John Kuntz

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Brustein takes another look at Will's world

Bardic fun
Call it the revenge of Tom Stoppard. Considered a great contemporary playwright by most theater writers, Stoppard has been something of a punching bag to Robert Brustein, one of America's most distinguished critics.
By ED SIEGEL | September 20, 2011

Review: The Hotel Nepenthe; Ti-Jean & His Brothers; Pussy on the House

Islands in the storm
"Only connect," advises E.M. Forster, failing to add, "And be weird." John Kuntz, however, hears that double directive, perhaps blowing in the wind, and responds with The Hotel Nepenthe .
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 02, 2011

Play by play: June 4, 2010

Theater listings, week of June 4, 2010
Theater listings, week of June 4, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 03, 2010

Reversal of fortunes

Timon of Athens from Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Prelude to a Kiss from the Huntington
Timon of Athens is Shakespeare’s least characteristic tragedy, and the toughest to pull off.
By STEVE VINEBERG | May 25, 2010

Play by play: May 28, 2010

Theater listings, May 28, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 27, 2010

Play by Play: May 21, 2010

Theater listings, May 21, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 19, 2010

Play by play: May 14, 2010

Theater listings, May 14, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 17, 2010

Play by play: January 22, 2010

Theater listings, January 22, 2010
Boston's weekly theatre schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 20, 2010

Play by play: January 15, 2010

Theater listings, January 15, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 13, 2010

Play by play: January 8, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule: January 8, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 06, 2010

Play by Play: January 1, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings: January 1, 2010
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 30, 2009

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

Dodging death

Reckless, The Salt Girl, and The Overwhelming
Even the sweetest life can shatter in an instant, sending you through the looking glass like Alice. For the euphoric heroine of Craig Lucas's 1988 fable of holiday festivity and arbitrary mayhem, Reckless the moment of reckoning comes when her husband tearfully confesses, on Christmas Eve, that he has taken out a contract on her life.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 18, 2009