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ORFEO GROUP @ NICK’S COMEDY STOP
Kicking off the Magner’s Comedy Festival is Orfeo Group’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a twisted and hilarious re-imagining of the Bard’s entire canon. Which is a pretty tall...
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CORIOLANUS @ BOSTON COMMON PARKMAN BANDSTAND
Shakespeare on the Common (otherwise known as “commshakes,” otherwise known as “kinda disappointing if you were jonesin’ for a nice chocolate malt”) returns for another summer run at the Boston Common...
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ARTS PICK: HAMLET @ PARAMOUNT MAINSTAGE
When it comes to Hamlet, you can’t do better than thespians from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. It’s as if they’ve trained for this very thing! Tonight, at the Paramount Mainstage, a more “youthful”...
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REVIEW: SHAKESPEARE SPIN TIME
Two takes on Romeo & Juliet impress but fall strange. Two new shows, both alike in modernity, here in Boston currently lay their scene … and in both cases, things get a little weird. In bringing...
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TEMPTED: LAS VEGAS FLIRTS WITH A HIGHBROW ART SCENE
Sitting in eleventh grade English class, blowing off Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, I opened up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the first time. I had started smoking weed the year before, dreaded...
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AT OBERON + LOEB DRAMA CENTER, TOM WAITS ENCHANTS
The joy of being a Tom Waits devotee comes with a little drop of poison: trying to get someone who has never heard of him as hooked as you are. With at least 10 must-have albums and 10 more...
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