Arts
At STC, Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ Checks off All the Right Boxes
Today’s Royals, Shakespeare Style, in ‘King Charles III’
• February 21, 2017
The Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Mike Bartlett’s play runs through March 12.
Lillian Hellman: Speaking to Perilous Times
• February 16, 2017
Hellman’s “Watch on the Rhine,” which opened on Broadway in 1941, is at Arena Stage through March 5.
At Ford’s, George and Martha Can Still Shock
• February 2, 2017
Directed by Aaron Posner, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” leaps out of its bounds of time snarling and swinging.
Yasiin Bey’s Light Will Not Dim
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The hip-hop artist formerly known as Mos Def bid farewell to music and film with three shows at the Kennedy Center.
Albee’s ‘Woolf’ Comes to Ford’s at Last
• January 30, 2017
The production, directed by Aaron Posner, will run through Feb. 19.
The Oscars, Not Quite So White
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This year, there was actually something newsworthy about the Academy Award nominations.
‘The Gabriels’ — A Fictional Family We Come to Care About
• January 19, 2017
The election-year trilogy runs through Jan. 22 in the Kennedy Center Theater Lab.
‘The Dictator’s Wife’ Shows Lots of Initiative at WNO
• January 16, 2017
It’s a common complaint that you hear about opera, especially from some younger people when they look up from their phones. What’s it to us? It’s old. What does it have to do […]
Spending Election Year With ‘The Gabriels’
• January 13, 2017
Director and playwright Richard Nelson came to town recently for the Kennedy Center’s presentation of his ambitious, intimately epic “The Gabriels Trilogy: Election Year in the Life of One Family.” […]
Kirsten Greenidge on ‘Bud, Not Buddy’: A Boy’s Search for His Father
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Boston playwright and writer Kirsten Greenidge has already compiled a prolific, diverse and often issues-oriented body of work about the way Americans live today, and, according to New Dramatists, “shines […]
