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Whistler in the Dark Theatre

Theater Review: “The After-Dinner Joke” — How We are Out-Sourcing Our Consciences

British dramatist Caryl Churchill proffers a valuable line of satiric attack on our delusions of doing good, so it is easy to forgive the dramatist her broad and scattershot comic approach.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Charlestown Working Theater, The After-Dinner Joke, Whistler in the Dark Theatre

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

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2011

Every September proffers an explosion of productions; as usual, my eclectic picks, driven by my prejudice for the new. There are few world premieres among the openers this season, aside from the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Arts Emerson’s presentation of The Foundry Theatre’s “How Much is Enough.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: All The Journeying Ways, Arts Emerson, Belle Linda Halpern, Bread and Puppet Theater, Candide, Charlestown Working Theater, Claudia Dey, Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, Curt Columbus, Delusion, Exquisite Corps Theatre, Geoffrey Nauffts, His Girl Friday, How Much is Enough: Our Values in Question, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John Malkovich, John-Guare, Kathleen Cahill, Laurie Anderson, Man = Carrot Circus, Mary Zimmerman, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Next Fall, Once in a Lifetime, Portland Stage Company, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Salem Theater Company, Scott Alarik, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Foundry Theatre, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, The Morini Strad, The Odyssey, The Persian Quarter, The-Bacchae, Trinity Repertory Company, Trout Stanley, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, Willy Holtzman

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