★★★★☆ Beneath the cavernous gothic arches of a church nave, two men sit hunched over a wooden table. “Your works will last,” Prime Minister Robert Cecil tells Master Shagspeare in the opening scene of Equivocation. “I believe your plays will still be being done … 50 years from now,” he guesses, to the […]
A RIVETING RICHARD III AT ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
★★★★☆ Richard III is the third production of Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s current season, themed “The Downfall of Despots.” It follows Exit the King, an absurdist comedy about an incompetent king who has run his country into the ground, and Julius Caesar, a look at the perils of rhetoric-loving, narcissistic politicians. The parallels […]
BEST OF BOSTON THEATER: 2017 EDITION
A year to remember, from ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ to ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ to ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
THE EDGE OF EDWARD
Maurice Emmanuel Parent talks reinventing Marlowe
NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S HAMLET
Omar Robinson stars in ASP’s hotly anticipated Hamlet
SIZING UP THE SEASON
Big plans ahead for local theaters
YEAR IN REVIEW: STAGE SPOTLIGHT
A look at 2014’s most memorable Boston theater experiences.
