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The Huntington’s “Becky Shaw”

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Deborah Finkelstein reviews the Huntington’s production of “Becky Shaw.”

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All My Sons at the Huntington

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We’re seeing a lot of plays this year that echo our current economic turmoil or our interminable ventures in the Middle East. Gatz and the upcoming production Paradise Lost at the A.R.T and now, at the Huntington through Feb. 7, Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons. All My Sons might be set around a war [...]

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The Holidays at the Huntington: “A Civil War Christmas”

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Like the Christmas movie, the holiday show exists within its own genre. A Christmas play seeks to satisfy the criteria set by its genre even before it even tries to be a good play, because what’s a Christmas play if it’s not sentimental, accessible, family-oriented, overtly American, and evocative of the values we all tend [...]

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