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Bard in the USA

Next season's greetings from the American Repertory Theatre
"You know," Paulus observes, "we are the American Repertory Theatre, and we haven't spent a lot of time in the repertoire on American drama."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 15, 2009

Play by play: April 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 14, 2009

Tough neighborhoods

The ART enlists Trojan Barbie
From Helen of Troy to Barbie of the plastic hourglass, men and girls have been inspired by impossible ideals of female physical perfection. Helen, of course, will always have Paris, whereas Mattel's muse gets stuck with Trojan Barbie.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 07, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 08, 2009

My two Dads

Chazz Palminteri recycles A Bronx Tale
For those still jonesing for The Sopranos , Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale (at the Colonial Theatre through April 5) may provide a somewhat sanitized fix.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 07, 2009

Interview: Ricky Jay

Ricky Jay discusses his latest work, A Rogue's Gallery: An Evening of Conversation & Performance
"There are people who react strangely. I've had people who will clutch rosary beads or throw glasses."

By: JON GARELICK | April 01, 2009

Crucibles

The Wrestling Patient at the BCA; the Lyric's Speech & Debate
There was room for more than one young Jewish diarist in the occupied Amsterdam of World War II. Anne Frank, who died as a teen, is a 20th-century icon. But until recently, her feisty innocence hid Etty Hillesum's fire.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 31, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2009

Chazz Palminteri tells the tale

The Bronx is up
You may not recognize actor/writer Chazz Palminteri by name, but you definitely know his face.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 26, 2009

Rash relations

The Pain and the Itch from Company One at the BCA, Fool for Love at New Rep, Bad Dates at MRT
The Pain and the Itch will make you wince if not scratch — your head, that is.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Play by Play: March 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Fighting Rome

Two Men of Florence at the Huntington; Coriolanus at the Armory
It takes chutzpah for a first-time playwright to get into the ring with Bertolt Brecht.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 17, 2009

Spring awake

Local stages bloom
Head to the American Repertory Theatre's Zero Arrow Theatre for the world premiere of Christine Evans's TROJAN BARBIE (March 28–April 22).

By: LIZA WEISSTUCH | March 17, 2009

Play by Play: March 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 18, 2009

Material girls

Trinity uncovers Hare's Secret Rapture
The usually evenhanded if impassioned David Hare in The Secret Rapture , a 20-year-old play being urgently, elegiacally revived by Trinity Repertory Company.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 10, 2009

Play by Play: March 13, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 10, 2009

The center of the universe

Renaissance man Richard Goodwin explores the roots of religious wars by channeling anti-hero Galileo in the play Two Men of Florence .
Real-life quantum leaper Richard Goodwin was sort of a 1960s political Zelig — everywhere you looked, there he was.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 10, 2009

Death and transfiguration

Fugard at New Rep, plus Spalding Gray , Conor McDermottroe, and The Random Caruso
There are some playwrights whose work makes you think that a night at the theater is going to be an eat-your-vegetables affair, but then you see a sharp production of one of their plays and you realize the menu is meatier than you had remembered.

By: ED SIEGEL | March 03, 2009