Hamnet, the fascinating play, created by Ireland’s Dead Centre, now at ArtsEmerson’s Paramount Theatre in Boston revolves around Shakespeare’s only son. Over the years, scholars have speculated that Hamnet who died at age eleven in 1596 was the inspiration for Hamlet given the similarity of the two names. Many believe, as do playwrights Bush …
The great pity is that this high-energy rock musical is largely unintelligible. From flashing lights and the smoke of dry ice to booming sound, all the accoutrements of a rock concert are in place, but only rarely are the song lyrics or even the dialogue distinguishable.
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At the 1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, ON. As the final play of the season, British playwright Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine is a thoughtful choice. Telling the story of a discontented housewife in Liverpool, England, who seeks more for herself, it leaves comparatively deeper things to ponder than a good-natured musical or comedy does. …
Gioa De Cari’s autobiographical one-woman show Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze returned to the Central Square Theatre this September after nine years for a brief run. Although De Cari was a “recovering mathematician” at the time Harvard’s then president Lawrence Summers gave his 2004 speech in which he asserted the …
Ostermeier, la «Nuit» où «tout le monde est trans» Par Anne Diatkine — 20 septembre 2018 à 17:06 paru dans Libération. Le directeur de la Schaubühne à Berlin monte avec la Comédie-Française la pièce de Shakespeare «la Nuit des rois…» qui multiplie les jeux de rôle et de genre. Thomas Ostermeier à la Comédie-Française ? …
Written and Composed by Jason Robert Brown Originally Produced for the New York stage by Arielle Tepper and Marty Bell, Orpheus Musical Theatre Society. Directed by Kodi Cannon From the joy of meeting to the unravelling of love and back again, The Last Five Years is a poignantly told tale of a failed marriage. As …
Don’t Dress for Dinner By Robin Hawdon Adapted from Marc Camoletti’s French farce Kanata Theatre Directed by Peter Williams The kindest comment about Don’t Dress for Dinner is that it makes Marc Camoletti’s better known sex farce Boeing-Boeing look good. Although playwright Robin Hawdon’s adaptation/translation of Camoletti’s 1991 formulaic repeat was a West End success …
Stephen Adly Guirigis’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Between Riverside and Crazy now playing at Boston’s SpeakEasy is an extraordinary play, both funny and disturbing, performed by a wonderful cast. The protagonist is Walter Washington (Tyrees Allen), known as Pops, a black man and former police officer, who was shot eight years earlier when he …
Anie Richer and Lydia Riding in a scene from The Virgin Trial. Photo: Andrew Alexander. Posted on Artsfile.ca At one point in The Virgin Trial, Kate Hennig’s fleet, modern-day crime drama about Queen Elizabeth I as a teenager, the future monarch proclaims, “I can be anything I set my mind to.” It sounds like a …