Praxis Stage

Theater Review: “King John” — Fractured History Lesson

February 5, 2020
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Praxis Stage picked the right time to stage a Shakespeare play about a head of state who doesn’t have anything on his mind but corruption.

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Theater Review: Praxis Stage’s “Coriolanus” — Riled-Up Warriors

October 30, 2019
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The audience members were as diverse as the cast, the show is not being staged in a traditional space in Boston, and the play is incredibly relevant.

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Theater Review: “The Plague” — A Necessary Moral Parable

May 15, 2018
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In a culture that seems hell-bent on distracting us from painful realities, the intimacy of this production comes off as redemptive and inspiring.

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Theater Interview: Adaptor Neil Bartlett on Seeing Your Own Plague in “The Plague”

May 9, 2018
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Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.

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Theater Review: “for colored girls …” — A Welcome Reprise

February 23, 2018
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Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.

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Theater Review: “Accidental Death of an Anarchist – The Vexation of Violence

December 6, 2017
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Dario Fo’s dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.

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Theater Interview: Critical Truth Telling and Praxis Stage’s “Julius Caesar”

August 10, 2017
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Wonder why Boston theater is so bland, why there is so little political resistance?

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Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt

January 23, 2017
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Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.

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