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Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: “Grand Concourse” — You Gotta Have Faith

Oscar (Alejandro Simoes), Shelley (Melinda Lopez), Emma (Ally Dawson), and Frog (Thomas Derrah) light the cake.

Grand Concourse does wondrous things: it encourages us ponder our own growth toward faith while emphasizing with the struggles of others.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, Grand Concourse, Heidi Schreck, Melinda-Lopez, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Fuse Theater Review: “Casa Valentina”—Dovetailing Hilarity and Heartbreak

Casa Valentina’s dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Casa Valentina, Eddie Shields, harvey-fierstein, Robert Saoud, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: ASP’s Powerful “God’s Ear” — The Poetics of Grief

Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s superb production of God’s Ear honors this beautiful text.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, God's Ear, Jenny Schwartz, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah

Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux

We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Aidan Parkinson, Alvin Epstein, Benjamin Evett, Cherry Jones, Christopher Lydon, David Gullette, Dylan Thomas, Erica Funkhouser, Karen MacDonald, Lawrence Senelick, Lloyd Schwartz, Poets' Theatre, Robert Scanlan, Thomas Derrah, Under Milk Wood

Theater Review: Eighteenth Century Pen Pals — Voltaire and Frederick

Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities rather than ideas.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, French Enlightenment, German Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah, Voltaire, Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters

Theater Feature: A German Stage at the Goethe-Institut Boston

“The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that reach the stage.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Annette Klein, Boston, Detlef Gerick-Schönhagen, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Guy Ben-Aharon, John Kuntz, Thomas Derrah, Voltaire and Frederick: A Life in Letters

Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”

Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”

“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Theater, Visual Arts Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”

“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: R. Buckminster Fuller — I Sing the Body Geodesic

D.W. Jacobs’s presentation of the life and ideas of American visionary R. Buckminster Fuller invites you to make your own intellectual structure out of what you have seen—connect Fuller’s dots and you have an image that expands your mental horizons or at the very least ups your powers of analysis and recall. R. Buckminster Fuller: […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, D.W. Jacobs, drama, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Hisory (and Mystery) of the Universe, Thomas Derrah

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