Dramas
Sara Farb’s bracing world premiere of ‘Love Us Most’ is directed with clear-eyed force by Sabryn Rock.
Set in the early autumn of 2016, Love Us Most opens on the sort of backstage space rarely granted centre...
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A bold, intellectually charged piece of theatre. ‘The Caged Bird Sings’ arrives raw in feeling, rigorous in thought, and unafraid to leave its audience wrestling with difficult ideas.
The Caged Bird Sings reimagines Rumi’s ‘Masavani’ in a prison cell in which confinement is both literal and spiritual. Rumi...
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‘American Devotion’ offers a periodically compelling fictional exploration of celebrity, media scrutiny, and private power dynamics. A tighter script would sharpen its dramatic momentum.
In this world premiere, playwright Franca Miraglia draws on an enduring fascination with Hollywood’s Golden Age, using it as a...
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VOICE CHOICE: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’, at the Stratford Festival, receives a deeply felt and finely tuned production.
Still a fixture in many high school English classrooms, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman remains a searing examination of...
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The Happiness Mandate in Bowtie Productions’ “Next to Normal”
Why shouldn’t we want to be happy? Why shouldn’t we do everything possible to feel that way? There go hundreds...
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VOICE CHOICE: Six characters in search of answers. A powerful and expertly crafted production lays bare in one hour the life-altering effects of mental health challenges on working-class and marginalized people, and the difficult realities faced by those who try to help them.
Mental health is everywhere these days, and we need to talk more about it. Maybe you know someone who suffers...
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Here for Now World Premiere is haunting, yet elusive.
If the end of the world is coming, Julia Lederer’s I Am An Island imagines it arriving not with panic,...
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Crow’s and The Grand’s ‘Primary Trust’ gives a nimble production to a script that never tightens the screws
Mouldy walls, graffiti tags, and electrical wiring. Tufts of grass sprouting through cracks in the concrete. There is even a...
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I really wanted to care about the story and the characters in Pleiades’ ‘Karma’. At the performance I attended, I couldn’t.
An extremely important twenty-first-century play about the importance of the family unit and forgiveness, Aksam Alyousef’s Karma has moments when...
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Susanna Fournier’s massive and intelligent ‘take rimbaud’ becomes stunning and intense in the messiness of troubled lives.
Described on the Howland Company Theatre website as a love letter performance poem, Susanna Fournier’s take rimbaud is set in...
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