Paul Birchall

PROOF at the Moth Theatre

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama about love, grief, and higher mathematics gets a solid, if not prime (in the Gaussian sense) staging in director John Markland’s elegiac production.  Markland’s production emphasizes subtext and psychology over blocking, with the result that the show seems more conversational than composed – … Read more

SILENT WITNESSES at the Odyssey Theatre

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright-actor Stephanie Satie’s solo show uses the format of a group therapy session to depict the oral histories told by survivors of the Holocaust survivors who were children when the German Nazi concentration camps were functioning. These are women who survived either because they were hidden by parents and friends, … Read more