Playhouse, August 30 If you’re desperate to hold any Shakespeare up to a dreamlike distorting mirror, Titus Andronicus is the one. It’s already a carnival of grotesques; of blood, murder and mutilation on a heroic scale. Thirteen die during the show and another is condemned, and director Adena Jacobs (for…
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Hayes Theatre, August 28 8.5/10 Remember your first time at the theatre? How miraculous it was to find another world within the one you knew? Caroline, or Change is as different from any musical you’ve ever seen on that scale of wonderment. Just for starters, what other musical has Washing…
Capitol Theatre, August 27 8.5/10 The best writers are clairvoyants. They pen a play, novel or even a musical that might have a contemporaneous or historical setting, yet it predicts the future by speaking to subsequent generations so precisely of their own time. Fred Ebb’s brilliant book and lyrics to…