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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

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

Trinity Rep's powerful Raisin In the Sun
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

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

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

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

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

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

Year in Theater: Staged right

Changing of the local guard
It's been a Buckingham Palace season on the local rialto.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 22, 2008

Behind closed doors

Trinity fires off The Receptionist
Ricky Gervais meets Dick Cheney in The Receptionist.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 19, 2008

Review: Doubt

Nun story
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt on screen

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 12, 2009

Regifting

Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 12, 2008

Drag race

The Lyric cracks The Mystery of Irma Vep
Jane Twisden, the sinister housekeeper of The Mystery of Irma Vep , harbors a mad, secret passion for her employer, the aristocratic and manly Lord Edgar Hillcrest.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 05, 2008

Threshold of revelation

Einstein dreams in Central Square; Skylight is illumined in Lowell
Einstein dreams in Central Square; Skylight is illumined in Lowell

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 26, 2008

Sympathy for the Devil

Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Huntington; McPherson's The Seafarer at SpeakEasy
Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Huntington; McPherson's The Seafarer at SpeakEasy

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 24, 2008

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