Play by Michael Hollinger Directed by Jim Petosa With Shelley Bolman, Benjamin Evett, Michael Kaye, Becky Webber, Bates Wilder New Repertory Theatre Arsenal Center for the Arts Watertown, MA ” When Ben Evett walks on stage with his violin at the opening of this wonderful drama about the life of a string quartet, he looks […]
Plays
Becky Shaw
Play by Gina Gionfriddo Directed by Peter DuBois With Maureen Anderman, Seth Fisher, Wendy Hoopes, Eli James, Keira Naughton Huntington Theatre Company at Boston University Theatre, Boston, MA What a wonderful comedy of terrible, caustic manners this is. The stage of the Boston University Theatre comes bitterly alive under the auspices of this tight and […]
Paradise Lost
by Clifford Odets Directed by Daniel Fish American Repertory Theatre Cambridge, MA This is a big and long play, in three acts, and each of the first two runs almost an hour. The first act is heavily populated by characters, and decentered in action in not a particularly anticipatory way. The setting is the home […]
How I Learned To Drive
by Paula Vogel Directed by Tara L. Matkosky Boston Center for American Performance Boston University College of Fine Arts I had a great feeling about this production when I walked in and saw the sleek, fluorescent road divider arching up into the distance. It was the only fixed element of the set (designed by Caitlin […]