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Gone but not forgotten

She Loves Me at the Huntington; plus Way Theatre Artists’ The Memory of Water
Before there was eHarmony, there were harmony and disharmony.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 27, 2008

Enter triumphant

This year’s Elliot Norton Awards
It was a Martin love fest Monday night at the 26th annual Elliot Norton Awards, Boston theater’s annual pat on the head.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 14, 2008

The Huntington’s The Cry of the Reed ; Travesties by the Publick
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 15, 2008

Rough magic

Shining City at the Huntington; ASP’s The Tempest
The cupboards of Irish dramaturgy are crammed with ghosts.
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 18, 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

Primary colors

It’s the political season on area stages
Now that the holiday hubbub is behind us, we have no dreams of white Christmases or visions of Sugar Plum Fairies to warm a theatergoer’s heart.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 26, 2007

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

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 | November 08, 2007

Theater of war

The Huntington revives Streamers
Director Scott Ellis doesn’t call David Rabe’s Streamers a play about war.
By IRIS FANGER | October 31, 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

Bye-bye blarney

Brendan introduces the American Ronan Noone
Ronan Noone is flummoxed.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | October 01, 2007

Channeling Hitchcock

The 39 Steps Lead from the Huntington to Broadway
The classic British hero is cool, collected, witty, slightly bored, well-mannered, and possessed of lightning-fast reflexes when needed.
By SALLY CRAGIN | September 04, 2007

Garry glitter

Present Laughter shines at the Huntington; plus Hillary and Monica
Youth may be “a stuff will not endure,” but Noël Coward’s Present Laughter — which takes its title from the Shakespearean ditty that tells us so — certainly does.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 29, 2007