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"Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination."
The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.
It is hard to figure out just what playwright Winnie Holzman is up to in Choice: is this a supernatural sit-com?
The Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller's 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Bridge Rep Theater director Olivia D'Ambrosio has not taken message-mongering to heart in this lively production of a rarely produced play.
It is no longer enough for a playwright to go into the belly of the 'beast' and pray for help.
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The things that go bump in the night are a pretty gooey lot in Ghost Quartet.
"When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back."
"Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days."
"For artists involved in doing ensemble devising, there is tremendous value in the creative challenge on every level of seeing how high and how far you can go as an artist."
For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC's version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.
In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn't found a language that conveys irrational longing.
Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.
An amiable musical revue about two guys who kick up their heels after global warming finally boils over.
Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.
God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.
Had Daniil Kharms' texts been available at the high tide of the Theater of the Absurd, his plays would be performed alongside those of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.
"The aspiration in presenting these works together is that a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac might finally be realized or acknowledged by both general readers and scholars."
This wonder work from Canadian director Robert Lepage isn't here for much time, alas.
Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.
After reading the supposedly offensive article in the American Mercury, the judge said: "No one but a moron could be affected by it."
The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage's cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
Over the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America -- the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
May Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) fill the Loeb Drama Center to the brim and then some.
