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In this script, dramatist Martyna Majok has created an opportunity for those who live in (or near) cities to see and hear the struggles of the underclass.
Perhaps what's most fascinating here is proof that Brenda Withers' play has an evergreen quality to it. "The Ding Dongs" may prove to be prophetic.
Patti Hartigan's biography is a workmanlike portrait of dramatist August Wilson that never delves deep enough into his poetic soul.
The David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical makes its long-awaited Broadway bow. (Well, long-awaited by some…)
This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare's tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth's "black and deep desires."
Theater companies all over the country are cutting back or shutting down. And the bad news just keeps coming.
Congratulations to Gloucester Stage's new artistic director Rebecca Bradshaw for mounting the regional premiere of this interesting script, a kitchen sink comedy/drama that is anything but r…
The Lehman Brothers is epic in its proportion and ambitions, so it is ironic that it sacrifices opportunities to probe troubling topics.
Anna Ziegler's play is based on a true story that still resonates powerfully: how science (and society) hides uncomfortable truths.
Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward's well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.
In the Actors' Shakespeare's Project's likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.
This American Repertory Theatre co-production gets so many of "Evita"'s elements right -- now all it needs is the musical's combative soul.
The Gaaga's humor is driven by rage, anger, and disgust, emotions that are not often found in our domesticated (for easy consumption) theater scene.
Set designer Sara Brown creates theater wizardry through the assistance of digital tools, not a magic wand.
The Prom's greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
A talented cast does its best to add buoyancy to a script weighted down in palaver.
This pared-down staging of Tony Kushner's 30 year-old masterpiece invites some reflection, even a kind of nostalgia. But blazing through -- with seraphic force -- is the harsh reality of how…
And So We Walked is about the performer finding her roots and that quest is often meandering.
Musical revivals are stealing the show on Broadway this season " some more successfully than others
Over the years I have seen several productions of Coriolanus, and this one is by far the most perfunctory.
The Huntington Theatre Company's co-production of Lynn Nottage's Clyde's is spirited and sassy.
Rejoice, my fellow musical theater geeks, Apple TV's Schimgadoon! is once again taking center stage.
By Olivia Sutton K-I-S-S-I-N-G by Lenelle Moïse. Directed by Dawn M. Simmons. Staged by Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for …
How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.
