KXT on Broadway, December 13 7/10 Alan Bennett had not encountered Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows as a child, and was deeply suspicious of dramatizing it. Toad apart, he thought the characters muted, and besides, it incorporated horses, cars, trains and barges. He set about it, nonetheless, and…
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Old Fitz Theatre, November 1 8/10 The play transforms itself in a moment, just as the lives of everyone in Hiroshima were either ended on transformed at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945. Until this moment, Hisashi Inoue’s gentle drama has a father and daughter discussing all that’s little or…
Ensemble Theatre, December 7 7.5/10 Even the shriek of nails on a blackboard is preferable to the mannered flourishes and dry-mouthed woodenness that passes for acting in the worst amateur theatricals. By contrast, we not only forgive bad drawing and painting, we stick the stuff to our fridges when our…