Carmen Barsomian-Dietrich

THE COURT OF PUBLIC PREJUDICE Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation benefits from thoughtful acting and restrained staging More than six decades after Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, its questions about racial injustice, moral responsibility, and respect remain painfully relevant. In Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation, director Loretta Greco brings those questions into sharp focus at The…

WHAT’S BIGGER THAN THE FAMILY? Lyric Stage’s intimate production of Arthur Miller’s classic asks how far our responsibility extends beyond those we call our own Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is a haunting psychological American drama that takes place in 1947, capturing the postwar tension. The play is, first and foremost, a study of human…

WHEN YOU’RE HOPING FOR A HARBOR A stirring in-the-round production finds hope, humor, and humanity in the strangers who became a community Director Kevin P. Hill’s production of Come From Away lands at North Shore Music Theatre as a timely reminder of human grace and community in the face of adversity. Irene Sankoff and David…