How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.
This is an immigrant story that we've heard over and over again. Still, despite its familiarity, this particular quest for opportunity -- told in a wonderful and often funny mix of Spanish a…
By focusing on dialogue and artistic collaboration, Her Story Is explores what life is like for Iraqis, especially the country's women.
It is refreshing to encounter a script that is so determined to keep audiences off-kilter as it goes about undercutting domestic business as usual.
During his career as the founder and artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence (from 1964 to 1989), Adrian Hall achieved a lasting place in the American theater as a v…
Made in China 2.0 is valuable as an act of theatrical witnessing, the voice of a rebel who is facing considerable challenges from the powers that be.
The domestic demolition in Kate Snodgrass's script is served au flambé.
George Takei's musical, Allegiance, projects American democracy as it might have become.
Dave Malloy's musical takes us through the personal creative hell of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Some Like It Hot is a terrifically entertaining " and thoroughly modern " reinvention of the classic Hollywood comedy.
Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year haunted by COVID.
At its core, the Revels is about bringing together actors and audience, but there are several stagecraft successes to note this time around
The most mesmerizing characters in this stunningly visual production are brilliant life-size puppets.
This stunning, brand new production of UK's Life of Pi is stopping in Cambridge for a month or so before sailing down to Broadway.
In Broadway revivals, Topdog/Underdog is absolutely riveting, while Death of a Salesman feels forced and unconvincing.
Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?
The artistic and design team at the Central Square Theater, in partnership with CHUANG Stage, have come up with an effective, thought-provoking 90-minute journey into a depressing aspect of …
A.R.T Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page are at the helm of this well-meaning but irritating revival.
English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.
In his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.
The story has the earmarks of YA fiction: a community of dysfunctional adults contribute to the plight of alienated kids who, badgered by persecutors their own age, seek to escape their torm…
Like a magic show where you know you're being duped and enjoy it all the same, Reiser's act was something you just settled back and enjoyed without analyzing it too much.
Despite some missteps and miscasting bumps along the way, this staging faithfully captures playwright August Wilson's searing poetic vision.
Two stirring dramas hit Broadway, one weightier than the next