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A young Black woman in a blue dress comforts a Latina woman in a gray dress and yellow cardigan.

He’s just not that into you

by Catey Sullivan May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Its title and structure clearly classify William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well as a comedy. By definition, tragedies end in death, comedies with weddings. Nobody dies during All’s Well, but the climactic wedding in the final act hardly ends with the happy couple basking in the rosy romantic glow of a strongly implied happily […]

A young Chinese woman stands in the foreground. Behind her are four white people around a dining room table--an older man and woman, a middle-aged woman, and another young woman.

Theater Review

The big meal

by Kerry Reid April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

In a recent New Yorker profile of Natasha Lyonne, star and creator of the trippy Netflix series Russian Doll, Lyonne reflects on her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and how that trauma creates ripple effects through the generations. “I joke that there’s a straight line from Hitler to heroin,” she says. The Levi-Katz […]

Woman in red stands left, actor in black clothes and cap is center, man in white T-shirt and brown trousers stands to the rear at the right. They are standing on a floor covered with sand, in front of a wall of dark glass sliding doors.

Arts & Culture

Sea changes

by Kerry Reid March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

In his preshow speech, Court Theatre artistic director Charles Newell asked the audience how many had ever seen Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 play The Lady from the Sea before. “We’re at Court Theatre and we’re doing an Ibsen play only four people have seen,” he responded. That alone helps make the case for this production, which […]