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Tender mercenaries

Foote's Estate moves to Hartford
If Chekhov had been home on the range instead of the steppes, he would have been Horton Foote.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | June 10, 2009

Play by Play: June 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | June 11, 2009

Interview: Roberto Benigni

TuttoDante, Benigni's one-man show
"Dante is talking to everybody, not just in the Middle Ages."

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 03, 2009

Play by Play: June 5, 2009

Plays A to Z
Boston's theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | June 02, 2009

The Huntington plunders Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
"Ladies and gentlemen," a cheerful female voice informs the Huntington Theatre audience, "the Caribbean Light Opera Society is proud to present Pirates! (Or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd)." The governor, she continues, wants to assure us that there is almost no danger of a pirate attack during the performance.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 27, 2009

Play by play: May 29, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 27, 2009

Cracking the wise

Mamet’s Romance with ART; ASP’s Much Ado About Nothing
I don’t know that David Mamet’s is a fine Romance , and it certainly doesn’t conjure love at first scene.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | May 20, 2009

Play by Play: May 22, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 19, 2009

Odd couples

The Lyric's Grey Gardens; Trinity's Shapeshifter
The East Hampton Board of Health would doubtless approve Grey Gardens: The Musical , since it comes minus the crapping cats, feral raccoons, and piles of garbage that form the supporting cast and unsanitary milieu of the famed documentary on which it's based.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | May 12, 2009

Boston Theater Marathon XI

Schedule of plays
BOSTON THEATER MARATHON XI, SCHEDULE OF PLAYS, SUNDAY MAY 17

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 14, 2009

Play by Play, May 15, 2009

Plays for A to Z
Theater in town

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 12, 2009

Play by Play, May 8, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 07, 2009

Sensations

Reviews of Spring Awakening at the Colonial; Jerry Springer: The Opera at SpeakEasy
Unlike its predecessor, the over-hyped Rent , Spring Awakening is the genuine item: a Tony-winning amalgam of theater and pop music that smells like teen fusion.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | May 06, 2009

Hemp — the law, the musical

Dept. of Really Strange Bedfellows
When liberal congressmen like Barney Frank begin co-sponsoring bills with libertarians like Ron Paul, there must be something funny in the air.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 29, 2009

The Earth moves

The Life of Galileo ; Spring Awakening ; Picasso at the Lapin Agile
There is an element of bare-bones pageantry in Brecht's play — which, the dramatist being a Marxist, has as much to say about knowledge and the marketplace as it does about the father of modern science's impassioned head butt to the opiate of the people.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 28, 2009