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The Out of Town Moms: Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s “Two Wives in India”

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Two American mothers go to India for their daughter’s wedding and get more than a son-in-law.

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Cherry, Oh Baby

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The Gurnet Theatre Project puts up a good fight with James McManus’ “Cherry Smoke.”

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Dylan Thomas Adapted: A Child’s Christmas in Wales

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Dylan Thomas’ Christmas classic, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, deals with so much of what we like to hear about during the holidays–childhood, family, gifts, carols, food, sweets, and snow–told in the manner in which we like to hear it; with nostalgia, innocence, and a sense of humor and poetics. It’s no surprise that it [...]

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Pass the Salt Please: John Kuntz’s “The Salt Girl”

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It was John Kuntz’s performance that kept me from leaving the Central Square Theater’s recent production of Pinter’s The Caretaker during the second intermission. He’s a great actor with a natural grasp of the rhythms of language and capable of deep, deep characterization that can entrance our emotions equally as well as it can push [...]