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Autumn garden

Fall on Boston boards
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.

By CAROLYN CLAY | September 14, 2009

Play by play: September 18, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 17, 2009

Play by play: September 11, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 09, 2009

Sins of the play

Israel Horovitz returns to Gloucester
The title of Israel Horovitz's Sins of the Mother (through September 13 at Gloucester Stage) is an ironic misnomer.

By STEVE VINEBERG | September 02, 2009

Play by play: September 4, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 02, 2009

Play by Play: August 28, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 26, 2009

Play by play: August 21, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 18, 2009

Twin peaks

The Comedy of Errors on Boston Common
The bay of Ephesus laps Collins Avenue in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Latin-tinged, frisky if over-frenetic The Comedy of Errors (at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common through August 16). It is not across sands of subtlety but through a spray of salsa that the perpetrators of this 1930s-South-Beach-set riff on Shakespeare's early comedy pratfall.

By CAROLYN CLAY | August 12, 2009

Play by play: August 14, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 11, 2009

Seasons' greetings

Jersey Boys walks like a man
It may not be December 1963, but oh what a night is Jersey Boys (at the Shubert Theatre through September 26) for boomers wishing to enjoy the soundtrack of their youth set against a mix of Forever Plaid and GoodFellas .

By CAROLYN CLAY | August 04, 2009

Play by Play: August 7, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 05, 2009

Hare belles

Divas Plum and Carroll exude The Breath of Life
With apologies to Winston Churchill, The Breath of Life is a cliché wrapped in an enigma — or two. On the face of it, award-winning British writer David Hare's ruthless yet sentimental two-hander (at Gloucester Stage through August 2) is a standard confrontation between a betrayed wife and her husband's long-time mistress.

By CAROLYN CLAY | July 28, 2009

Play by play: July 31, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 29, 2009

Quake and Shake

Company One meshes Murakami; Orfeo compacts the Bard
A tenderhearted yarn spinner tells an anxious little girl a story about a talking bear hawking honey. A nerdy young debt collector comes home to find a six-foot amphibian bent on recruiting him to save Tokyo from a natural disaster. Both scenarios emanate from the brain of award-winning Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

By CAROLYN CLAY | July 22, 2009

Play by play: July 24, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 22, 2009

Play by play: July 17, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 15, 2009

Play by play: July 10, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 08, 2009

Play by Play: July 3, 2009

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By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 06, 2009

Violet hour

The Color Purple is vivid on stage
The color purple describes both kids' icon Barney and a bruise. And sure enough, both child-friendly uplift and florid abrasion are wound into the sprawling, heartfelt musical based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning 1982 novel about a beaten-down young black woman learning to value herself over the course of 40 years in the first half of the 20th century.

By CAROLYN CLAY | June 23, 2009