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Last supper
"Denmark's a prison," opined Hamlet some 400 years ago.
Suite stuff
Forget the Hotel California; welcome to the Hotel Tennessee.
Parent flap
If Lord of the Flies wanted an upscale-urban bookend, it could do worse than God of Carnage (presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the BU Theatre through February 5).
Scarlet fever
Mark Rothko sees red in Red — and not just when staring hard at his iconic Seagram murals.
In memoriam
Why did news of David Wheeler's death last week come as such a shock?
Moveable feast
Guns go off in Uncle Vanya. And in Apollinaire Theatre Company's production (at Chelsea Theatre Works through January 22), the title character is one of them.
When it came to home teams vs. visitors, audiences were the winners
It's been the visitors versus the home teams this year.
Wasted
The most shocking thing about High (at the Cutler Majestic Theatre through December 11) is not that Kathleen Turner plays a nun.
Death takes a holiday
Instead of sugarplums, New Repertory Theatre is serving up funeral meats.
Fats entertainment
If the current campaign against obesity means we have to hate Fats Waller, well, to hell with it.
Louisiana purchase
Symbolism blows over swampland in The Brother/Sister Plays , a hypnotic trilogy making its area debut courtesy of Company One (at the BCA Plaza through December 3).
In the Heights
I have been looking forward to this Obie-winning allegory built on Ibsen's A Doll's House since it opened in New York in 2003.
Autumn garden
Fear of mortality is a domino in Before I Leave You, the play with which 72-year-old dramatist Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, who has been flexing her inky fingers in Cambridge for 40 years, enters the big time.
Will power
Tina Packer has been in bed with Shakespeare for at least 40 years.
Before and aphra
Liz Duffy Adams's dramaturgical homage, Or, , is more florid than floral and sometimes clever bordering on cute. But the play, being given a brisk area premiere by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston (through November 6), is ingenious.
Finn tuning
Compared to the mighty Mississippi, Big River is just a Tony-winning tributary. But to borrow a lyric from its composer, Roger Miller, the show climbs on the river's back and rides.
Stage worthies
Fall came early to Boston boards this year, bringing with it "Summertime."
The A.R.T. streamlines a classic
So shoot me, Porgy purists. To my mind, the retooling of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess for American Repertory Theater is compelling enough to push past quibbles.
Dockside doll's house
What if Nora Helmer had waited until she turned 70 to slam that door heard 'round the world?
Patriot game
Red Hot Patriot is the work of twin-sister journalists Margaret and Allison Engel, the former the head of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which awards journalism fellowships, the latter communications director for the University of Southern California.
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