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Lincoln Yule log

The Huntington celebrates A Civil War Christmas
Abraham Lincoln, as he said in his second inaugural address, yearned to "bind up the nation's wounds." Since the great man was assassinated little more than a month later, he didn't quite get around to it. No worry, Paula Vogel has taken over the job with A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 24, 2009

Dodging death

Reckless, The Salt Girl, and The Overwhelming
Even the sweetest life can shatter in an instant, sending you through the looking glass like Alice. For the euphoric heroine of Craig Lucas's 1988 fable of holiday festivity and arbitrary mayhem, Reckless the moment of reckoning comes when her husband tearfully confesses, on Christmas Eve, that he has taken out a contract on her life.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | November 18, 2009

Play by play: November 20, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 18, 2009

Play by Play: November 13, 2009

Plays from A to Z
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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 11, 2009

Play by play: November 6, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 04, 2009

Mars vs. Venus

Speed-the-Plow; The Taming of the Shrew; A Long and Winding Road
It’s been 21 years since Speed-the-Plow first milked the cravenness of Hollywood and the self-described “whores” who turn its celluloid tricks. But David Mamet’s scathing, staccato comedy has held up at least as well as Madonna, who made her Broadway debut in the original 1988 production.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 28, 2009

Play by play: October 30, 2009

Plays around town
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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 28, 2009

Awake! Awake!

Sleep No More brings Macbeth to Brookline
Sleep No More , the second entry in the American Repertory Theater’s mini-season of revisionist Shakespeare, is the least orthodox production of Macbeth you’re likely to see. In fact, it’s linked to Macbeth as much by poetic allusion as by narrative — which is to say that it’s a little of both.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | October 21, 2009

Only connect

The Lyric answers the call of Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Usually when a cell phone goes off in the theater, you want to kill someone. In the case of Dead Man’s Cell Phone , that’s not necessary.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 20, 2009

Play by play: October 23, 2009

Boston theater listings, October 23, 2009
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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

Play by play: October 16, 2009

This week's theater listings
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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 14, 2009

The games people play

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Caretaker; Little Black Dress
Who’s afraid of Edward Albee?

By: CAROLYN CLAY | October 07, 2009

Play by play: October 9, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 07, 2009

Play by Play: October 2, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 30, 2009

Black beauty

Fences, plus The Savannah Disputation and Mister Roberts
August Wilson pioneered a magical realism all his own.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | September 22, 2009

Play by Play: September 25, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Disco ball

The Donkey Show gets its kicks at the ART
C-dust pinch-hits for fairy dust in The Donkey Show , Diane Paulus & Randy Weiner's disco-set riff on A Midsummer Night's Dream . Forget the juice of "a little western flower" with which fairy king Oberon and hench-sprite Puck mix up the libidos of the hormone-drenched characters charging through Shakespeare's Athenian wood.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | September 17, 2009

Brush up your Porter

Kiss Me, Kate at the Lyric
With its supreme Cole Porter score and its robustly entertaining book by Sam and Bella Spewack, the 1948 Kiss Me, Kate is surely one of the half-dozen best Broadway musicals.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | September 16, 2009

Autumn garden

Fall on Boston boards
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | September 14, 2009

Play by play: September 18, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 17, 2009

Play by play: September 11, 2009

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By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 09, 2009

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