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Play by play: April 30, 2010

Theater listings, week of April 30, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 28, 2010

Play by play: April 23, 2010

Theater listings, week of April 23, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 21, 2010

Play by play: April 16, 2010

Theater listings for the week of April 16, 2010
Theater listings for the week of April 16, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 15, 2010

Play by play: April 9, 2010

Theater listings, April 9, 2010
Theater listings, April 9, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 06, 2010

Portraits of artists

Opus at New Rep; From Orchids to Octopi at Central Square
Yikes! Is this really what it’s like behind the scenes with, say, the Emerson String Quartet?
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 06, 2010

Play by play: April 2, 2010

Theater listings, week of April 2, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 01, 2010

Play by play: March 26, 2010

Theater listings, March 26, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 25, 2010

Legacy of Light at the Lyric; Not Enough Air from Nora; The Island of Slaves from Orfeo Group
Playwright Karen Zacarias would seem to have taken long drafts of Tom Stoppard Elixir.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 17, 2010

Play by play: December 25, 2009

Theater listings, December 25, 2009
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 23, 2009

2009: The year in theater

Stage worthies
A quick look at this past year in Boston's theater scene.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 21, 2009

Play by play: December 18, 2009

Theater listings, week of December 18
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 16, 2009

Play by Play: December 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater listings: December 12, 2009
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2009

Play by Play: December 4, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 02, 2009

Play by play: October 23, 2009

Boston theater listings, October 23, 2009
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 21, 2009

Play by play: October 16, 2009

This week's theater listings
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 14, 2009

Play by play: October 9, 2009

Theater listings
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 07, 2009

The games people play

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Caretaker; Little Black Dress
Who’s afraid of Edward Albee?
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 07, 2009

Play by Play: October 2, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 30, 2009

Play by Play: September 25, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Autumn garden

Fall on Boston boards
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 14, 2009

Play by Play: May 1, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 28, 2009

Play by Play: April 24, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 22, 2009

Play by play: April 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 14, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 08, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2009

Of myth and men

The ART’s Communist Dracula Pageant ; the Publick’s Faith Healer
There is more pageantry than either Stalinism or Stoker in The Communist Dracula Pageant , Anne Washburn’s ambitious jumble of a Romanian-history play now in its world premiere from the American Repertory Theatre.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 28, 2008

Vintage mirth and vintage laughter

Hay Fever at the Publick; A Flea in Her Ear in Williamstown
Coward is said to have written the play in three days, in the wake of a nerve-racking weekend at the country home of American actress Laurette Taylor and her British-playwright husband.
By CAROLYN CLAY | August 04, 2008

Killing grounds

The Seagull flies at the Publick; Company One knocks off Assassins
Chekhov wrote to a friend while composing The Seagull , first of his Big Four, that he was writing a “comedy with three female parts, six male parts, four acts, a landscape (a view of the lake), much talk about literature, and five tons of love.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 15, 2008

The war games

The Huntington’s The Cry of the Reed ; Travesties by the Publick
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 15, 2008

Dysfunction junction

A Delicate Balance; The Gibson Girl; Some Men
A Delicate Balance is 40 years old now, but like the patrician clan at the frightened heart of it, the play has good bones.
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 25, 2008