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Theater Review: “Ghosts” — Specters on the March

August 15, 2019
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In this always compelling production, director Carey Perloff decided to bring the uncanny on stage, almost as a sixth character, in the form of composer/musician David Coulter.

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Theater Review: “Selling Kabul” — Those Who Remain Behind

July 15, 2019
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Selling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage.

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Theater Review: “A Raisin in the Sun” — A Great Evening of Theater

July 9, 2019
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To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes.

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Theater Review: “The Closet” — Lightweight Fare

July 2, 2018
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The Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.

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Theater Review: Berkshires Stage Round-up — Minimal Cheers

August 9, 2017
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Theater in the Berkshires has now entered a less than sparkling mode with a group of offerings that left me wondering why they were chosen for production.

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Theater Review: A Superb “Clean House” at The Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 25, 2017
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This is a masterful production of Sarah Ruhl’s sparkling update of Commedia dell’arte.

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Theater Review: At WTF — “The Roommate” and “The Model American”

July 4, 2017
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The Model American is a powerful reminder of how deep theatrical pockets can be used to develop deeply significant new work.

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Theater Review: “Unknown Soldier” — A Musical About the Power of Memory

August 5, 2015
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One of Unknown Soldier’s powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.

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Theater Review: “Kinship” at Williamstown Theatre Festival– No Sex in the City

July 22, 2015
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In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn’t found a language that conveys irrational longing.

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Theater Review: “Living on Love” or Froth?

July 21, 2014
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Incomparable opera diva Renée Fleming makes her debut as a stage actress — playing an impossible opera diva — in playwright Joe DiPietro’s sliver of a comedy Living on Love.

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