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Mean Girls
A stage-filling cast of twenty-one who knock it out-of-the-park in every respect is a sure-fire reason to grab a ticket to Ray of Light Theatre’s “Mean Girls.”
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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov, Translation by Tom Stoppard Los Alto Stage Company While Anton Chekhov categorized his 1904 premiere, The Cherry Orchard, as a comedy with some elements of farce, the great work now seen as a literary classic is often produced more as a tragicomedy as it dramatizes the fall of the Russian aristocracy at the turn of…
Clouds from an Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days Shinichi Iova-Koga inkBoat “There is being. There is nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Suddenly there is nonbeing.” ~Chuang Tzu Has there ever been a time when humans during their short stay…
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Anon(ymous)
In its intimate setting with an audience surrounding on four sides, The Pear Theatre presents Naomi Iizuka’s lyrical, poetic, magical yet harshly realistic re-telling of Homer’s Odyssey, her 2008-premiering play, “Anon(ymous).”
Come from Away
With a rousing, contagious score that continually emphasizes a steady beat much like that of a heart, “Come from Away” is an emotional testament and tribute to the citizens of a tiny, remote town who welcomed strangers to their midst at a time the entire world was at a standstill in shock and sorrow.
Hamnet
With words that flow poetic and scenes that are magical, mystical, and at time mysterious, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet” — now at American Conservatory Theatre — is mesmerizing and hypnotic in its power of audience attention.
