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Endgame at the ART

Death duties
"They give mirth astride of a grave," Beckett might just as well have written of Mankind. He did opine, in Endgame , that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 27, 2009

Play by Play: February 27, 2009

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

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 24, 2009

Daddys and lovers

The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage
The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 19, 2009

Play by play: February 20, 2009

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

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 17, 2009

A Raisin in the Sun at Trinity, Bad Jazz at Zeitgeist

Reviews of two plays
The centerpiece of George C. Wolfe's 1986 satire The Colored Museum is a scathing sketch called The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play . A Raisin in the Sun is the über-mama-on-the-couch play.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2009

Play by play: February 13, 2009

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

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 11, 2009

Daughter of Venus

The Zinn drum
Suffolk and BPT birth Daughter of Venus

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 03, 2009

Peter Morgan's Frost-Nixon

Keachy
Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon at the Colonial

By: STEVE VINEBERG | February 03, 2009

Play by Play: February 6, 2009

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

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 09, 2009

Bread and Puppet Theater returns

Sourdough politics
The Bread and Puppet Theater's Sourdough Philosophy Spectacle & Circus returns.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | January 26, 2009

SpeakEasy's The New Century, Cabaret at New Rep

Gay apparel
The New Century , a quartet of related short plays by Paul Rudnick, takes its name from the discount department store Century 21.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 26, 2009

Interview: Stacy Keach

Sympathy for the Devil
"He was Satan personified," says Stacy Keach, who has signed on to play our second-worst commander in chief in the national tour of Frost/Nixon.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | January 22, 2009

Review: The Seagull, The Corn Is Green

Tons of love
The Seagull begins with a theatrical experiment — a brief symbolist drama dreamed by young Konstantin Treplev, who's struggling toward artistic expression while endeavoring to showcase his girlfriend and impress his actress mother.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 20, 2009

Review: ASP's The Duchess of Malfi, Nora's The Cherry Orchard

Dying breeds
T.S. Eliot famously opined that John Webster saw "the skull beneath the skin."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2009

NSMT goes begging

Theater in the Red
Theater in the Red

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | January 07, 2009

Scenes 4 tweens

Troy, Gabriella, and the HSM2 crew put the music in them. Now our two quasi-theater critics are trying to get it out.
When I was a teenager, all I ever longed for was to live in a world where it was socially acceptable, nay, a social requirement , to frequently burst into song.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | January 07, 2009

Joan Didion on stage, Spalding Gray on the page

Grief watch
The 90-minute theater piece differs from the memoir in ways other than its relative slimness. It's more of a linear journey.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | January 07, 2009

Winter's tales

The cold season heats up on Boston boards
The cold season heats up on Boston boards

By: LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 29, 2008

Year in Theater: Staged right

Changing of the local guard
It's been a Buckingham Palace season on the local rialto.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | December 22, 2008

Adam Bock is a good listener

Talking the talk
When Adam Bock first came to Providence in the late '80s, after a friend told him there was this great playwriting teacher at Brown, he was busting with unstoppable aspiration

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 19, 2008

Arise and hail

Revels goes to Thomas Hardy's Wessex
"At first blush, Thomas Hardy seems an unlikely figure to associate with Revels." With due respect to Revels artistic director Patrick Swanson's program statement, this Hardy fanatic of almost 50 years begs to differ.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 16, 2008

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