148 stories by "Robert Israel"
Richard Nelson does not compel us to pay attention to his characters' psychological disclosures, and his reluctance to underline is refreshing.
Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.
Despite the well-intentioned efforts of the cast, Eli Wiesel's words were lost in space.
"It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us."
Culture Clash's view of America will discomfort, which is all the more reason that I urge you -- strongly -- to attend.
To call the American Visionary Art Museum quirky would be an understatement: therein lies its charm as well as one of the reason for its success, even in economic hard times.
Attempting to dig underneath our protective psychic skins to get at the festering Ids within, John Kuntz would like Necessary Monsters to mesh laughter and fright, comedy and horror.
Galway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
Joshua Harmon steers his play to the middle ground where his two lead characters " representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism " ultimately exhaust one another, and us.
Pride is poignant celebration of the power of the human element, a carefully layered tale of solidarity.
The more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills - the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.
Director Eric C. Engel and the Gloucester Stage Company cast gives Fences an insightful and nuanced production.
4000 Miles is a showcase for dramatist Amy Herzog's quirky sensibilities and canny insights into family dynamics.
The Tony accolades bestowed upon A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, will no doubt assure Darko Tresnjak's future on Broadway.
Women are the dominant force in "Amaluna." They command the evening's whirligig of a stage as aerialists, clowns, musicians, dancers, and contortionists.
"Abe Lincoln's Piano" does not evoke in us the same sense of astonishment that Hershey Felder feels toward his antiquarian discoveries; his personal serendipities remain dramatically elusive.
Pianist, actor, director and consummate storyteller Hershey Felder returns to Boston in a one-man show entitled Abe Lincoln's Piano.
The late Nicholas Martin -- an ebullient, mirthful spirit.
What makes "The Wholehearted" compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.
"House/Divided" " a mélange of dazzling videography, startling and inventive lighting/props/stage craft, and spoken snippets of John Steinbeck's quasi-Biblical prose " does not add anything…
The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.
This expansive biography of Ted Williams is not awash in sentimentally, thanks to Ben Bradlee's praiseworthy search for the facts, no matter where they lead, and his command of language, hon…
"Becky's New Car" turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our ac…
