Robert Woodruff

Latest Articles

New blood

ART and the Huntington (and Boston theater) get a youth transfusion
The famously adventurous American Repertory Theatre is soon to be taken over by a woman who spent her summer directing . . . the vintage Broadway hits Kiss Me, Kate and Hair ?
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 10, 2008

The best on the boards

Theatre: 2007 in review
There have been a few muggings on the rialto this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 17, 2007

Norton Awards go silver

Kudos
The Elliot Norton Awards turned 25 on Monday night — though that’s nothing compared with Norton himself, who lived to be 100.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 23, 2007

Best on the boards

Certainly Nicholas Martin will leave the Huntington a livelier place than when he took over.
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 20, 2007

Tyrants’ tales

American Repertory Theatre’s Britannicus, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s The Winter’s Tale
According to legend, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 30, 2007

Rule, Britannicus?

American Repertory Theatre does rare racine
The ruler of the mightiest nation in the world has begun to appreciate his power.
By IRIS FANGER | January 09, 2007

The importance of being Ridiculus

Oscar Wilde at the ART
You wouldn’t think that an effective way into the heart of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest would be to play down the comedy’s slapstick farce, stentorian wit, fast pacing, or romantic heterosexuality.
By ED SIEGEL | January 02, 2007

A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 28, 2006

Best on the boards

A year in theater
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 19, 2006

Crying game

The Dresden Dolls and the ART grapple in The Onion Cellar
The Onion Cellar that Amanda Palmer envisioned is not the one that the ART will present at Zero Arrow Theatre.
By JIM SULLIVAN | December 07, 2006

Flights of angels

Wings of Desire takes the stage
In Wim Wenders’s iconic 1987 film Wings of Desire , the Berlin Wall is a character. In Ola Mafaalani’s theatricalization of the work for Toneelgroep Amsterdam and the American Repertory Theatre, the Fourth Wall is.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 05, 2006

Kids’ stuff

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant ; Exceptions to Gravity
As the world’s most famous Scientologist honeymoons in the Maldives, junior-bird-man havoc is being wreaked on Tom Cruise’s ideology of choice.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 28, 2006

Poetry in motion

Love’s Labour’s Lost , Island of Slaves
The eyes have it in Love’s Labour’s Lost , in which ocular imagery duels with what Harold Bloom calls a “florabundance of language” in the arch arias of courtier Berowne, who sees himself writ large in the “pitch-ball” peepers of Rosaline.
By CARLOYN CLAY | May 28, 2006

Club Marivaux

ART docks at Island of Slaves
When Pierre Marivaux’s play Island of Slaves was presented at Versailles in 1725, Louis XV and his retinue were not amused, and it’s no wonder.
By IRIS FANGER | May 10, 2006

Boston theater season announced

High Fidelity to world premiere in the fall
Boston’s biggest theatrical guns have announced what they’ll be showing next season, and it isn’t all Annie and Aeschylus .
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 27, 2006

Down under

Rinde Eckert retools the Orpheus myth
The myth of Orpheus is a Rorschach blot at which artists from Monteverdi and Gluck to Jean Cocteau and Marcel Camus have squinted over the centuries, seeing different and sometimes shifting shapes.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 04, 2006