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Theater Review: An Amusing “She Stoops to Conquer” from the National Theatre

It is a pleasure to report that — driven by the lively direction of Jamie Lloyd and the skills of an energetic cast — the National Theatre production proves that even after two centuries Oliver Goldsmith’s classic can still dole out plenty of comic delight.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Theater Tagged: NT Live, Oliver Goldsmith, Royal National Theatre, She Stoops to Conquer

Theater Review: NTLive’s “Comedy of Errors” — Lots of Muddle, But Magic As Well

As this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles ‘comedy,’ a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Coolidge Corner Theatre, Dominic Cooke, NT Live, The Comedy of Errors, William-Shakespeare

Fuse Theater Review/Commentary: NT Live Presents a Cynical “Collaborators”

Playwright John Hodge chooses to ignore the complexity of the dissident writer’s experience — expedience for the sake of protecting something of value from destruction, an author fighting his inner demons to live long enough to finish what he believes to be a work of art that is also an act of political defiance.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Collaborators, Coolidge Corner Theatre, John Hodge, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Bulgakov, National-Theatre, NT Live

Theater Review: An Epic Tale of Pursuer and Pursued — NT Live’s “Frankenstein”

In this compelling stage version of “Frankenstein,” urgency of revenge pushes forward, murder upon murder. Creature and Doctor merge in immorality. Both are playing God in their command of life and death. Sharing roles is the meaning of this theatrical experience. This is their message and their show.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Danny Boyle, Frankenstein, horror, Mary Shelley, National-Theatre, NT Live

Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2011

An exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Opera, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, ArtsEmerson, Bear Patrol, Book of Days, Car Talk: The Musical, Click and Clack, Come and Go, Danny Boyle, Darko Tresnjak, Death and the Powers:The Robots' Opera, Diane Paulus, Educating Rita, Elevator Repair Service, F. Murray Abraham, Fragmens, Frankenstein, Howard Benson, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John J. King, Karole-Armitage, Lanford Wilson, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Modern Theatre, National Theatre Live, Neil-Labute, Neither, Nick Dear, NPR, NT Live, Opera, Paul, Peter Brook, Poetry, Ray and Tom Magliozzi, Reasons to Be Pretty, Robert Pinsky, Rockaby, Rough for Theatre I, samuel-beckett, Seth Rozin, Shylock, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Rimers of Eldritch, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Theatre for a New Audience, Tod Machover, Two Jews Walk Into a War .., Vaquero Playground, Wesley Savick, Weylin Symes, William-Shakespeare, Willy Russell

Theater Review: HD Hamlet — Determined Relevance

Royal National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner is determined to make the drama as relevant to our own times as to the Bard’s. The setting is a somewhat flimsy, gray-walled salon. Theatrical apparatuses are visible: a klieg light here, a fresnel there. Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Staged by the Royal National Theatre, London, England. Taped by […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Film, Theater Tagged: Coolidge Corner Theatre, Hamlet, HD, Nicholas Hytner, NT Live, Royal National Theatre, Theater, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2010

By Bill Marx The coming month offers some unusual examples of theater. Finished with “exploding” Shakespeare, the American Repertory Theater has decided to present the American classics unabridged. Produced by the Elevator Repair Service, “Gatz” is an evening of drama that revolves around a complete reading of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Political […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 4:48 psychosis, All My Sons, American Repertory Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, Carny Knowledge, Company One, Fabuloso, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Gamm-Theatre, Gatz, Gee's Bend, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Indulgences, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nation, NT Live, The Good Negro

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