Topic: Annie Baker

Even if 2010 wasn't a banner year in theater, there was still much to savor. That includes stars and newcomers delivering A-plus performances to...
For both Ralf Little and Mackenzie Crook to appear in this production of a new work by an American not yet well-known in this country is a real coup for the Bush, a theatre with a capacity of just 80. Yet Annie ...

From high seas to The Bush for Mackenzie Crook

Mackenzie Crook was seen by millions in The Office and Pirates of the Caribbean but will be performing in front of a much smaller audience in his next role.. The 38-year-old star, pictured, whose stage credits include The Seagull and Jerusalem at ...

Annie Baker: Laughing at the Laugh

You know, I definitely used to think of putting on a play as more of a " And with theater, I always, always, as an audience member, want to leap onstage and fuck things up. I think it's also one of the ...

Circle Mirror Transformation

Are we going to be doing any real acting? " asks the teenage Lauren (Tracee Chimo), annoyed by the group exercises she has been doing in a Vermont community-center drama class. " That exchange, which comes roughly 45 minutes into Annie Baker's Circle ...

Body Awareness

New England's stern Puritans have long since turned to dust in their lonely graves, but their spiritual descendants are very much alive, thanks to Annie Baker. The title comes from a "Body Awareness Week" organized at Shirley State by feminist psychology ...

Thicker than Water (Off-Off Broadway)

Dramatist is the not the hippest job around, but Ensemble Studio Theatre's group Youngblood makes you forget that: Chief among these is Annie Baker's light but affecting comedy Group, in which a miserable single mother (Catherine Curtin) and a callow ...