I will admit, I’ve had a lot of trouble deconstructing my thoughts on this piece. I struggle to be the one to speak against the popular opinion, notably those in awe of the use of technology in this supposedly progressive piece.  But does that really make something new and unique? Does it make something [...]

I walked into the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center on a cold February evening to find it abuzz with excitement. The lobby was packed with people of all kinds waiting to be let into the theater for a new translated version of Sophocles’ epic war tragedy Ajax. The experience began in the lobby with [...]

A.R.T.’s presentation of “The Blue Flower” is a stunning feat both musically and visually.  The audience is thrust into a time warp, maybe to a simpler time, immediately upon entering the theatre.  This isn’t just some time warp though, with unsettling pieces such as mannequin body parts scattered throughout the space.  The audience collectively knows [...]

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 [...]

William Shakespeare would have rolled over in his grave if he had heard last night’s performance of Best Of Both Worlds at the A.R.T.- but only to get his ear closer to the magnificent sound! In the true spirit of the long dead king of writers, Randy Weiner, Diedre Murray and Diane Paulus have re-imagined [...]