Don Aucoin
Theater Critic and Arts Critic-at-Large at The Boston Globe
Chief theater critic and Arts critic-at-large for The Boston Globe and https://t.co/tP3Of3ZrqS
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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin
GLOUCESTER -- In Doug Lockwood’s rigorously thought-through, beautifully executed staging of “The Glass Menagerie,” the autobiographical work that Tennessee Williams called a memory play is also a ghost story, populated with phantoms Williams would never quite outrun. It’s not often that the elements of direction, design, and performance merge as powerfully as they do in this Gloucester Stage Company production.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin
What’s telling, though, is that the “Make Up Your Mind” debacle lingers in the memory because it was such a rare belly flop for SpeakEasy, a midsize theater company that has had the best overall batting average in town, season after season. For 33 years, the creative force behind that track record has been Paul Daigneault, who cofounded SpeakEasy in 1992 and has led it since then as artistic director. Last year, Daigneault, now 60, announced he would be retiring at the end of the 2024-25 season.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin
History abounds in monsters, and also — just as chilling, if not more — “ordinary people” who have committed monstrous deeds. To a haunting degree, the Arlekin Players Theatre production of “Our Class” is an illustration of what Hannah Arendt famously called “the banality of evil.” The word “Our” in the title is suggestive of solidarity, but what unfolds in this drama by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek gives that word the flavor of bitter mockery.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin
When it comes to Broadway, everything is coming up roses, to borrow a phrase that’s been heard a time or two on the Main Stem. After years of anemic TV audiences, Sunday night’s Tony Awards delivered a significant ratings success for CBS, which televised the ceremony live from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin
Only Broadway productions are eligible for Tonys. (The excellence of Off-Broadway shows is recognized by the Obies.) This year’s ceremony is taking place at Radio City Music Hall in New York, broadcast live on CBS and hosted by Cynthia Erivo.
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