American Theater Company’s fresh-faced artistic director credits his gender transition with a creative awakening. Now the 33-year-old looks to turn the venerable North Center playhouse into a place of “wild theatricality.”
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Route 66 Theatre’s No Wake has no heft
This domestic tragedy is like Iphigenia in Aulis updated by Neil Simon.
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The cast of the Goodman’s Disgraced takes a field trip to the Art Institute
An exploration of the influence of Islam on European and American art and the perils of cultural appropriation.
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American Theater Company’s artistic director leaves a worthy legacy
American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli, killed in Scotland last month, leaves a worthy legacy in The Project(s).
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A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other
The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.
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Goodman Theatre’s Buzzer is broken by contrivance
The sympathy ratios are off in Jessica Thebus’s staging of Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer at Goodman.
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