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Play by play: March 6, 2009

Plays from A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By CAROLYN CLAY | March 03, 2009

Blackbird at SpeakEasy

A play about a confrontation between two desperate nobodies.
The year 2007 was a banner one for British theater.

By ED SIEGEL | February 25, 2009

Endgame at the ART

Death duties
"They give mirth astride of a grave," Beckett might just as well have written of Mankind. He did opine, in Endgame , that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness."

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 27, 2009

Play by Play: February 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 24, 2009

Daddys and lovers

The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage
The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 19, 2009

Play by play: February 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 17, 2009

A Raisin in the Sun at Trinity, Bad Jazz at Zeitgeist

Reviews of two plays
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.

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2009

Play by play: February 13, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 11, 2009

Daughter of Venus

The Zinn drum
Suffolk and BPT birth Daughter of Venus

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 03, 2009

Peter Morgan's Frost-Nixon

Keachy
Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon at the Colonial

By STEVE VINEBERG | February 03, 2009

Play by Play: February 6, 2009

Plays A through Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By CAROLYN CLAY | February 09, 2009

Bread and Puppet Theater returns

Sourdough politics
The Bread and Puppet Theater's Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle & Circus returns.

By PHOENIX STAFF | January 26, 2009

SpeakEasy's The New Century, Cabaret at New Rep

Gay apparel
The New Century , a quartet of related short plays by Paul Rudnick, takes its name from the discount department store Century 21.

By CAROLYN CLAY | January 26, 2009

Interview: Stacy Keach

Sympathy for the Devil
"He was Satan personified," says Stacy Keach, who has signed on to play our second-worst commander in chief in the national tour of Frost/Nixon.

By JIM SULLIVAN | January 22, 2009

Review: The Seagull, The Corn Is Green

Tons of love
The Seagull begins with a theatrical experiment — a brief symbolist drama dreamed by young Konstantin Treplev, who's struggling toward artistic expression while endeavoring to showcase his girlfriend and impress his actress mother.

By CAROLYN CLAY | January 20, 2009

Review: ASP's The Duchess of Malfi, Nora's The Cherry Orchard

Dying breeds
T.S. Eliot famously opined that John Webster saw "the skull beneath the skin."

By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2009

NSMT goes begging

Theater in the Red
Theater in the Red

By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | January 07, 2009

Scenes 4 tweens

Troy, Gabriella, and the HSM2 crew put the music in them. Now our two quasi-theater critics are trying to get it out.
When I was a teenager, all I ever longed for was to live in a world where it was socially acceptable, nay, a social requirement , to frequently burst into song.

By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | January 07, 2009

Joan Didion on stage, Spalding Gray on the page

Grief watch
The 90-minute theater piece differs from the memoir in ways other than its relative slimness. It's more of a linear journey.

By CAROLYN CLAY | January 07, 2009

Winter's tales

The cold season heats up on Boston boards
The cold season heats up on Boston boards

By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 29, 2008

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