102 stories by "Bob Verini"
★★★★ It has to be said: Dave Malloy's Melville adaptation is a whale of a show
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★★★ Octavio Solis's modern-day take on Don Quixote taps into the current crisis along the U.S./Mexico border
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★★★★ Jack Thorne, Matthew Warchus, and Charles Dickens insist that we Scrooges mend our selfish ways, with joyful stagecraft to pull us along
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★★ A city celebrates its legendary political rascal, leaving open why he should matter to the rest of us
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★★★★ A Sunnyside, Queens stoop is the unlikely setting for a thrilling affirmation of how we can learn to get along
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★★★★★ The "Divorced, Beheaded, Live" tryout tour of Henry VIII's wives makes a turbocharged Cambridge stop
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★★★ Stale environmental satire is offset by sprightly songs and a swell cast at Barrington Stage
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At Williamstown, an O.K. revival and a superior modern premiere explore humanity at lowest ebb.
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Two American dramedies, one classic and the other newly minted, affirm humanity's indomitable ability to renew in the face of chaos.
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★★ A Hamlet prequel out of a John Updike novel falls short of presaging the tragedy to follow
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★★★★ A great doggie performer headlines a tuneful, kid-friendly morality tail (sic)
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★★★ Rock'n'roll is here to stay, though we learn little about the man who made it happen
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Two concurrent plays in the Berkshires examine the effect of fairy tales, whether on the body human or the body politic
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Garcia Lorca's folk tragedy invokes earth, fire, and water, but gets mostly infused with air
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★★★ A sprightly, nostalgic musical of the 1960s sacrifices some of the stronger qualities of its cinematic source
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★★★★ Two gifted first-timers, the Brothers Lazour, find melody and hope in recent historical events marked as much by defeat as by triumph
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★★★★ Shadow Box author shadow-boxes with charismatic real-life champ, wins on points
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★★★★ McNally, Ahrens and Flaherty ransack the operetta playbook, with pleasing results
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★★★★ Director Mark Lamos invests a musical theater perennial with novelty and life
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★★★★★ A classic poem becomes a stunning music theater piece celebrating identity and dignity in the face of oppression
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Harriet Harris shines as Chris Durang's nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood's vintage melodrama just shines, period.
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★★★★ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material.
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★★ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off
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★★★ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane's uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America
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A rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…
