Project #1: Genres Professional Theatre in Boston: The Huntington Theatre

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton (3/5/2004 – 4/4/2004)

"But to settle for calling Orton's comedy funny is not to do it justice."

http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=950DE7D7163AF93AA35750C0A96F948260

"But his satire is as sharp as ever, and his prime targets - mendacity, official fatuousness and the rush to diagnose everything as a neurosis - are if anything even riper"

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-13/entertainment/17210463_1_dr-rance-farce-butler

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1/7/2005 – 2/6/2005)

"Set in eighteenth-centurion Bath, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals is a romantic comedy based around two sets of young lovers and the complications caused by doubt and deception."

http://noordinaryfool.com/2009/07/27/the-rivals/

"In many ways, it’s a conventional comedy of manners."

http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3457/artsbooks/6765/absolutely_.html

The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein (11/4/2005 – 12/4/2005)

"perfect comedy-drama with solid acting on the part of the three sisters."

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s765.html

"Wasserstein's hit comedy reunites three Jewish-American sisters"

http://www.goldstar.com/events/san-francisco-ca/the-sisters-rosensweig.html

The Hopper Collection by Mat Smart (2/14/2006 — 3/12/2006)

"This 80-minute, stylish drama reminds me of Edward Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s721.html

"The Hopper Collection is not a suspenseful thriller but a quirky, stop-start comedy with the audience dropped smack dab in the middle of things."

http://www.theatermirror.com/CRhopperhuntington.htm

Brendan by Ronan Noone (10/12/2007 ­— 11/17/2007)

"“It’s a comedy,” Noone explains. “I know people expect profound, life-changing works.""

http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/48350-brendan/

"Billed as a comedy, Brendan is more drama with a few comedic scenes thrown in."

http://www.theatermirror.com/RMGbhnoone.htm

She Loves Me by Masteroff, Harnick, & Bock (5/16/2008 — ­6/15/2008)

"For lush musical-comedy romanticism, it's hard to beat She Loves Me"

http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/reviews/11-2004/she-loves-me_5291.html

"a crown jewel of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical"

http://broadwaytalk.com/regional/nj/nj70.html

How Shakespeare Won the West by Richard Nelson (9/5/2008 ­— 10/5/2008)

"Nelson's new play also tends to ramble, sometimes veers jarringly between comedy and tragedy, and generally feels a little shaggy around the edges."

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/09/16/shakespeare_strikes_gold/

"The comedy, receiving its world premiere, may be based on actual accounts, but it feels like a pastiche of Deadwood, the Bard, and jovial comic farce"

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=theatre&sc2=reviews&sc3=performance&id=79089

The Miracle at Naples by David Grimm (4/3/2009 ­— 5/9/2009)

"A series of lovers romp through the town piazza seeking pleasure and finding love in this outrageously smart and bawdy comedy from David Grimm"

http://www.americantowns.com/ma/boston/events/the-miracle-at-naples-by-david-grimm-14

"David Grimm and Peter DuBois collaborate on a saucy period comedy"

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/10/all_for_naughty/

All My Sons by by Arthur Miller (1/8/2010 — 2/7/2010)

"Sure it's a melodrama mounted on a soap box"

http://www.curtainup.com/allsons.html

"gripping look into the hearts of the characters in the drama"

http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x1301080424/THEATER-REVIEW-All-My-Sons-has-a-secret-to-spill

Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (3/5/2010 — 4/4/2010)

"Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy of bad manners, a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s, is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last."

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/theater/reviews/09shaw.html

"Gina Gionfriddo’s “Becky Shaw,” an absorbing comedy-drama about a blind date that threatens to become a marriage-devouring black hole"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/theater/01humana.html