19 stories by "Martin Copenhaver"
In this high-energy comedy of creative frustration, history"and hubris"repeat themselves to hilarious effect.
The true star of the Lyric Stage production is Aimee Doherty, who is marvelous in the role of Penelope.
"Wonder" aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us "choose kind."
Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.
The themes of "Lizard Boy" would land more squarely"and more powerfully"with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.
"The Triumph of Love" lacks the physical comedy and swift action that usually characterize a farce. Here the dialogue is the action.Â
"A Man of No Importance" is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault's tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic ex…
A story of divorce and self-discovery may be worth telling, but it suffers when it is interwoven with a life narrative that is clearly weighter.
Tony winning playwright Joe DiPietro does a commendable job of dramatizing the true-life confrontation between Margaret Chase Smith and Joseph McCarthy while they were both serving in the Un…
The creators of "Gatsby" have fashioned some creative ways to make the story seem more contemporary. None of that, however, seems enough to justify the enormous amount of energy and talent t…
The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
Critical to the success of "Cost of Living" is playwright Martyna Majok's refusal to resort to tropes about people with disabilities and those who care for them.
The energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.
This is one of the more engaging pieces of theatre I have experienced in some time.
As satisfying as this incomplete work is -- much like Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," which the composer inexplicably abandoned six years before his death -- we can still regret not being …
Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.
Even before the lights come up on the remarkable new production by Moonbox Productions, it is clear that this is a "Sweeney Todd" of a different order.
By Martin B. Copenhaver Assassins Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weidman. Directed by Courtney O'Connor. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston at 140 Clarendon Stre…
