Michael Frayn

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Taking aim

A play within a play in Stoppard’s Hound
Sometimes even playwrights just wanna have fun.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 31, 2010

CTC'S Noises Off is a laff riot
Farces have been keeping audiences slapping their knees ever since cavemen learned to trip into the fire on purpose. A case can be made that the most exquisitely funny farce ever devised is Michael Frayn's Noises Off .
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 11, 2009

Play by play: July 31, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 29, 2009

Play by play: July 24, 2009

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

Play by play: July 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 15, 2009

Play by play: July 10, 2009

Plays from A to Z
This week in Boston theater
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 08, 2009

Play by Play: July 3, 2009

Plays from A to Z
This week in Boston theater
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 06, 2009

Play by Play: June 26, 2009

Plays for A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 23, 2009

Play by Play, May 8, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 07, 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

Letter from London

The foggy joys of Europe’s most international city
How could you not fall in love with this city?
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | September 05, 2008

War games

The Huntington’s Third ; the ART’s Copenhagen ; ASP’s Henry V
Wendy Wasserstein might have chosen a lesser light in whose shadow to cast a play than King Lear .
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 16, 2008

Primary colors

It’s the political season on area stages
Now that the holiday hubbub is behind us, we have no dreams of white Christmases or visions of Sugar Plum Fairies to warm a theatergoer’s heart.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 26, 2007

Role playing

PC acts up in Noises Off
For a couple of hours, this talented troupe has us believing that it’s just that simple — and that funny.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 30, 2007

Serious business

Oscar Wilde, Richard Nixon, and Real-Life In Baghdad
Playwright and director Moisés Kaufman likes to say that Oscar Wilde was the first performance artist.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 19, 2007

Stage worthies

Fall on the Boston boards
The roar of the greasepaint precedes that of the autumn wind this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 12, 2007

Dark laughs

Tom Stoppard ponders this mortal coil
When Tom Stoppard unleashed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on the London stage in 1966, he put the play back into plays.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 07, 2007

Off-stage

Portland Stage looks behind the curtain
“All the world’s a stage,” waxes Shakespeare’s Jaques, but nowhere is that more true than backstage.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 31, 2007

Let’s get physical

The Taming of the Shrew on Boston Common; Copenhagen at the Publick
Shakespeare’s super-dainty Kates become cannoli in The Taming of the Shrew on Boston Common.
By CAROLYN CLAY | August 01, 2006

Bard or beard?

Shakespeare steps on the Publick stage
This season the Publick Theatre will be doing Shakespeare in the park with a twist.
By SALLY CRAGIN | June 20, 2006