Stage Review: “Ain’t Misbehavin'” at the Lyric Jason Rabin December 10, 2011 A revue of the work of Fats Waller, who seems to have written every great song of the 20's and 30's.
Stage Review: Kathleen Turner in “High” at the Emerson Majestic Jason Rabin December 10, 2011 Kathleen Turner plays a tough-talking nun, asked by a shady preist to save a drug-addicted street hustler
Stage Review: “Moby Dick” from Gare St Lazare Players Ireland, at ArtsEmerson Jason Rabin November 10, 2011 Like an old man in a bar, coaxed by the patrons to tell his survival story one more time for the newcomers
Stage Review: “Mabou Mines Dollhouse” at ArtsEmerson Jason Rabin November 5, 2011 I was shocked, moved, tickled and puzzled by this production. I was never bored.
Stage Review: “Before I Leave You” at the Huntington Jason Rabin November 4, 2011 Graying Cantabrigians on love, friendship, success, racial identify and Chinese food
Stage Review: “In the Red and Brown Water” at Company One Jason Rabin November 2, 2011 Yoruban demigods reincarnated in a Louisiana ghetto
Stage Review: The Civilians’ “You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce” at ArtsEmerson Jason Rabin October 28, 2011 Actors tell the stories of their parents' divorces, in their parents' own words--as their parents
Stage Review: “Or,” at the Lyric Jason Rabin October 18, 2011 Aphra Behn gets the "Shakespeare in Love" treatment
Stage Review: “Next Fall” at SpeakEasy Stage Company Jason Rabin October 7, 2011 Adam can't stand that his lover cares more about God than him. Especially since he doesn't believe in God. In fact, it's worse than that...
Stage Review: “Twelfth Night” staged by Actors’ Shakespeare Project Jason Rabin October 4, 2011 A fresh take with understated humor and traces of darkness
Stage Review: “The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer” at ArtsEmerson Jason Rabin September 30, 2011 John Malkovich is a serial killer, on a book tour, inserted into an opera.
Stage Review: “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” at the Lyric Jason Rabin September 19, 2011 The quintessential American adventure tale cruises in musical form
Stage Review: “How Much is Enough: Our Values In Question,” The Foundry Theatre at ArtsEmerson Jason Rabin September 19, 2011 What happens when you skip the whole "play" part of a play and jump right into the talk-back?
Stage Review: “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” at the A.R.T. Jason Rabin September 2, 2011 See it here before New York gets it!
Stage Review: PigPen Theatre’s “The Mountain Song” at Company One Jason Rabin June 15, 2011 An Appalachian folk tale with music and puppetry
Stage Review: Propeller’s “Richard III” at the Huntington Jason Rabin June 7, 2011 Witness the bloody rise, slow maddening and sudden descent of the dictator
Stage Review: Propeller’s “Comedy of Errors” at the Huntington Jason Rabin June 7, 2011 An all male "Errors" with a mariachi band.
Stage Review: Antony and Cleopatra staged by Actors’ Shakespeare Project Jason Rabin May 15, 2011 Sexual politics with an emphasis on the latter.
Stage Review: “Sons of the Prophet” at the Huntington Jason Rabin April 30, 2011 World premier of Stephen Karem's tragicomic, family drama without the parents
Stage Review: Whistler in the Dark’s “The Europeans” Joelle Jameson February 19, 2011 A historical drama with modern style