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The Tempest

Theater Review: CSC’s “The Tempest” — A Brilliantly Kinetic Staging

CSC pulled out all the stops for its turn at The Tempest, bringing together a cast that is more than up to the challenge of knitting together poignant drama and madcap comedy.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, John Douglas Thompson, John Lam, Steven Mahler, The Tempest

Theater Review: ASP Conjures Up A Congenial “Tempest”

All in all, Allyn Burrows has assembled a solidly entertaining production of a perennial Shakespearean favorite for the winter season.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Allyn Burrows, Mayra Lowry, The Tempest

Fuse Theater Review: At the A.R.T., “The Tempest” is Toast

Is it the Bard or a magic show? The prestidigitation wins out given the wanness of the dramatic proceedings.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aaron Posner, American Repertory Theater, Diane Paulus, Teller, The Tempest, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: A “Tempest” With the Wedding Bell Blues

Olympia Dukakis’ Prospera is no tough feminist deity commanding a tiny kingdom. She is at her best when she plays the character as a feisty, down-to-earth mother who wants the best for her daughter.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Olympia Dukakis, Shakespeare & Company, The Tempest, Tony Simotes

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Film Review: Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” Technologically Enhanced

Julie Taymor’s film version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is conclusive proof that just because we can do something with technology does not mean that we should. Less is often more, and one great text in hand is worth a dozen computers in the mix. And what was the director thinking with the racist portrayal […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Film, Theater Tagged: Film, Helen Mirren, Julie Taymor, movie, The Tempest, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions in Theater: August 2010

The summer season winds down with (too) many of the usual crowd-pleasers, enlivened by a couple of world premieres, a re-vamping of an Oscar Wilde warhorse, and an encounter with non-being, courtesy of Edward Albee. By Bill Marx The Taster by Joan Ackermann. Directed by Tina Packer. Staged by Shakespeare & Company at the Founders’ […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Delicate Balance, Amanda Palmer, American Repertory Theater, An Ideal Husband, Bad Habit Productions, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Festival, Boston, Cabaret, Commonealth Shakespeare Company, Edward Albee, FeverFest 2010, Gloucester Stage Company, Gurnet-Theatre-Project, Othello, Shakespeare & Company, The Last Goodbye, The Memory Show, The Taster, The Tempest, Theater, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

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