The proceedings are continually involving, each of the performers supplying sufficient dramatic weight and interacting as a credible ensemble of characters rather than caricatures.
"Rhinoceros" is a powerful wake-up call that, whether we like it nor not, we are writhing on the horns of a dilemma.
Keiko Green's play about the end of the world is a robust vaudevillian entertainment.
Director Tony Estrella's version of Ibsen's tragedy smooths out an energetic path -- the action moves along with compelling alacrity.
"Job" is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.
Two versions of "Hedda Gabler" -- one gratifying, the other gauche.
The Berkshire Theatre Group production of "Metamorphoses" is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.
The Front Porch Arts Collective's engaging revival of Katori Hall's drama comes at a propitious time.
"If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice."
What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children's Theatre in the '60s: "cooperation, creativity, listening, and…
Overall, this is a satisfying production of a turn-of-the-century play that still underlines enduring economic inequity.
A trio of companies " Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theater, and, to a lesser extent, Berkshire Theater Festival " draw on the stage's power to address our current politi…
The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented…
The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director's claim that this comedy is about expats striving for "a more balanced, egalitarian society."
This is the most slickly engaging of Mfoniso Udofia's scripts so far, its domestic melodrama enlivened by welcome humor, detailed characterizations, and moments of pathos.
We desperately need plays and musicals -- produced by local companies with courage and nerve -- that acknowledge that the cancer of autocracy is here, today, and becoming stronger. That is t…
The Russian dramatist's expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn't be more fitting -- it is a funhouse…
Why did I help organize the Climate Crisis Cabaret? Because these are not normal times. And we need more theater like it.
It is always a pleasure to see Ibsen on stage, but this staging of one of his masterpieces is generally humdrum.
Revelatory reunions are a standard dramatic set-up, which explains why it takes quite a while for "The Grove" to gather some theatrical steam.
This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K's vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity's last stand -- as an animal.
Our critics salute the year's outstanding productions.
Abigail C. Onwunali's powerhouse performance is memorable, but the mechanics of Mfoniso Udofia's play don't always match the lead's boundary-stretching strengths.
"Leopoldstadt" is one of Tom Stoppard's most heartfelt and expansive works, its poignant storyline inspired by events in his own life.
Cinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus's direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.