Mechanical Reproduction: J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” directed by Stephen Daldry at ArtsEmerson
In the theatre, it is rare to see a dramatist get second billing to a director. Usually,...
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“An Octoroon” At Kinetic Theatre Company In Pittsburgh, PA
The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story...
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Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
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“The Slaves Of Solitude” at The Hampstead Theatre
The Second World War is central to our national imagination, yet it has been oddly absent from our...
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Cocteau’s “La Voix Humaine” Telephone Melodrama
An unnamed woman alone in an apartment conducts an increasingly panicked conversation on the...
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