Boston Theater Company

Mar 17 2017

THEATER: FINISH LINE: A DOCUMENTARY PLAY ABOUT THE 2013 MARATHON

By |2017-03-17T13:15:36-04:00March 17th, 2017|Theater|0 Comments

I just saw the world premiere of FINISH LINE: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon.  It runs circles around the movie "Patriot's Day" which managed to somehow reduce this global tragedy even as it ramped up the explosions and Mark Wahlberg's ubiquitous heroics. FINISH LINE has no literal explosions and makes a better point: there were no heroes, that is, no [...]

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Oct 27 2014

THEATER ROUNDUP: ETHER DOME/MUCH ADO/IT FELT EMPTY/LANGUAGE OF ANGELS

By |2014-10-28T11:23:24-04:00October 27th, 2014|Theater|0 Comments

There's a whole lotta theater goin' on-- here's my take in short: ETHER DOME presented by The Huntington Theatre Company at BU is neither a gas, nor did it put me to sleep. Billed as a medical thriller about the very first surgery performed under anesthesia in 1846 under the "dome" at MGH, the real story is fascinating, but the [...]

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