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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

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

Play by play: November 20, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 18, 2009

Play by Play: November 13, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 11, 2009

Play by play: November 6, 2009

Boston theater listings, November 6, 2009
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 04, 2009

Play by play: October 30, 2009

Plays around town
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 28, 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: August 14, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 11, 2009

Play by Play: August 7, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 05, 2009

Play by play: July 31, 2009

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

Quake and Shake

Company One meshes Murakami; Orfeo compacts the Bard
A tenderhearted yarn spinner tells an anxious little girl a story about a talking bear hawking honey. A nerdy young debt collector comes home to find a six-foot amphibian bent on recruiting him to save Tokyo from a natural disaster. Both scenarios emanate from the brain of award-winning Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 22, 2009

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

Love bites

A Marvelous Party; Mr. Marmalade; Misalliance
Noël Coward may not have been born in a trunk, but he moved into one early.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 18, 2007

Satire versus spoof

Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley ; A.R. Gurney’s Screen Play
The American media have long pigged out on titillation and tragedy. And in After Ashley , Gina Gionfriddo has written a frighteningly funny work about that particular eating disorder.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 08, 2006