When it comes to bold and audacious stagings of Measure for Measure (for my money, the most unpleasant of Shakespeare’s “problem plays”), it’s hard to top Robert Falls’s dark take-no-prisoners 2013 production at the Goodman, which reimagined Vienna as Times Square, circa the late 1970s. (Think David Simon’s The Deuce on HBO.) But Henry Godinez’s […]
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The gripping Bright Half Life shows small choices with cataclysmic consequences
Tanya Barfield’s clear-eyed play follows two women over the course of their five-decade-long lesbian relationship.
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Northlight’s appealing Charm shows the tyranny of an earlier age
Meet Mama Darleena, a sixtysomething black transsexual who’s all about etiquette.
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Court Theatre’s The Secret Garden suggests you get over yourself
A musical with good advice
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Biologists evolve in Timeline’s The How and the Why
The How and the Why survives on smarts and at least one great performance.
