Mark Garvin Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. Thus Shakespeare’s Lady pithily sums up her husband, Macbeth. Maybe things would have worked out better for her if instead of aspiring to…

Chrissy K Photography PLAYING THE FIELD: Rob Tucker and Jennie Eisenhower in 11th House Theatre Company’s ‘Field Hockey Hot.’ They say you should always aim to take the high road.  Well, Monday night I took the low road — and…

Mark Garvin There’s much to be said for People’s Light’s handsome, vibrant production of The Cherry Orchard, which features star glamour (guest artists Mary McDonnell and David Strathairn in the sister/brother leading roles of Lyubov and Leonid), seamlessly integrated alongside the…

Paola Nogueras It hit me the minute the curtain went up on The Whale, Samuel D. Hunter’s marvelous, heartbreaking play: Although television now regularly traffics in exploitative reality shows about the morbidly obese, you almost never see fat people on…

Mark Garvin “Sometimes — there’s God — so quickly!,” Tennessee Williams famously wrote. But sometimes, He doesn’t show up till 9:15. Roughly 70 minutes into Terrence McNally’s 90-minute play, Mothers and Sons, principal character Katharine Gerard (played by Michael Learned)…

Mark Garvin Mary Martello as Sister Aloysius Beauvier and Ben Dibble as Father Brendan Flynn in Lantern Theater Company’s production of Doubt: A Parable. The great thing about Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s slender but effective drama about child abuse in the…

Plate 3 Photography “Doubt” by Lantern Theatre Co. Hot ’N’ Cole Cole Porter’s sophistication is well known, but audiences sometimes miss the slyly provocative sexual subterfuge in his lyrics. Who better to showcase this than Mauckingbird, our resident company that…

And God saw the light, that it was good. So the Bible tells us, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the history of American plays, whose writers seem to dwell in stygian gloom, often cloaking their plays in…

Curio Theatre The cast of “The Matter of Frank Schaefer” The facts are fairly simple — “Frocked, Defrocked, Re-frocked!” might headline an article about Frank Schaefer, a Methodist minister in eastern Pennsylvania. But, as they say, God is in the…