futuristic Misfire

September 19, 2016
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Marjorie Prime explores the complex connections generated among four family members as they attempt to make sense of grief.

Theater Review: Bedlam’s Transfixing, Twinned Twelfth Nights

June 23, 2016
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There is nothing quite so exhilarating as watching Shakespeare done right – except, perhaps, watching one of his plays done right, twice.

Theater Interview: Bedlam Doubled — Director Eric Tucker on Twelfth Night/What You Will

June 17, 2016
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“What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?”

Theater Review: “Arcadia” – Winding the World Up … And Down

April 8, 2016
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Director Lee Mikeska Gardner has put together a dazzling production that matches Tom Stoppard’s dazzling script.

Theater Review: “Arabian Nights” — A Fabulous Fantasy for All Ages

December 31, 2015
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The actors’ infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.

Fuse Theater Review: “Grounded” — The Costs of a Long-Distance War

March 6, 2015
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Celeste Oliva’s performance is so raw, we experience every doubt, every fear, and watch her confidence slowly evaporate under pressure.

Theater Review: Nora Theatre Company’s “Emilie” — Where History, Feminism, and Science Fiction Meet

September 16, 2014
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At its deepest level, Emilie invokes the quest we all undertake to make sense of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.

Theater Interview: 9/11, Live Drama, and the Courage to Look God in the Eye

August 28, 2011
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9/11 has inspired a number of movies and TV documentaries, but theater works about the event are rare. What are dramatists and theater companies afraid of?

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2010

October 1, 2010
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October brings in epics from the classics (Shakespeare and Dickens), ghost stories from the classics (Poe, Henry James), a tragicomedy from a classic (O’Neill), and a comedy from a classic (Ben Jonson). Annie Baker, Ethan Coen, and the Rude Mechanicals provide some welcome respite from the tried-and-true. Given the state of the economy and the…

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