Three streaming productions give us plenty to ponder in the pandemic.
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Kill Move Paradise imagines an afterlife for victims of police killings
James Ijames puts the audience on trial in this TimeLine production.
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Rutherford and Son is Succession without the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll
Githa Sowerby’s long-neglected drama has a strong cast at TimeLine, but drags at times.
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Give thanks for some promising November live performances
The table is set this month with theater world premieres, dance works in progress, and comedy with cured meat.
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Oslo paints a picture of the personal touch in international relations
The Tony-winning play gets a smart and timely local premiere from TimeLine.
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Too Heavy for Your Pocket weighs the cost of making a difference
A Black college student’s decision to join the Freedom Riders has unexpected consequences for his wife and friends.
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Cardboard Piano looks for hope and healing in Uganda
Hansol Jung’s drama takes on religious hypocrisy, the lives of child soldiers, and the connections between the personal and political.
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Janet Ulrich Brooks leads a superb Master Class
Her magnetic, mercurial performance anchors TimeLine’s portrait of Maria Callas.
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The Holocaust drama A Shayna Maidel takes the redemptive route
But the production’s happy ending feels unearned.
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To Catch a Fish re-creates a government operation gone terribly wrong
Brett Neveu’s play is not so much about the con, but the effect of the con.
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The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see
A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week’s best bets.
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TimeLine Theatre’s The Audience is too admiring for the audience’s good
Peter Morgan’s drama gives us a Queen Elizabeth II dull in her dutifulness.
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Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows
A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week’s best bets.
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The Bardy Bunch, The Last Wife, A Walk in the Woods, and ten more new stage shows
A mashup of Shakespeare with The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch is one of this week’s high- (or maybe lowlights).
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TimeLine’s Bakersfield Mist is a true tale gone bad
Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow, schematic picture of an art-world saga.