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Tracy Letts

Theater Review: “The Minutes” on Broadway Beguiles and Befuddles

Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’s new Broadway play features an intriguing premise and a shocking denouement.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Christopher Caggiano, The Minutes, Tracy Letts

Theater Review: “Linda Vista” on Broadway Upends the Male Midlife Crisis

Dramatist Tracy Letts’s new play is raw, funny, and intensely personal.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Christopher Caggiano, Linda Vista, Tracy Letts

Fuse Theater Review: Flat Earth Theatre Bugs Out

In BUG, a deranged veteran fights for his “freedom” against phantoms in a hermetically sealed echo chamber that he is willing to blow up for the good of mankind. As The Tea Party would have it: Either change the government or shut it down.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Bug, Flat Earth Theatre, The Tea Party, Tracy Letts

Theater Review: ‘August: Osage County’

August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production presented by Broadway Across America at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, though May 9. Reviewed by Bill Marx “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opined Leo Tolstoy sagely in Anna […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: August:Osage County, Boston, Broadway Across America, Estelle Parsons, Theater, Tracy Letts

Coming Attractions in Theater: May 2010

By Bill Marx The month contains plenty of summerish entertainment, from a new baseball musical to a campy Alfred Hitchcock parody and a jazzy update of The Mikado. For me, the standouts are the more demanding fare, such as a festival of new American theater pieces and an exciting opportunity see Shakespeare’s rarely staged Timon […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American-Repertory-Theatre, Bach at Leipzig, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Red Sox, Charlestown Working Theater, Craig Lucas, Dan Hurlin, Diane Paulus, Disfarmer, Emerging America, Farragut North, Gold Dust Orphans, Hot Mikado, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Institute of Contemporary Art, Itamar Moses, Johnny Baseball, Kate Warner, musical, New Repertory Theatre, Peter-DuBois, Portland Stage Company, Poste Restante, Prelude to a Kiss, Ryan Landry, Shakespeare, The Gulls, They Gotta Be Secret Agents, Timon of Athens, Tracy Letts, Watertown, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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