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Shawn LaCount

Fuse Review: Company One Exhibits a Ferociously Good “Bengal Tiger”

“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Company One, Culture Vulture, Iraq, Rajiv Joseph, Rick Park, Shawn LaCount

Theater Review: Wrestling With Art

Ultimately the evening is NOT about wrestling. It’s about the root, the very nature of art. About the love of craft; about wanting and needing to create.

By: Peter-Adrian Cohen Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Company One, Kristoffer Diaz, Shawn LaCount, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Theater Review: “Grimm” but Entertaining

Charm’d magic casements, opening on the Foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. — To a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819 GRIMM: The Brothers’ Tales Remixed & Re-imagined . . . Written by Gregory Maguire, Kristen Greenidge, Melinda Lopez, Marcus Gardley, Lydia R. Diamond, John Kuntz, and John ADEkoje. Directed by Summer L. Williams and […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Brothers Grimm, Company One, Gregory Maguire, John ADEkoje, John Kuntz, Kirsten Greenidge, Lydia Diamond, Marcus Gardley, Melinda-Lopez, Shawn LaCount, Summer l. Williams

Judicial Theater Review #1: The Overwhelming at Company One

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community-making power of interactivity. This is our first session. Review by Ian Thal Review by Timothy Longman Review by Peter Cohen Artist response by Shawn LaCount Summary […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review, Theater, World Books Tagged: Africa, Company One, Ian Thal, J. T. Rogers, Peter Cohen, Rwanda, Shawn LaCount, The Overwhelming, Timothy Longman

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

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