In the wake of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Shakespeare is summoned to take on a play commission for the Crown.
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MACBETH (Arden): Rare emotion and rarer straightforwardness [critical mass review #5]
The elements which displease other writers are what makes this production a success, according to Michael Fisher in review five of the ongoing Critical Mass series.
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MACBETH (Arden): Shakepeare as spectacle [critical mass review #4]
It’s the fourth installment of the Critical Mass review of MACBETH at the Arden, but Julius Ferraro thinks too many works have already been written about an unremarkable piece of theater.
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MACBETH (Arden): Numb from the neck down, well almost [critical mass review #3]
Jessica Foley gives this week’s critical mass take on MACBETH at the Arden, part of a new review series on Phindie.
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MACBETH (Arden): Fast but not furious [critical mass review #2]
Alexander Burns’ production of MACBETH at Arden Theatre Company is energetic and visually engaging, but it lacks ferocity and substance.
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MACBETH (Arden): Bloody bold and resolute [critical mass review #1]
Burns maintains the energy and pacing of his best work for Quintessence and takes full advantage of the Arden’s high production values to create an exuberant and understandable version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
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THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (Wilma): War lives in all of us
Did anyone anywhere actually believe that being photographed would take away the soul, or is that the kind of ethnocentric nonsense we need good foreign journalism to counter?
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LA BÊTE (Arden Theatre Company): “Excellence Must Struggle to Survive!”
David Hirson’s riotous comedy in rhyming couplets evokes the farcical Baroque style of Molière while conveying a timeless message about high art versus low art.
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INCORRUPTIBLE (Arden): Laughter in the monastery
The set of Michael Hollinger’s witty INCORRUPTIBLE looks like it has been there for hundreds of years, transporting one back to the days of monks…
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Conversations on Chekhov: What gimmicks? The Arden’s THREE SISTERS has a lasting effect
In September of 1900 Anton Chekhov confessed in a letter to his actress-wife Olga Knipper: “I find it very difficult to write THREE SISTERS, much more…
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GHOSTS (People’s Light): Just give in to the melodrama
At People’s Light and Theatre’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS, the program note written by dramaturg Gina Pisasale discusses Ibsen’s life and work. In his theater,…
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