Stage worthies ... A quick look at this past year in Boston's theater scene ... THE SALT GIRL You couldn’t take your eyes off John Kuntz’s obsessive-compulsive loner — and that was before he put on the panda suit ... After an engagement of some 15 months (and a Best Revival Tony Award for her Broadway reprise of Hair ), downtown New York theater star Diane Paulus finally became the bride of American Repertory Theater. And if the honeymoon dubbed "Shakespeare Exploded!" is any indication,
The Comedy of Errors on Boston Common ... The bay of Ephesus laps Collins Avenue in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Latin-tinged, frisky if over-frenetic The Comedy of Errors (at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common through August 16). It is not across sands of subtlety but through a spray of salsa that the perpetrators of this 1930s-South-Beach-set riff on Shakespeare's early comedy pratfall ... THREE STOOGES SHAKESPEARE?: Hey, nobody ever said The Comedy of Errors was Hamlet ... The