Ken Ludwig’s “Baskerville” is a breathless, funny, and improbably cinematic romp through a venerable melodrama.
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Groundbreaking in 1984, “The Great Celestial Cow” Now Feels Behind the Times
Playwright Sue Townsend attempted to place the concerns of Indian women in England on a national stage, but the play shows its thirty-five years of age.
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A New Theater Company Finds Uneasy Comedy in Tennessee Williams’s Auto Da Fé
Monkey Paw/Monkey Claw’s inaugural production captured the hypocrisy but not the humanity of someone torn between their religious prejudice and their own sexuality.
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An Agnostic Comedian Threads the Needle between Islam and Christianity in Zara
“On the dinner menu of religious beliefs, agnosticism is the baked tilapia,” Andrew Aghapour says. “No one’s excited to order it; it’s just there in case you’re allergic to everything else.”
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Kidd Pivot Carves an Intense Vision of Contemporary Corruption Out of a Nineteenth-Century Satire
Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, a recent ADF sensation, deconstructs Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector in Revisor.
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Bonnie & Clyde Is the Musical Theater Equivalent of a Dime-Store Novel
Now playing at NRACT, the musical erases the seamier facts behind the young couple who were celebrated as folk heroes for robbing banks during the Great Depression.
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A Couple Pursues Love Throughout the Multiverse in Constellations
Stage directions are usually the least interesting part of a script, but the one at the start of Nick Payne’s thought experiment grabs your attention.
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Carolina Ballet Finds Ample Emotional Bandwidth in Its Evening of Bernstein and Robbins
The show contrasts the brash, broad-shouldered Fancy Free with Robbins’s introspective Afternoon of a Faun.
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Street Punks Siege Athens in a Cathartic Shakespeare Update
Bare Theatre plunges Timon of Athens into the greed and grit of 1980s clubland.
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Reason Is Beset by Faith and Politics, in Galileo’s Time as in Ours
Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo runs at PlayMakers through Sunday, Mar. 17.