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The Birthday Party
By Sandy MacDonald · Mar 16, 2004 · Boston
Harold Pinter has a knack for putting the audience in the position of a frightened child. You've just seen something scary but exactly what remains inchoate -- future grist for an analyst. Critics hav...
The Gigolo Confessions of Baile Breag
By Caroline Burlingham Ellis · Feb 3, 2004 · Boston
It can be exciting to see a promising talent emerge -- for example, the young playwright of The Gigolo Confessions of Baile Breag, now in its world premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts. In Ronan...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By Sandy MacDonald · Jan 19, 2004 · Boston
Is more than a dash of magic too much to ask in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream? Martha Clarke's take on Shakespeare's fizziest comedy for the American Repertory Theatre is as somber as a st...
Snow in June
By Sandy MacDonald · Dec 8, 2003 · Boston
As one of the country's premier cultural institutions over the past 23 years, the American Repertory Theatre has made more than a few forays into artsy, over-intellectual pretentiousness. At first blu...
Looking Over the President's Shoulder
By Caroline Burlingham Ellis · Dec 8, 2003 · Boston
The set, sound, and lighting are the main events at Merrimack Repertory Theatre's production of the one-man play Looking Over the President's Shoulder. James Still's regional theater favorite about th...
As You Like It
By Sandy MacDonald · Nov 14, 2003 · Boston
In a spate of pre-opening interviews about his decision to direct his first production of As You Like It, Sir Peter Hall, whose half-century of illustrious credits includes the founding of the Royal S...
Butley
By Sandy MacDonald · Oct 30, 2003 · Boston
Ben Butley, a prickly lecturer in English at a fictional British college, is having what could only be termed a horrendous day. His estranged wife turns up at his hovel of an office (Alexander Dodge's...
He She Them
By Sandy MacDonald · Oct 7, 2003 · Boston
TV actors get no respect -- and after suffering through He She Them, an insipid romantic dramedy at the Shubert Theatre, it's easy to understand why. Whatever could have possessed Judd Nelson (the Bra...
Lady With a Lapdog
By Caroline Burlingham Ellis · Sep 19, 2003 · Boston
Anton Chekhov's short story Lady With a Lapdog has that Russian split personality which, rightly or wrongly, observers such as psychoanalyst Erik Erikson have attributed to swaddling clothes -- passiv...
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