Reviews

  • When Ambition Becomes the Experiment: Macbeth at Actors’ Shakespeare Project

    In Actors’ Shakespeare Projects’s reimagined Macbeth, director Christopher V. Edwards trades witches and prophecies for experiments and manipulation. Set during the Cold War, this version, nicknamed MK-Beth, turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a chilling psychological study. The Weird Sisters are no longer mystical figures but scientists orchestrating state-sponsored mind control. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth become test

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  • Stirring Up Connection: The Counter at The Umbrella Stage Company

    The Counter, written by Meghan Kennedy and directed by Alex Lonati unfolds over a series of quiet, early mornings in a small-town diner. With only three characters, two regulars and one brief visitor, the play explores what happens when routine meets revelation. Across 75 minutes, daily chats over coffee slowly reveal bigger questions about friendship,

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  • A Voyage Worth Taking: Titanic at Ogunquit Playhouse

    Ogunquit Playhouse’s Titanic, directed by Shaun Kerrison, takes one of the most well-known tragedies in history and turns it into something intimate and emotional. There’s no Jack and Rose here… just the dreamers, workers, and passengers who all stepped aboard the “Ship of Dreams” thinking their lives were about to begin. With Maury Yeston’s sweeping

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