★★★★☆ SpeakEasy Stage, Boston, MA. Playwright Steven Drukman has a gift for writing people of different classes – the intelligentsia, and everyday working folk –
★★☆☆☆ The Sullivan Rep, This new outfit out of Newton, MA asserts the admirable goal of quality work on a local scale, with an emphasis
★★★☆☆ Umbrella Stage Company, Concord, MA. Did anyone really need a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky’s Network? A good question, one first asked when Lee
★★★☆☆ SpeakEasy Stage, Boston, MA. The tropical setting concocted by set designer Erik D. Diaz and lighting designer Amanda E. Fallon is so seductively wrought,
★★★☆☆ Central Square Theater, Cambridge. Three gifted women are having a ball playing all the roles in a British multigenre take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Dan Whelton, Erica Spyres, Paula Plum, Steven Barkhimer (l. to r.). Photo by Nile Hawver. The old gray Martha ain’t what she used to be.
Jon Robin Baitz’s “The Paris Letter” is one of the most thoughtful, as well as one of the most moving, works from this distinguished American
Little links these two world premiere plays for me, except that I saw them on consecutive nights and each is inspired by, and celebrates, a
As the current president of the LA Drama Critics Circle, I am so proud of our slate of 2011 recipients. I really think we came
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