Ensemble Theatre, August 25 The central figure in Terence McNally’s 2014 play is dead. He, Andre, died of AIDS 19 years before Mothers and Sons begins, yet his death continues to haunt the other characters in different ways. Cal (Jason Langley), who was Andre’s partner, cared for and lost the…
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Playhouse, August 21 John Bell leaves the company he founded on a high. Here was a Tempest in which he restored the play’s often-lost lightness, and rediscovered the comedy that exists outside of the marauding drunkenness of Stephano and Trinculo. Refreshingly for one of Shakespeare’s most imposed-upon works Bell has…