‘The Rosenbergs’ is a grand story on the small stage
Review from The Patriot Ledger BOSTON – Opera comes in many sizes. On one end, there are the grand-stage, orchestra-in-the-pit, audience-in-Sunday-best operas. On the other, a few singers in a room, with a piano. In between there’s chamber opera – a modest amount of instruments, a small cast of singers, simple sets. This version can […]
Director Dmitry Troyanovsky on ‘The Rosenbergs’
Russian conspiracies, once again, keep us awake at night as they did during the Cold War era. Sharp political divisions, media hysteria, fears about national security, paranoid theories, and a climate of free-floating anxiety all make for a perfect moment to revisit the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. How does the story of the […]
Poster for ‘The Rosenbergs’
‘Brawler’ bows in Ithaca
Happy (second) opening to Walt, Bevin, Greg, Anthony, Gigi, Marc, and the rest of the Brawler team at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca!
Playwright Walt McGough on ‘Brawler’
Ancient Greece is not the obvious starting point for a play about ice hockey, but that’s where Brawler began, because sometimes playwriting is weird. I read Sophocles’ Ajax in graduate school at BU, in a translation by Bryan Dorries which was specifically geared towards soldiers returning from the Middle East. Dorries’ reasons for such a […]
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Scores With ‘Brawler,’ A Tale Of Havoc And Hockey
Review from WBUR’s The ARTery Walt McGough’s new play “Brawler” — playing through March 18 at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre — works too hard at first to keep its story moving, but scores in the end. Pro hockey player Adam (Greg Maraio) — known affectionately to his teammates as Moose — goes berserk in a hockey […]
Poster for ‘Brawler’
Students experience BPT “from page to stage”
Richard Chambers’s freshman seminar at Suffolk University offers students the opportunity to read, analyze, and experience local live theatrical performances, including two at BPT last fall—Lost Tempo and Elemeno Pea. Read the full story “It’s so cool picking apart a play and trying to understand it. And then you go and see you’re all wrong, […]
‘Elemeno Pea’: Life’s a Beach
Review from BroadwayWorld.com Sing along: a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-elemenopea. Takes you back, doesn’t it? How many of us thought that was one long name for a letter in the middle of the alphabet? Well, one of the two sisters in Molly Smith Metzler’s charming, funny play Elemeno Pea was convinced of it, and it became a lifelong source […]