Controversy swirled around "Jesus Christ Superstar" when it premiered on Broadway in 1971. Many Christians decried the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim...

Live theater in Greater Boston staged a welcome comeback in 2021. The pandemic-challenged year began with Zoom and live-streamed productions....

BOSTON – For Noa Luz Barenblat, Anatevka is much more than the setting of “Fiddler on the Roof.” As the...

CAMBRIDGE – “Behind every great man there’s a great woman,” the saying goes. In the #MeToo era, amend the saying...

BOSTON – Is "The Merchant of Venice" a ‘problem play?’ Igor Golyak believes it is—but not in the way that...

Call Studs Terkel a kind of documentarian Dickens. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants (1912-2008) interviewed hundreds of Americans from...

Are stage characters locked in a kind of Sartre’s Hell as in “No Exit?” Could they be Pirandello’s wanderers searching...

Is socially distanced performance real theater? This question has been asked of virtually all stage efforts since the outbreak of...

In the age of COVID-19, Hub Theatre Company of Boston has a timely option. As producer-actress Lauren Elias revealed in...

BOSTON – Is “The Merchant of Venice” anti-Semitic? Scholars, directors, actors, and theatergoers continue to debate that question and diverge...