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Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 08, 2009

My two Dads

Chazz Palminteri recycles A Bronx Tale
For those still jonesing for The Sopranos , Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale (at the Colonial Theatre through April 5) may provide a somewhat sanitized fix.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 07, 2009

The Wrestling Patient at the BCA; the Lyric's Speech & Debate
There was room for more than one young Jewish diarist in the occupied Amsterdam of World War II. Anne Frank, who died as a teen, is a 20th-century icon. But until recently, her feisty innocence hid Etty Hillesum's fire.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 31, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town

By: CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2009

Rash relations

The Pain and the Itch from Company One at the BCA, Fool for Love at New Rep, Bad Dates at MRT
The Pain and the Itch will make you wince if not scratch — your head, that is.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Review: Theater of War

Worth watching for Meryl Streep
John Walter had been immersed in Brecht for two decades, and he wanted to make a film about the great German poet/playwright.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Play by Play: March 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 24, 2009

Fighting Rome

Two Men of Florence at the Huntington; Coriolanus at the Armory
It takes chutzpah for a first-time playwright to get into the ring with Bertolt Brecht.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 17, 2009

Play by Play: March 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 18, 2009

Material girls

Trinity uncovers Hare's Secret Rapture
The usually evenhanded if impassioned David Hare in The Secret Rapture , a 20-year-old play being urgently, elegiacally revived by Trinity Repertory Company.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 10, 2009

Play by Play: March 13, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 10, 2009

Play by play: March 6, 2009

Plays from A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | March 03, 2009

Endgame at the ART

Death duties
"They give mirth astride of a grave," Beckett might just as well have written of Mankind. He did opine, in Endgame , that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 27, 2009

Play by Play: February 27, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 24, 2009

Daddys and lovers

The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage
The Lyric gives Williams's Cat new life; Dirty Dancing on stage

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 19, 2009

Play by play: February 20, 2009

Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 17, 2009

Black power

Trinity Rep's powerful Raisin In the Sun
The centerpiece of George C. Wolfe's 1986 satire The Colored Museum is a scathing sketch called The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play . A Raisin in the Sun is the über-mama-on-the-couch play

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2009

A Raisin in the Sun at Trinity, Bad Jazz at Zeitgeist

Reviews of two plays
The centerpiece of George C. Wolfe's 1986 satire The Colored Museum is a scathing sketch called The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play . A Raisin in the Sun is the über-mama-on-the-couch play.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2009