‘Scenes From an Adultery’ may leave you cold
WATERTOWN — The playwright Ronan Noone, a native of Ireland who lives in Weymouth now and is an American citizen, says that he while he considers himself an American writer, in some ways… Continue reading
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‘God Box’ : A wandering Jew’s spiritual journey
WATERTOWN — We human beings are wired to find the humor in the most tragic, dark situations, as a way of keeping our sanity or as part of the healing or grieving process.… Continue reading
Don’t be a putz! Get to Brustein’s ‘The King’
WATERTOWN –– The millions of Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Western Europe and America in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries brought with them their hopes, their dreams, and a language: Yiddish.… Continue reading
‘Muckrakers’: Can transparency be taken too far?
WATERTOWN — The idea of what constitutes a journalist continues to be a moving target, as does the idea of what constitutes journalistic ethics, if indeed there should even be such a thing.… Continue reading
Cast, production values boost ‘The Little Prince’
WATERTOWN — I always thought “The Little Prince” spoke to adults more than children, and although I read it to my kids, I never knew what they understood and captured from it. The… Continue reading
‘Assassins’ explores the killers behind the deeds
WATERTOWN — The word is infamous. But the majority of the word “infamous” — which means “well known for some bad quality or deed” — is “famous” and the definition of the word… Continue reading
Singers prop up New Rep’s ‘Closer Than Ever’
WATERTOWN — Lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. is a storyteller, and he marries his stories to the music of David Shire in the musical revue “Closer Than Ever,” the opening production of the New… Continue reading
Wordiness wears on audience in ‘On The Verge’
WATERTOWN — How would you or I cope if somehow we were to find ourselves, through some miracle, thrust many decades into the future? Three very different adventure-seeking American women from 1888 set… Continue reading
New Rep’s ‘In Between’ is food for the soul
WATERTOWN — Depending on how you look at it, he is a man with two countries, or a man with no country. Playwright and performer Ibrahim Miari uses very personal experiences in his… Continue reading
Davenport leads sterling cast in ‘The Whipping Man’
WATERTOWN — War is hell. And that’s for the winners. For the losers, it’s that much worse. Slavery is a different kind of hell. The two different kinds of hell collide in… Continue reading