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Portland Stage Company

Theater Review: “The Half-Light” — A Powerful Excursion into the Spirit World

The Half-Light is a play about ghosts that, while offering intimations of mortality, ends up exuding a charming and infectious romantic spirit.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Greenham, Monica Wood, Portland Stage Company, The Half-Light

Theater Review: “Ben Butler” — Civil War Laughs

A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ben Butler, Daniel Burson, David Greenham, Portland Stage Company, Richard Strand

Theater Review: “The Niceties” — A Gentle Slap Awake?

The Niceties gives us an invaluable opportunity to hover outside of the current political debate about race and American history.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alexis Green, David Greenham, Eleanor Burgess, Janine Susan Knight, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Portland Stage Company, The Niceties

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2011

Every September proffers an explosion of productions; as usual, my eclectic picks, driven by my prejudice for the new. There are few world premieres among the openers this season, aside from the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Arts Emerson’s presentation of The Foundry Theatre’s “How Much is Enough.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: All The Journeying Ways, Arts Emerson, Belle Linda Halpern, Bread and Puppet Theater, Candide, Charlestown Working Theater, Claudia Dey, Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, Curt Columbus, Delusion, Exquisite Corps Theatre, Geoffrey Nauffts, His Girl Friday, How Much is Enough: Our Values in Question, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John Malkovich, John-Guare, Kathleen Cahill, Laurie Anderson, Man = Carrot Circus, Mary Zimmerman, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Next Fall, Once in a Lifetime, Portland Stage Company, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Salem Theater Company, Scott Alarik, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Foundry Theatre, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, The Morini Strad, The Odyssey, The Persian Quarter, The-Bacchae, Trinity Repertory Company, Trout Stanley, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, Willy Holtzman

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2010

Holiday season is kicking in, which means it becomes harder to find theater that doesn’t set out to warm your heart and melt your mind. Though a Santaland Diary or two remains, the vogue for cynical Xmas shows has run its course. Still, all is not lost when you can still find such extraordinary family […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Apollinaire Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, Basil Twist, Beasley's Christmas Party, Bob Glaudini, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Celebrity-Series, Charlestown Working Theater, Chick with a Trick, Codes of Conduct, Community Music Center of Boston, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Gina Gionfriddo, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Last Gas, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Najla Said, Naomi-Wallace, New England, New Repertory Theatre, Pamela Bob Sings the Mandel & Lydon Songbook, Petrushka, Portland Stage Company, The Fever Chart, Theater, Two Wives in India, U.S. Drag, Underground Railway Theater, Vengeance is the Lord's

Coming Attractions in Theater: May 2010

By Bill Marx The month contains plenty of summerish entertainment, from a new baseball musical to a campy Alfred Hitchcock parody and a jazzy update of The Mikado. For me, the standouts are the more demanding fare, such as a festival of new American theater pieces and an exciting opportunity see Shakespeare’s rarely staged Timon […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American-Repertory-Theatre, Bach at Leipzig, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Red Sox, Charlestown Working Theater, Craig Lucas, Dan Hurlin, Diane Paulus, Disfarmer, Emerging America, Farragut North, Gold Dust Orphans, Hot Mikado, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Institute of Contemporary Art, Itamar Moses, Johnny Baseball, Kate Warner, musical, New Repertory Theatre, Peter-DuBois, Portland Stage Company, Poste Restante, Prelude to a Kiss, Ryan Landry, Shakespeare, The Gulls, They Gotta Be Secret Agents, Timon of Athens, Tracy Letts, Watertown, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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