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ED SIEGEL

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Fun with Matt & Ben at Central Square

Bosom buddies
A couple of young women, Brenda Withers and Mindy Kaling (the latter born in Cambridge before graduating to the role of Kelly Kapoor in The Office ), decided to have some fun with the idea that two seemingly unformed guys — one kind of loutish — could strike show-biz paydirt so quickly.
By ED SIEGEL  |  July 12, 2011

Ayckbourn's Table Manners

Living Together is no Table Manners

Less funny
Alan Ayckbourn's merry bunch of British squabblers have reunited for another pre-summer vacation at that North Shore theatrical haven, the Gloucester Stage Company.
By ED SIEGEL  |  June 24, 2011

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Silver Spoon takes the cake

Worse and worser
Could Silver Spoon, a musical celebration of '60s politics, be the worst piece of theater I've seen?
By ED SIEGEL  |  May 31, 2011

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Review: My Name Is Asher Lev at the Lyric

DOA
As the late Chaim Potok might have said, "Oy!"
By ED SIEGEL  |  February 16, 2011

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Review: The Method Gun

The Rude Mechs have a nutty Method
ArtsEmerson began its theatrical season by revisiting The Laramie Project , in which the Tectonic Theater Project interviewed Laramie citizens about the murder of Matthew Shepard.
By ED SIEGEL  |  October 14, 2010

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Review: The Laramie Residency

The Laramie Project updates itself at the Cutler Majestic Theatre
You can't accuse "The Laramie Residency" of being anything less than exhaustive in its four-and-a-half-hour series of interviews about the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder.
By ED SIEGEL  |  September 28, 2010

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Review: The Vibrator Play

Sarah Ruhl offers comic relief
Sarah Ruhl, the goddess of theatrical quirkiness, is back in Boston, and this time SpeakEasy Stage Company has its adventurous mitts on her.
By ED SIEGEL  |  September 21, 2010

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Gloucester Stage's 'Tender' is more mean than funny

Where turgid self-pity meets spiteful witlessness
"When am I going to stop feeling like such an asshole," asks Amanda, one of the three characters in Tender , which is getting its world premiere from Gloucester Stage (through July 25).
By ED SIEGEL  |  July 13, 2010

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Cool drink on a hot day

With Table Manners, Gloucester Stage gives Ayckbourn his due
Alan Ayckbourn has been often dismissed as the British Neil Simon. He's also been hailed as a playwright of such acute insight that, if you look beyond the laughs, he deserves to be mentioned in the same critical breath as Harold Pinter.
By ED SIEGEL  |  July 05, 2010

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Infinite pleasure

John Banville's playful universe
Admit it, fellow scribblers. You'd sell your soul to come up with an opening sentence like "Of the things we fashioned for them that they may be comforted, dawn is the one that works."
By ED SIEGEL  |  February 16, 2010

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Magic tricks

Alice Munro has them, Philip Roth doesn’t
You have to give a seventysomething writer credit for daring to begin a book with “He’d lost his magic.”
By ED SIEGEL  |  November 11, 2009

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Death and transfiguration

Fugard at New Rep, plus Spalding Gray , Conor McDermottroe, and The Random Caruso
There are some playwrights whose work makes you think that a night at the theater is going to be an eat-your-vegetables affair, but then you see a sharp production of one of their plays and you realize the menu is meatier than you had remembered.
By ED SIEGEL  |  March 03, 2009

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Blackbird at SpeakEasy

A play about a confrontation between two desperate nobodies.
The year 2007 was a banner one for British theater.
By ED SIEGEL  |  February 25, 2009

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Rooted

Jhumpa Lahiri tends her garden
Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize with her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies .
By ED SIEGEL  |  April 22, 2008

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Game faces

The Clean House at New Rep; Gary at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
There’s something awe-inspiring about watching an ensemble in which everyone is performing at the top of his or her game.
By ED SIEGEL  |  March 04, 2008

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The yenta monologues

Judy Gold’s Jewish-mother complex
What do you call a Conservative Jewish lesbian mother of two boys? Very funny, in the case of Judy Gold.
By ED SIEGEL  |  December 26, 2007

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Backstage masterpiece

Is Slings + Arrows better than The Sopranos?
As much as I adored The Sopranos , I have to wonder about the rush to anoint it the best television series ever.
By ED SIEGEL  |  July 03, 2007

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Don’t be afraid of the Dark

Murakami’s noirish novel is playful, too
The typical Haruki Murakami protagonist is torn between women who are unattainably gorgeous and those who are just unbelievably cute. An excerpt from Murakami's After Dark (mp3)
By ED SIEGEL  |  May 16, 2007

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The importance of being Ridiculus

Oscar Wilde at the ART
You wouldn’t think that an effective way into the heart of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest would be to play down the comedy’s slapstick farce, stentorian wit, fast pacing, or romantic heterosexuality.
By ED SIEGEL  |  January 02, 2007

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Players' prince

ASP Hamlet takes the Strand stage
This Hamlet is as lucid a production as you’re going to see.
By ED SIEGEL  |  October 24, 2006
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