Scott Edmiston

Theater Review: “Shakespeare in Love” — Lightweight Bard

January 19, 2018
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SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of Shakespeare in Love comes off as lovely, temperate, and at least a little trite.

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Theater Review: A Romantic Yet Unnerving “Constellations”

September 18, 2017
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Underground Railway Theater’s production of this touching and articulate play is perfectly lovely.

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Theater Review: The Lyric Stage Company is not “Afraid of Virginia Woolf”

January 30, 2017
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Edward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.

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Theater Review: A ‘Loverly’ “My Fair Lady” From the Lyric Stage

September 7, 2015
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Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Other Desert Cities” — Bridging the Great Cultural Divide?

January 19, 2013
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For all of its earnest interest in healing some of the great divides in American life, Other Desert Cities ends up slighting the desert spaces that lie between us.

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Theater Feature: Creating the Soundscape for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

April 17, 2012
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Supplementing Eugene O’Neill’s high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.

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Theater Review: “Time Stands Still” — A Too Distant Echo of the War in Iraq

February 25, 2012
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When young photographers went up to the famous war photographer, Robert Capa, and asked him what they could do to make their pictures more gripping, he said: “Go closer!”

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Theater Review: An Unimpressive “Next Fall”

September 25, 2011
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“Next Fall” is so anxious not to polarize or offend that it ends up as little more than well meaning. Something serious seems to be happening on stage, but for all intents and purposes the conflicts that make for genuine drama fall by the wayside.

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