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DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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KING JOHN IN SHINY GOLD CONVERSE AT THE BCA

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted February 13, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

It’s all about symbolism. And if you can get past the Shakespearean speech and structure, it works. 

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: BCA, Daniel Boudreau, Jane Reagan, Kimberly Gaughan, King John, Praxis Stage, shakespeare

LOL ON TRAGEDY

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted January 2, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

A speedy taste of all things Shakespeare

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Abridged, Charlestown Working Theater, parody, review, shakespeare, theater

NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE BELIEVED: CYMBELINE SPUTTERS ON THE BOSTON COMMON

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted July 31, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

The cast of Cymbeline. Shakespeare on the Common 2019. Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva.

 

★★☆☆☆

 

Confusing. Haphazard. Far-Fetched. Convoluted.

 

For centuries, such words have been used repeatedly to describe Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s rarely staged late tragicomedy ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Fred Sullivan Jr, Jeanine Kane, Kelby T Akin, Mihir Kumar, Nora Eschenheimer, shakespeare, Theater Review, Tony Estrella

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW: SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET AT HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted March 20, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Company of Romeo and Juliet. Photo by T. Charles Erickson

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: George Hampe, huntington theatre company, Lily Santiago, Matthew J. Harris, Nancy E. Carroll, Peter DuBois, shakespeare, Theater Review, Will Lyman

SEEDS OF MISTRUST IN A.R.T.’S OTHELLO

Written by JUAN A. RAMIREZ Posted January 23, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

Othello, William Shakespeare’s quintessential tale of race-baiting political treachery, has more connections to contemporary society than one might care to admit (or write down). As observed in the Oregon Shakespeare ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Cambridge, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, shakespeare, Theater Review

LAND HO, SO-SO: TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHIPWRECKED! IN REP AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Photo courtesy of Moonbox Productions.

 

★★☆☆☆

 

If Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy Twelfth Night has picked up his (sometimes misbegotten) ideas of love from hearing enchanting strains of music, Louis de ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston, Donald Margulies, moonbox productions, shakespeare, theater

A MODERN VERSE MACBETH THIS WAY COMES

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 4, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Nael Nacer as Macbeth and Maurice Parent as Banquo. Photo by Nile Scott Shots.

 

★★★☆☆

 

This new season at Actors’ Shakespeare Project—the first under artistic director Christopher V. Edwards, who took over from Allyn Burrows last year—is a welcome change of pace for the troupe that has of late been presenting, well, mostly Shakespeare.   

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Brookline, Christopher V Edwards, Dawn M. Simmons, Macbeth, Migdalia Cruz, shakespeare

A BOY IN LIMBO, LOOKING FOR SHAKESPEARE: HAMNET AT ARTSEMERSON

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 28, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Ollie West. Photo by Gianmarco Bresadola.

★★★☆☆

 

Given the choice of to be or not to be, Hamnet Shakespeare can’t fathom why anyone would ever choose not to be. And being that he’s had over 400 years to think about it, I guess you could say the boy’s given the matter some thought.

 

Hamnet, only son ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: ArtsEmerson, Ben Kidd, Bush Moukarzel, Dead Centre, Hamnet, Ollie West, shakespeare

NAKED VILLAINY UNDER THE STARS: RICHARD III ON THE COMMON

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted August 3, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Faran Tahir in Richard III, Shakespeare on the Common 2018. Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva.

 

★★★★☆

 

It’s been only five months since the last production of Richard III hit Boston, so I was relatively unenthused when Commonwealth Shakespeare Company announced it as their ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Bobbie Steinbach, Boston Common, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Deb Martin, Eric Southern, Faran Tahir, Jessica Pabst, Nathan Leigh, Remo Airaldi, Richard III, shakespeare, Steven Maler

IN CHELSEA, ONE HELL OF A DREAM: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AT APOLLINAIRE THEATRE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted July 25, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

The cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo by Danielle Fauteux Jacques

 

★★★★★

 

If there’s only one thing you do this week, it should be to find time to get to Chelsea’s PORT Park to catch Apollinaire Theatre Company’s practically perfect (and free) production of William Shakespeare’s A ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Apollinaire Theatre, Benjamin Finn, Brooks Reeves, Cassie Foote, chelsea, Chris Bocchiaro, Danielle Fauteux Jacques, David Picariello, David Reiffel, Demetrius Fuller, Erik P Kraft, Jaime Hernandez, Joey C Pelletier, John Manning, John Vellante, Kelly Young, Marc Poirier, Michael John Ciszewski, Olivia Z Cote, Samuel Warton, shakespeare, Susan Paino, Tony Dangerfield

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