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Fuse Theater Review: ASP’s Compelling “Othello” — Taking a Different Tack

ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, John Kuntz, Johnnie McQuarley, Othello, tragedy, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Saint Joan” — Ferociously Relevant

The virtuoso approach of Bedlam’s Saint Joan, its unpretentious immediacy, makes this production an exuberant Shavian history lesson that should not to be missed.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bedlam's Saint Joan, Catholic Church, Central Square Theater, George-Bernard-Shaw, Saint Joan, tragedy, Underground Railway Theater

Theater Commentary: Happy 400th Birthday to Ben Jonson’s “Catiline: His Conspiracy”

Multiple Google searches suggest that no one is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the second of Ben Jonson’s tragedies. I don’t think I will live to see a production of CATILINE, but attention should be paid to this awkward but powerful script. Filled with moral strength, perceptive realpolitik, and rich poetry, it proffers a brilliant serio-comic meditation on political gangsterism.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Theater Tagged: Ben Jonson, Catiline, Elizabethan drama, Ian Donaldson, Julius Caesar, Sejanus, tragedy, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: Notes on Shakespeare as a Bare Bard

Two recent productions of Shakespeare, one a heralded London staging at the Donmar Warehous heading to New York in April, the other an Actors’ Shakespeare Project presentation in Davis Square, provide examples of the strengths and weaknesses of tackling the Bard without frills.

By: Blll Marx Filed Under: Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Cymbeline, Derek Jacobi, Donmar Warehouse, drama, King Lear, Michael Grandage, romance, tragedy, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2011

A hold-onto-your seat month with some intriguing world premieres, including a musical version of a Korean folktale, an attempt to turn Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound into a rock event, and a cerebral confab featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. By Bill Marx. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Grandage. NT Live screens the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Theater Tagged: Abbey Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Ajax, American Repertory Theater, Bod Clayman, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Cymbeline, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Divine Rivalry, DollHouse, Greek, Hartford Stage, Howard-barker, John Kuntz, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Michael Kramer, New Repertory Theatre, Prometheus Bound, Serj Tankian, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Steven Sater, Stoneham Theatre, Sunfish, Terminus, The Europeans, The Exceptionals, The Hotel Nepenthe, Theresa Rebeck, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, tragedy, Underground Railway Theater, Whistler-in-the-Dark-theater

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