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Bipolar Hypersexuality: The Psych Drama Company’s “Hamlet”

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A new fringe company takes on Hamlet with sex and psychology.

Theater

Shakespeare Interrupted: Whistler in the Dark’s Stoppard Double Feature

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Whistler gives us accessible and intellectual theater with a hilarious “Dogg’s Hamlet” and a spooky and riveting “Cahoot’s Macbeth.”

Theater

Sadie Hawkins on the Common: Commonwealth Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well”

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Girl chases boy in Commonwealth Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well.”

Theater

“My girlfriend left me and she took her navy with her:” ASP’s “Antony and Cleopatra”

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Paula Plum and James Andreassi break in the Modern Theatre with Antony and Cleopatra.

Music

Midsummer Dreamscapes: Boston Lyric Opera’s “Dream”

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BLO closes out its season with a lucid production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Theater

The Merchant of Wall Street: Theatre for a New Audience’s “Merchant of Venice”

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I assume Arts Emerson’s program for The Merchant of Venice quotes TMZ.com‘s reporting on Mel Gibson’s notorious antisemitic remarks next to passages by Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt to demonstrate that the antisemitism of Shakespeare’s Venice is still present today and in the “in-the-near-future” setting of this Theatre for a New Audience production at the Cutler [...]

Theater

The Actors’ Shakespeare Project opens its new retail location in the heart of Davis Square with “Cymbeline”

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The vacant Davis Square retail space housing the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s winter festival doesn’t match up to their usual lush digs in Fort Point, which is probably my favorite theater in Boston. Instead of a trendy brick and beam loft space, we get drop ceilings, harsh fluorescent lighting, and the bass line of whatever the [...]

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