Photo by Andrew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures. Take a deep breath and get ready for the season opener at the New Repertory Theatre: BROKEN GLASS. It's a potent dose of Arthur Miller, 1994, and a play that has never been performed in the Boston area before. It's set in 1938 and in Germany [...]
The first productions of the new year have hit the boards--some harder than others. But the New England premiere of IMAGINING MADOFF at New Rep Theatre in Watertown is right on the money. I've never personally encountered Mr. Madoff, but Jeremiah Kissel gives us a mighty, provocative, visceral, and wholly credible performance. Written by Deborah [...]
THE LAST WILL is a theatrical bauble-- a shimmering amalgam of wishful dreaming, informed speculation, historical fact, literary sleuthing, and some damn fine acting-- conjured by Robert Brustein, and presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Suffolk University where Brustein is Distinguished Scholar in Residence. The play, which is having its world premiere, is the last [...]
