★★★★☆ One house in Dresden becomes ground zero for a multigenerational exploration of guilt, complicity, survival, and truth in Marius von Mayenburg’s The Stone, which plays at Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre through Sept 29. The play is a complicated one, made even more difficult by the fact that that it jumps back […]
THE CHOICE MAY HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN: ONEGIN AT GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY
★★☆☆☆ That Eugene Onegin (both the Pushkin poem and the Tchaikovsky opera) would be considered a tale ripe for musical theaterization is not all that surprising. Oozing with romance and the ache of lost love, there are a great many innately dramatic things about the rise and fall of a cocky Russian playboy […]
A FEARLESS, AND THEREFORE POWERFUL, FRANKENSTEIN AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
★★★★☆ It’s likely that when you hear the name Frankenstein a very specific image comes to mind, one that probably involves green skin, stitches, and a pair of bolts. The first thing to know about this production of Frankenstein, which is the 2011 version written by Nick Dear, is that it definitely […]
