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If at age 15 anyone had told me that Miguel de Cervantes’ celebrated chivalric novel Don Quixote could someday become a poignant social commentary on the reality of 21st-century America, I would have probably laughed in disbelief.
Growing up in ...
Boston’s larger stages don’t need to be more like the movies. They need to be more like the small stages.
Christine Ebersole was driving to White Plains, New York, when she called me. The two-time Tony Winner (42nd Street and Grey Gardens ...
This 2018 edition of the best of Boston theater is the fourth time I’ve sat down to compile such a list but the first time I haven’t struggled to fill it. Last year, I capped the list at seven because the thought of shoving things in just to get to 10 hurt my soul.
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A gentle Caribbean breeze gets caught in a storm of violent masculinity in Man in the Ring, Michael Cristofer’s play about the life of boxer Emile Griffith. In a first-rate ...
A year to remember, from 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf' to 'Merrily We Roll Along' to 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'
This is also an opportunity, all around, to strengthen what is already considered by many to be a perfect production.
“Well, you know, it’s a good step, but all the stuff that was there before the black president is still there and still festering and still brewing.”
Though style occasionally prevailed over substance in this exhilarating revival of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play, this Sean Holmes-directed revival is one of the most well-conceived productions of this decade.
