Review: Boston Court’s Rare Tennessee Williams’ Revival Rises to the Moment, Plus More Notable Small Theater Reviews

Review: Boston Court’s rare Tennessee Williams’ revival rises to the moment, plus more notable small theater reviews

Reviews of 'The Night of the Iguana' at Boston Court Pasadena, 'Fly Me to the Sun' at the Fountain Theatre and 'Adolescent Salvation' in an intimate Rogue Machine production at the Henry Murray Stage at the Matrix.

Boston Court’s rare Tennessee Williams’ revival rises to the moment, plus more notable small theater reviews

‘The Night of the Iguana’ The prospect of a revival of “The Night of the Iguana,” a Tennessee Williams play rarely revived anymore, seemed like a luxury I wasn’t sure I could afford in the ongoing political emergency. But as the fine Boston Court Pasadena production, incisively directed by Jessica Kubzansky, bears out, Williams is the humane, humorously defiant playwright we need when authoritarianism is on the march. “The Night of the Iguana” t…

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Riley Shanahan and Jully Lee (Photo by Brian Hashimoto) Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Boston Court Through October 19 Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the came into being first as an essay, then a short story, and lastly as a one-act before finally emerging as a full length theater piece, though that too went through a couple of permutations before premiering on Broadway in 1961. Regarded as Williams’s last major drama, the play embraces multiple …