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Unkindest cuts

Julius Caesar at the ART; The Scene at Lyric Stage
Those who went to high school in the 1960s may feel a wave of déjà vu at the American Repertory Theatre’s Julius Caesar .

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 19, 2008

Streets where you live

A loverly My Fair Lady ; The Missionary Position at MRT
The 2001 National Theatre of Great Britain/Cameron Mackintosh production further sharpens the Shavian edge of this beloved musical.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2008

Mediæval morality play

In Bruges is a good place to be
It’s location, location, location for Martin McDonagh.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 16, 2008

Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III is a thing of additions and subtractions.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 05, 2008

Sex and the century

Angels in America by BTW; A Pinter Duet at New Rep
Angels in America can dance on the head of a pin as easily as any other kind.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 29, 2008

Grail time

‘Ni’ business like show business in Spamalot
Monty Python’s Spamalot bills itself as “lovingly ripped off” from the low-budget 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail .

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 23, 2008

Fie, society

The Little Dog Laughed at SpeakEasy; The Misanthrope at New Rep
Frailty, thy name is society — or so suggest two comedies of manners currently on view but written 340 years apart.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 22, 2008

War games

The Huntington’s Third ; the ART’s Copenhagen ; ASP’s Henry V
Wendy Wasserstein might have chosen a lesser light in whose shadow to cast a play than King Lear .

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 16, 2008

Noir comedy

Adrfit in Macao lives up to its name
As in Casablanca , whose transient denizens are waiting for visas, most of Macao is just waiting — as if for Godot.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 16, 2008

Nerds and music

2 Pianos 4 Hands scores at MRT
At least the cast of 2 Pianos 4 Hands doesn’t try to play Chopin.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 07, 2008

The best on the boards

Theatre: 2007 in review
There have been a few muggings on the rialto this year.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 17, 2007

Trinity looks inside Memory House
Memory Lane is a blocked road for high-school senior Katia, who’s asked to pound on the barricade for a college-application essay that must be postmarked by midnight tonight, New Year’s Eve.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 12, 2007

From ma’am, with love

No Child . . . at the ART, plus This Wonderful Life and White Christmas
Nilaja Sun could have caved to expectation.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 09, 2007

The boxer and the Bard

Tunney/Shakespeare in Six Rounds yields no winner
Was it Muhammad Ali who advocated a lot of dancing before landing a punch?

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 27, 2007

Vietnam and Victoriana

The Huntington’s Streamers ; SpeakEasy’s Edwin Drood
War is hell in Streamers — and few of the characters have even been to one.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 19, 2007

Sound Czech

Tom Stoppard fuses the history and the music in Rock ’n’ Roll
Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll begins in 1968 in an English garden, where a piper perched atop an ivied wall is serenading a stretched-out blonde flower child.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 13, 2007

Rabbit forming

Donnie Darko, plus The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird
For further indication of the darkening zeitgeist, consider the personae of imaginary rabbits.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 16, 2008

After the fall

Sweeney Todd ; Macbeth ; A House with No Walls
The evil is boiled down in the revival of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and that makes for a stew far tastier than Mrs. Lovett’s human-hamburger pies.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 30, 2007

Grief encounter

The Huntington’s Brendan and the Lyric’s Dying City
The protagonist of Ronan Noone’s Brendan bestrides the narrow world, but hardly like a colossus.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 25, 2007

College boards

Truth meets satire in The Pursuit of Happiness
Overachieving Maine teen Jodi has a bone to pick with the Founding Fathers.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 15, 2007

History tour

Zeitgeist’s compelling Kentucky Cycle; Double Edge’s Republic of Dreams
Whitewash has floated like a soap scum on the bloodbath of America’s past as told in the history books.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 09, 2007

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