February 20, 2012

The atmospheric conditions in the BU Theatre Lane-Comley Studio 210 are just right for Obie Award-winning playwright Neal Bell's unsettling stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, presented by the Boston Center for American Performance.

February 16, 2012

By James Foritano

February 21, 2012

FRANKENSTEIN IS SO DIFFICULT TO ADAPT for the stage because it’s such a novel. Push the pop cultural appropriation of Mary Shelley’s plot aside, and you’re left with fat epistolary sections and long-winded monologues, rich in detail and broad in scope.

February 13, 2012

With his stage adaptation of "Frankenstein," a work titled "Monster," Neal Bell pares and re-shapes a classic story of scientific and ethical horrors, creating a subtext of repressed sexual yearning while sharpening--and moving beyond--Shelley's existential themes.

January 31, 2013

It’s the caviar of street drugs, the choice drug of celebrities: cocaine. But John Shea’s cast of characters in his original play, Erin Go Bragh-less, show you that doing a line of cocaine isn’t enough to transport you out of your own dysfunctional reality.