Black box specials
It doesn't take a colosseum to house a literary lion, as proved by Downstage @ New Rep's staging of intriguingly paired one-acts by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter in A PINTER DUET and the Publick Theatre's BCA Black Box staging of Irish writer Brian Friel's masterful skein of interlocked monologues, FAITH HEALER. Rick Lombardo directed the twinned Pinter treatments of marital fantasy and disconnection; Nora Hussey helmed Friel's exquisite study of the power of storytelling and the subjectivity of memory.
The scion also rises
Carrie Fisher proved both Hollywood royalty and court jester in her on-stage memoir WISHFUL DRINKING, which the Huntington Theatre Company hosted at the BU Theatre. If the piece has a serious aim, it's the destigmatization of manic depression, from whose embrace Fisher has flitted into the equally damaging arms of drugs, alcohol, and the hairmuffs that became her Star Wars signature. Telling her tale, the author/performer proved as funny as Dame Edna if as screwed up as Britney Spears.
To be young, gifted and free
The no-frills Factory Theatre proved an apt setting for Orfeo Group's crackling revival of John Osborne's shrine to Britain's Angry Young Man, the 1956 LOOK BACK IN ANGER. Despite its sexism and its prolixity, the landmark drama struck a chord with these talented young thespians, and they offered their crack, cramped production free of charge. Who says you never get something for nothing?
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- Perfect Tenn
When Tennessee Williams summered in Provincetown in the early 1940s, Eugene O’Neill was the playwright most associated with the tip of the Cape.
- Cry me a river
It would seem that Sophocles has been hanging around for 2500 years waiting to be improved — and the makeover artists have been numerous.
- I sink, therefore I am
Seascape , Edward Albee’s 1975 Pulitzer-winning meditation on evolution and mortality, gets all wet at Zeitgeist Stage Company.
- Mad Horse starts new midweek theater series
This month, Mad Horse Theater Company offers the inaugural installment of a new way to savor theater: in an array of morsels, with no waiting until the weekend.
- A powerhouse play
For a play titled Small Tragedy , playwright Craig Lucas certainly has packed in a bundle of large feelings.
- Winter's tales
The cold season heats up on Boston boards
- A Raisin in the Sun at Trinity, Bad Jazz at Zeitgeist
The centerpiece of George C. Wolfe's 1986 satire The Colored Museum is a scathing sketch called The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play . A Raisin in the Sun is the über-mama-on-the-couch play.
- The Secret Rapture at Trinity Repertory Company
David Hare's The Secret Rapture , which Trinity Repertory Company is presenting through March 29.
- Blackbird at SpeakEasy
The year 2007 was a banner one for British theater.
- Death and transfiguration
There are some playwrights whose work makes you think that a night at the theater is going to be an eat-your-vegetables affair, but then you see a sharp production of one of their plays and you realize the menu is meatier than you had remembered.
- Play by Play: March 13, 2009
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
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