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‘Playboy of the Western World’ at Raven: A killer on the lam, town eager to crown him a hero

Mar 4, 2014 – 11:07 pm | 7,837 views
The rural rascal Christy (Sam Hubbard) draws the village girls in 'Playboy of the Western World' at Raven Theatre. (Keith Claunch)

Review: We cannot watch or read the likes of Brian Friel’s “Translations” or Martin McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” without sensing the sublimated presence of John Millington Synge’s 1907 comedy “The Playboy of the Western World.” It is a cornerstone of modern Irish theater, and it’s all there in Raven Theatre’s idiomatic staging — the brisk dialect and wry humor, the tumbling physicality and muted hues, the seed and genesis of everything we love about Irish drama in the present tense. ★★★★

‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ at Raven: A young man’s fancy swings from baseball to – sex!

May 20, 2013 – 11:22 pm | 13,025 views
Sophia Menendian, left, with Elizabeth Stenholt in Brighton Beach Memoirs credit Dean LaPrairie

Review: ★★★★