A thought-provoking answer to the shameful, “Woody who?” Continue reading
Author Archives: JONATHAN CLARK
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FROM THE AISLE: MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
On March 9th, the Huntington Theatre Company will open Wilson’s 1984 play, which focuses on a recording session of early blues musicians. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: TIME STANDS STILL
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies tackles love and war in Lyric Stage’s Time Stands Still. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: FEN & A NUMBER
Whistler in the Dark explore the dark, complex work of Caryl Churchill in “Wanted Something,” which features the plays Fen and A Number. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: RED
There is something deeper going on here, about the nature of generational artistic progress, about the ways in which we cling to our place in a given field, about what makes art seem in one moment so quintessentially now and other times obviously passé and antiquated. Even though I feel unequipped to pass judgment on one of his paintings, the play still was able to strike me. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: SUPERIOR DONUTS
Tracy Letts, author of the incredible epic “August: Osage County” proves he can be just as brilliant and effective working on a smaller scale. Continue reading
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GOD OF CARNAGE: FOUR-PART DISHARMONY
“Oh, this is an hour and twenty minutes of people behaving really, really badly. The play isn’t a comment on parenting but how we interact as people as a society—with disdain or lack of compassion. Parenting is a metaphor to bring a level of understanding,” Director Daniel Goldstein tells the Dig. “That’s what art is meant to do. Show us a little bit more about what it is about what it is to be a person.” Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: THE BEST PLAYS OF 2011
I can’t actually claim to be able to list the best plays of the year, as I didn’t see nearly all of them. I did, however, see nearly 40 of them, which, I would wager, is more than most. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: IMPROVBOSTON’S WHAT THE DICKENS?!?
One of the bigger surprises I’ve had in theater recently Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
The Falstaffian scholar Harold Bloom is highly critical of The Merry Wives of Windsor as not being up to Shakespeare’s genius. F*ck him. Go see it. Continue reading
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FROM THE AISLE: THREE PIANOS
Full disclosure: I’m a little drunk. I was going to wait until I sobered up to write this review, but then I thought, f*ck it … Continue reading
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PREVIEW: THREE PIANOS
Try saying “Schubertiads” three times fast—and make a drinkin’ game out of it. Continue reading
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