Steven Barkhimer

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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

The Woman in Black haunts Gloucester Stage
Line up your goosebumps: Gloucester Stage is rushing Halloween with a bit of Victorian hokum entitled The Woman in Black.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 02, 2008

Mad men

Orfeo’s Look Back in Anger; WHAT’s What the Butler Saw
Audiences must have developed shock absorbers over the course of the past 50 years.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 24, 2008

Winner takes all

The Four of Us at Merrimack Rep; Spin at Zeitgeist Stage Company
Itamar Moses takes the buddy vehicle and twists it early and often in The Four of Us.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 22, 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

Love bites

A Marvelous Party; Mr. Marmalade; Misalliance
Noël Coward may not have been born in a trunk, but he moved into one early.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 18, 2007

Dream time

Einstein's Dreams at MIT
MIT professor Alan Lightman's first novel Einstein's Dreams doesn't have a plot or developing characters.
By IAN SANDS | April 24, 2007

Freedom fighters

The Pillowman at New Rep; 1776 at Lyric Stage
Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which is getting its area premiere at New Repertory Theatre (at the Arsenal Center for the Arts through October 1), is a superficially clever play.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 12, 2006

Eternal questions

The Beard of Avon at the Publick; Happy Days at Gloucester
Bard or beard — that is the question.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 11, 2006

Alter ego

Jenny Chow is in good hands at WHAT
Jennifer Marcus is afraid, very afraid.
By IRIS FANGER | May 31, 2006

Snickers over knickers

The Lyric Stage airs Steve Martin’s Underpants
With fame often comes overexposure. But in Steve Martin’s The Underpants , which he adapted from German writer Carl Sternheim’s 1910 farce Die Hosen , the fame is over exposure.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 12, 2006

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