Les Justes
Artisphere, Arlington, Va., (888) 841-2787
Albert Camus was clearly “more interested in articulating ideas than in dramatizing them” when he wrote this 1949 play about Russian political assassins, said The Washington Post. Jay Hardee’s “bright, fast” production can’t help but feel a little dry as a result, even though the actors “hit the small stage with maximum adrenaline.”
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Central Square Theater, Cambridge, Mass., (617) 576-9278
Writer Anna Ziegler has trained “a long-overdue spotlight” on physicist Rosalind Franklin, said The Boston Globe. Becky Webber’s “carefully calibrated” portrayal of Franklin reveals this little-known DNA pioneer to have been both a hero of scientific discovery and “a compelling character.”
The Cost of the Erection
The Blank Theatre Co., Los Angeles, (323) 661-9827
Jon Marans channels both Noël Coward’s effervescence and the subtle menace of Edward Albee’s best dramas in this “sly and sophisticated portrait of marital strife,” said Backstage.com. Its story about two Manhattan couples “bristles with sardonic humor and startling character revelations.”
