How do you write the perfect constitution for a new government? That’s merely one of the questions Mickaël de Oliveira’s play The Constitution asks. Perhaps even more central than the question of the constitution is the idea of love: what it means to …Read more

At the top of Act II of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, when the audience first glimpses the Forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior (who is hiding out there) pronounces life in the wood to be “exempt from public haunt.” That’s certainly not …Read more

The first thing I can say about the ingeniously funny Small Town Confessions is summed up in three words: Phil Geoffrey Bond. Both the playwright and one of the actors in the production I saw at at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Bond creates a …Read more

Inanimate is a somewhat misleading title for such a buoyant, funny, and heartwarming journey of self-acceptance and love. Nick Robideau’s play directed by Courtney Ulrich makes its world premiere at The Flea’s new, beautiful performing arts complex i …Read more

Knaves and novices, scholars and superfans… if you have any hint of an infatuation with the globally-revered William Shakespeare… please, skip the SparkNotes, and book yourself a ticket to see Liv and Mags! They’re the stars and creators of 15 Villai …Read more

Lone Star, the James McLure play presented by Nine Theatricals and directed by Pete McElligott, is All-American beer and cigarettes and backyards. A damn funny and effective ode to dirty boys of early 1970s Texas, some just home from Vietnam, others …Read more

Thomas Klingenstein’s play If Only…, directed by Christopher McElroen at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is a moving depiction of the relationship between a white woman and a black man whose matchmaker was Abraham Lincoln. Set in New York in 1901, If Only …Read more

For true Broadway aficionados, there perhaps couldn’t be a more ideal night at the theater than Prince of Broadway at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The show features the culmination of six decades worth of Broadway director/producer Harold Prince …Read more

Five stars for False Stars! Fast-paced, heartfelt and precise, the writing, acting and direction of this piece by Nora Sørena Casey, presented at the inaugural Corkscrew Theater Festival, come together to form a riveting production. Set in a universi …Read more

If you run quickly through a list of Shakespeare’s tragedies you may notice something: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear – the title characters are all men. Of course, there’s also Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra – but no woman stands alone …Read more