Peterborough Players
Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.
Read MoreCry Havoc’s message: We expend energy in preparing young men and women for war, but no effort in re-engaging them into the life of not-war.
Read MoreThe staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.
Read MoreVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike goes on about a half hour too long, but the quality of the acting overcomes the longueurs.
Read MoreA two-person engagement like Annapurna demands that mysterious quality from actors that we call “chemistry.”
Read MoreThis production of Driving Miss Daisy isn’t about conflict and irresolution, but sentimental reassurance.
Read MoreDan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.
Read MoreWriting seriously about a play that might not be meant to be taken so seriously presents a risk, but the provocation embedded in the social message of Born Yesterday can’t be escaped.
Read MoreThis production of Charley’s Aunt has the rhythm of a Mozart operatic finale — all the parts contribute to a dizzy harmony.
Read MoreJohn Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar is a romantic comedy, so you can guess the dénouement, but all the fun is in getting there.
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