Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. In the RESISTIBLE rise of arturo UI, a Best Ensemble-nominated group of recent theatre school grads came together to bring a piece of their York University education to the Toronto independent theatre scene. Pairing up with director Ted […]
There’ve been a lot of plays about race in Boston over the past couple of years. We had Lydia Diamond’s Stickfly and Kirsten Greenidge’s Luck of the Irish moving to Broadway and off-Broadway, respectively; last spring’s acclaimed production of Clybourne Park and the powerful The Color Purple at Speakeasy; and a host of race-themed plays […]
\Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My Theatre Awards, we’re proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series. In Tarragon’s Hannah Moscovitch double bill last March, Elisa Moolecherry stole our hearts with her complex and quiet turn as Sati, a live-in nanny navigating a new country and the politics of caring for Other People’s Children. […]
Difficult material often makes for the best theatre. With the constant barrage of stories about public shootings throughout the country, you cannot turn on a major news station without confronting the unspeakable terror of hatred and uncertainty. From this despair comes the provocative and timely Bully Dance written by Huntington Playwriting Fellow David Yaldes Greenwood. […]
I’m surprised that American theater companies so rarely perform the plays of Roland Schimmelpfennig. Schimmelpfennig (I believe it’s pronounced “sha-ba-da-va-da”) is one of Germany’s most popular and acclaimed…
Go see this play. Do it. Buy a ticket right now. People throw around the word “must-see” a lot with new and exciting media, but Speakeasy’s production of Samuel D. Hunter’s latest off-Broadway tour de force, The Whale is something every serious Boston theatergoer should try to see before it closes on April 5. It […]
Flat Earth Theatre and director Lindsay Eagle (nominated for a 2013 Boston My Theatre Award for her excellent work directing Rocket Man), should be commended for choosing to put on a show that delves experimentally into a fictional dystopia, a world fraught with troubling issues such as the extinction of the print book, a one-sex […]
If you aren’t closely familiar with the Toronto independent theatrical landscape, you might not know about Colin Munch’s flawless comic timing, or Joshua Browne’s nuanced intensity, or the inevitable special-ness of any production starring Kat Letwin, and you might, therefore, think seriously about skipping Circlesnake Productions’ current production of Dark Matter at the Storefront Theatre. […]