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REVIEW: In Copenhagen, Playwright Michael Frayn on a Fission Expeditionary

Sometimes the play at Lantern Theater seems like a great and important work; at other times, not so much.

Lolita Chakrabarti’s mixed bag of a play finds greatness when Forrest McClendon takes the stage.

The best of this viscerally thrilling but interpretively odd take on Shakespeare’s play is very fine indeed.

Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play begins and ends well, but groans under a surfeit of issues.

At Lantern Theater, a great actress shines as Shaw’s bewitching anti-heroine.

Naomi Iizuka’s complex play, in a visually beautiful production, is a mixed bag.

In my crankier moods, I think “one-person play” is an oxymoron. I’ve seen plenty, and some have been delightful – The Belle […]

In science and theater, timing matters. British DNA researcher Dr. Rosalind Franklin’s early death – at 37, from ovarian cancer – is […]

The great thing about Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s slender but effective drama about child abuse in the church, is that our sympathies […]