If you're looking for theater to shake you out of your seat and into a new perspective, THE RETURN, the sleek and stirring swan song presented by Guy Ben-Aharon's Israeli Stage, takes you there. On a blank white slice of backdrop, a literal tabula rasa, a man and a woman stand before us as the [...]
There's almost NOTHING to see at the movies these days except techno-driven retreads of assorted superheroes, smurfs, or humans acting like imbeciles. Unless you've put your brain on ice this summer, your resources are BEST spent on live theater. Here's my take on three onstage right now beginning with THE EFFECT a New England Premiere [...]
OH GOD--A man walks into a psychologist's office. He needs to talk and she's the one. Oh...and he's God. As in the deity. As in The Word--first, last, and always. Presented by Israeli Stage and written by the late Anat Gov in a season of all female playwrights, "Oh God" cracks open this borderline blasphemous exclamation and releases [...]
