Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Our Town at Riverside Theatre Works made me cry. So, if you are one of the few people on the planet that don’t know the basic premise of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, please stop reading this review and purchase your tickets for Riverside Theatre Works’ production, which is only open for a couple more weeks. [...]

The American Repertory Theater’s spring festival, America: Boom, Bust and Baseball, presented it’s second offering at the Loeb Drama Center this week.  Falling under the label “Bust”, Clifford Odet’s Paradise Lost is a pithy tale of loss in the wake of the Great Depression which has some startling, and at times disturbing similarities to our [...]

If you’re looking for one-of-a-kind theatrical experiences, the American Repertory Theatre is always happy to oblige.  I have had the pleasure of dozens of evenings at A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center, but never have I attended a production as epic as Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz.  This gargantuan six-hour piece is more than a word-for-word reading of [...]