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Theater Review: A Pair of Dostoevskian Inquisitions

Dostoevsky’s theater is set on a metaphysical stage — both “The Grand Inquisitor” and “9 Circles” explore whether the actions of its central characters are meaningful or absurd.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Theater Tagged: 9 Circles, Bill Cain, Boston, Bruce Myers, Peter Brook, Publick-Theatre, The Grand Inquistor

Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2010

Highlights on stage this month include the world premiere of a drama about evolution by a respected local playwright and an intriguing collection of plays and musicals that bring an unusual perspective to topics ranging from love and music to extinction and dehumanization. And the wait is over: a show featuring singing dinosaurs has arrived. […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American Repertory Theater, Apple, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Boston, Boston Center for the Arts, Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, Central Square Theatre, Company One, Holland Productions, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jim Petosa, Melancholy Play, Melinda-Lopez, Michael Hollinger, New Repertory Theatre, Opus, Othello, Peter-DuBois, Publick-Theatre, Sarah-Ruhl, Shakespeare, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Adding Machine, Theater, Underground Railway Theater, Vern Thiessen

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2009

By Bill Marx October includes the usual line-up of plays by seal-of-approval dramatists, Edward Albee and Conor McPherson, but there’s some welcome new blood, from Punchdrunk’s athletic adaptation of “Macbeth” to “Little Black Dress,” playwright Ronan Noone’s latest salvo at our national psyche, and “The Overwhelming,” the Boston premiere of a critically acclaimed study of […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater, World Books Tagged: American-Repertory-Theatre, Bash, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Brandeis Theatre Company, Company One, Conor-McPherson, Edward Albee, Everything in the Garden, J. T. Rogers, Laurie Theater, LIttle Black Dress, Macbeth, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Neil-Labute, Publick-Theatre, Punchdrunk, Ronan-Noone, Shakespeare, Shawn LaCount, Shooting Stars, Sleep No More, Stephen Dietz, The Overwhelming, The Seafarer, Theater on Fire, Trinity Repertory Company, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Theater Review: A One-Sided Shavian “Misalliance”

By Bill Marx When George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Misalliance, subtitled “a debate,” premiered in 1910, critics couldn’t make heads or tails of the play. It didn’t matter if the reviewer was sympathetic to Shavian excess — the evening’s self-parodying polemics and prophetic theater-of-the-absurd trappings were too much. The production closed after 11 performances: the script, […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: George-Bernard-Shaw, Getting-married, Misalliance, Noel-Coward, Persona Non Grata, Publick-Theatre, Theater

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