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CAROLYN CLAY

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Best on the boards

A year in theater
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 19, 2006

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Best on the boards

 Certainly Nicholas Martin will leave the Huntington a livelier place than when he took over.
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 20, 2007

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Regrets/Rockettes

  Dublin Carol ; The Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Scrooge is inclined to blame a mean night before Christmas on a badly digested bit of beef or a blob of mustard.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2006

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Psycho Santa

Ryan Landry’s Silent Night of the Lambs
Ryan Landry takes a holiday hatchet to The Silence of the Lambs in his latest outing for the Gold Dust Orphans, serving up Kris Kringle with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 05, 2006

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Flights of angels

Wings of Desire takes the stage
In Wim Wenders’s iconic 1987 film Wings of Desire , the Berlin Wall is a character. In Ola Mafaalani’s theatricalization of the work for Toneelgroep Amsterdam and the American Repertory Theatre, the Fourth Wall is.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 05, 2006

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Kids’ stuff

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant ; Exceptions to Gravity
As the world’s most famous Scientologist honeymoons in the Maldives, junior-bird-man havoc is being wreaked on Tom Cruise’s ideology of choice.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 28, 2006

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Dancing queen

Kirsten Childs’s Bubbly Black Girl effervesces for SpeakEasy
Don’t anyone break Viveca Stanton’s bubble; she has a whole musical in which to do it herself.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 21, 2006

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Life and death

Rabbit Hole   from the Huntington; Twelve Angry Men at the Colonial
When the author is David Lindsay-Abaire, what you expect from a play called Rabbit Hole is Alice, not astrophysics.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 13, 2006

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Satire versus spoof

Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley ; A.R. Gurney’s Screen Play
The American media have long pigged out on titillation and tragedy. And in After Ashley , Gina Gionfriddo has written a frighteningly funny work about that particular eating disorder.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  November 08, 2006

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Under the influence

The Ice-Breaker at New Rep; Aunt Dan and Lemon at Merrimack
A whole lot of thawing goes on in The Ice-Breaker, David Rambo’s stew of global and romantic warming, which is heating up New Repertory Theatre.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 31, 2006

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Stamping grounds

Mauritius ; Stuff Happens ; 9 Parts of Desire  
Theresa Rebeck’s new Mauritius makes philately seem almost as exciting as the activity it sounds like.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 24, 2006

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Out of Ireland

A Night in November ; By the Bog of Cats
You hardly know whether to exude an exculpatory tear or a banshee scream this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 18, 2006

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Rock and droll

High Fidelity ; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
High Fidelity tries to sell itself as kick-ass rock right from the curtain speech: you are to turn off your fucking cell phones, and if you don’t like that language you can “grab your husband and get the hell out.”
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 11, 2006

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Class acts

Stan Strickland , Thom Pain (based on nothing) , and Augusta
Stan Strickland doesn’t play an instrument; he is an instrument.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 03, 2006

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Dying breeds

The Cherry Orchard , The Women , Summer and Smoke
Chekhov insisted that his final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard , was a comedy and fumed at Stanislavsky’s having his characters suffer through their fraying existences at the pace of a Robert Wilson opus.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 27, 2006

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Groundbreakers

Radio Golf ; bobrauschenbergamerica ; I Am My Own Wife
As the Huntington Theatre Company mounts Radio Golf , the ghost in the rafters is that of Wilson, who died last October at 60, soon after completing this final piece of his grand project chronicling decade by decade the African-American experience of the last 100 years.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 20, 2006

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Players and painted stage

Fall on the Boston boards  
It seems the fall theater season was shot from a gun this year, barely after the Labor Day picnic baskets had been packed away.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 13, 2006

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Passion by proxy

Via Dolorosa ; Calvin Berger
Via Dolorosa, British playwright David Hare’s eloquently reported account of his 1997 fact-finding mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories, is not up to the minute. But that’s hardly the point.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  September 05, 2006

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Princesses

Cinderella in Beverly and Ogunquit, Martha Mitchell Calling in Lenox
Cinderella has been making her way around New England stages, and whether she had fairy or gold dust in her eyes depended on where you caught up with her.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 29, 2006

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Dead ringers

Ring Round the Moon at Barrington Stage; Double Double at Williamstown
The Doublemint Twins in The Parent Trap would not be out of place on Berkshires stages this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  August 22, 2006
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