"When you write an article, a piece of reportage, you have to stay within the limits of facts, of what really happened, [but literature] universalizes the truth." - Oriana Fallaci

René Augesen, whom we've seen on stage numerous times here since we began covering theater in 2009, gives a performance for the ages.

MLK mugs for Camae's make-believe camera and we laugh as King does his version of Elvis. The images fly, pure poetry.

'Pageant - The Musical!' provides a whole new take on girl power.

In 'Undisputed Truth', Mike Tyson tells us he doesn't want to fade away. That his legacy matters to him. But he had burned too many bridges, beaten up too many people (Mitch!), kicked his way to the front of too many Burger King lines to earn even a smidgen of a break.

That something extraordinary is afoot is evident even before the curtain opens as ghostly figures of small girls, white dresses matching white pancake, wend their way through the lobby, coursing slowly throughout the theatre.

Grabbing a glass of wine and bite of cheese in their café and sitting on one of the long benches, strategically curved so as to provide an intimate moment, made me deliciously happy. By comparison, Davies Symphony Hall makes you feel as if you're in an airport.

If the photos of Rothko that litter the web are any indication, King completely nails Rothko’s physical persona. His intense performance is so unrelenting that one wonders what it does to one’s spirit to be Mark Rothko, night after night.

The incompleteness don't so much detract as it engages, presenting riddles that need to be uncoded. Without this incompleteness there would be no drama.

Depicting a pre-feminist era when sexual harassment was almost considered acceptable masculine behavior, the story is certainly an eye-opener in terms of the way women were treated 45 years ago.