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Monday, February 10, 2014

Theater Review: 'Actress Fury,' a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Actress Fury," a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.    

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Theater Review: In 'The Wong Kids,' a Sister and a Brother Turn Superheroes by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "The Wong Kids" at LaMama's Ellen Stewart Theater, siblings find super powers to fight off the bullies.    

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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Theater Review: 'Have I No Mouth' Plumbs the Depths of an Irish Family by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Have I No Mouth," part of P.S. 122's Coil Festival, puts a mother, a son and their psychotherapist on stage in an exploration of loss.    

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Theater Review: A Fractious House Party Unfolds in 'I Could Say More' by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "I Could Say More," a play written by and starring Chuck Blasius at the Hudson Guild Theater, a writer's beach house party devolves into tumult.    

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Theater Review: 'Muazzez,' a Monologue Based on a Mac Wellman Story by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Muazzez" takes a Mac Wellman short story and turns it into a monologue.    

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Theater Review: 'Mayhem and Majesty,' at 59E59 Theaters by Laura Collins-Hughes

Squonk Opera's "Mayhem and Majesty" tries to answer a question: "What does music look like?"    

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Theater Review: 'La Divina Caricatura' at La MaMa by Laura Collins-Hughes

"La Divina Caricatura" at La MaMa finds Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines exploring an interspecies love story.    

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Theater Review: In 'Love, Linda,' Stevie Holland Imagines Mrs. Cole Porter by Laura Collins-Hughes

The wife of Cole Porter has her say in "Love, Linda," at the York Theater Company.    

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Theater Review: 'Black Wizard/Blue Wizard' at St. Mark's Church by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Black Wizard/Blue Wizard," a musical and a battle, two forces vie for the chance to defeat the Great Mediocrity.    

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Theater Review: 'Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love' Is a New Comedy at Flea Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love," Grace is a 27-year-old who craves distraction from her disillusionment, and that's when the Olsen twins arrive.    

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Love Machines by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence," now at Playwrights Horizon, Madeleine George explores how people have tried to circumvent the uncertainty of relationships with technology…

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Theater Review | 'This Is My Office': In 'This Is My Office,' Andy Bragen Looks Within by Laura Collins-Hughes

"This Is My Office" is a semiautobiographical solo play in which a man contemplates the complicated relationship he had with his father.    

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Theater Review: 'Water,' at Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Water," from the British companies Filter Theater and Lyric Hammersmith, pours creative light and sound into a multicharacter tale about the environment.    

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David Harewood and Orlando Bloom on Shakespearean Warm-Ups by Laura Collins-Hughes

David Harewood, Orlando Bloom and other actors tell how they meet the technical demands of performing Shakespeare.    

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Friday, August 9, 2013

In a Theater Mecca, 'Fringe' Tends to Mean Choosy by Laura Collins-Hughes

The New York International Fringe Festival, which opened on Friday, relies on a jury of curators to assemble its lineup, which leads some critics to argue that it's not exactly a "fringe" ev…

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Harbor Lights Takes Root on Staten Island by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Harbor Lights Theater Company is trying to make theater on Staten Island more than an afterthought.    

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Are nonprofit theaters too closely tied to commercial producers? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Decades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein's…

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Kirsten Greenidge, a local playwright, turns to her family’s past for a world premiere at the Huntington Theatre by Laura Collins-Hughes

The details of Medford playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “The Luck of the Irish’’ are artistic inventions, but Greenidge’s inspiration was her own family history: …

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Monday, October 3, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011

Sharing their value of interactive theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kirk Lynn wondered if it would be possible to make a play composed largely of questions asked of the audience, infusing genuine, unscripted responses into a theatrical experience. Melanie Jo…

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

A ‘Candide’ that has a lot to say by Laura Collins-Hughes

Leonard Bernstein kept coming back to his musical “Candide’’ over the decades, reworking and adding to his original 1956 score. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation premiered …

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Civility, self-assertion, and family connections by Laura Collins-Hughes

WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Playwright gets political by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Guare talks about “His Girl Friday,’’ his new comedy adapted from both the 1940 Howard Hawks film of the same name and the 1928 Broadway play on which that was based: …

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Arciniegas steps down; Publick goes on hiatus by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the resignation of artistic director Diego Arciniegas, the 40-year-old Publick Theatre Boston is going on hiatus, its future uncertain.

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Saturday, August 6, 2011

ART musical is Broadway-bound by Laura Collins-Hughes

NEW YORK - Three stories up, inside a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows gaze across 42nd Street at Madame Tussauds’s Manhattan outpost, Diane Paulus was four days into rehearsing t…

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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Cultural diplomacy on Main St. in America by Laura Collins-Hughes

The US State Department, which has long sent American artists abroad as part of its cultural diplomacy efforts, is for the first time launching a sizable program to bring foreign performers …

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With acting trio, 'All's Well' by Laura Collins-Hughes

This week on Boston Common, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “All’s Well That Ends Well’’ reunites three former members of the American Repertory Theater&…

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Post-Broadway 'Tarzan' swings into North Shore by Laura Collins-Hughes

BEVERLY - Johnny Weissmuller did not swing across the screens of David Henry Hwang’s childhood, yelling his Tarzan yell.

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

A first season as staging ground by Laura Collins-Hughes

As ArtsEmerson’s first season was drawing to a close, executive director Robert Orchard seemed to be of two minds about how far the initiative had come. It was only last September when…

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Shedding the feathers, rhinestones by Laura Collins-Hughes

NEW YORK - Ask actor and playwright Charles Busch what he usually does for Fourth of July weekend, and his first response is a coy demurral.

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