The Shakespeare Theater’s production of The Servant of Two Masters is the most outrageously over-the-top, nonstop, roll-in-the-aisles funny thing to hit this town in recent memory.
Frequent asides are the trademark of this play, as O’Neill voices the thoughts of his characters on the fly, in the midst of their lives.
Productions of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice keep getting darker and darker, grittier and grittier. The admirable Shakespeare Theatre production further ups the pace by eroding shaky comedy and heightening rock-hard tragedy.
Refinement and restraint are much in evidence in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current revival of this dark comedy.
The nominations for the 27th Helen Hayes Awards were announced on February 28, 2011 at The National Theatre, Helen Hayes Gallery. View the nominations by category or by company.