Reviews

  • Almost Revolutionary: Little Women at Actors’ Shakespeare Project

    Kate Hamill’s Little Women, now onstage at Actors’ Shakespeare Project under the direction of Shana Gozansky, keeps the bones of Alcott’s story: four sisters growing up during the Civil War while their father is away, figuring out love, ambition, illness, money, and what kind of women they want to be. This version places Jo at…

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  • The Waiting is the Hardest Part: Penelope at Lyric Stage

    Penelope at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston directed by Courtney O’Connor with music direction by Dan Rodriguez, turns its gaze away from the hero’s journey and toward the woman who stays behind. With music, lyrics, and arrangements by Alex Bechtel and a book by Bechtel, Grace McLean, and Eva Steinmetz, this one-person musical drops…

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  • Logging In to the Human Condition: JOB at SpeakEasy Stage

    JOB, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Marianna Bassham, is a razor sharp psychological thriller that unfolds inside a therapist’s office but quickly spirals far beyond it. An intake session between Jane, a young woman in crisis after a viral workplace incident, and Loyd, the therapist assigned to evaluate her, becomes a tense,…

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