I have seen DEAR EVAN HANSEN and remain overwhelmed by the lyrical beauty of its score (Benj Pasek & Justin Paul), the power of these performances, and the emotional intelligence of its book (Steven Levenson). This Tony Award-winning musical juggernaut has as ardent a following as "Hamilton" and with good reason. I saw it for [...]
HURRY and GET YOUR PASSES to FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 2019 7:00 PM ShowPlace ICON Boston Seaport 60 Seaport Blvd Boston, MA, 02210 To download a pass for two, please click: http://uareleasingscreenings.com/JoyceBernadette *Please note that seating is limited and on a first come first serve basis, get [...]
A famous critic once said, "The curtain went up at 8 o'clock sharp and came down at 10:30 dull." The sentiment applies to the only pre-Broadway engagement of TEA AT FIVE now onstage at the Huntington Avenue Theatre. Photography: Nile Scott Studios TEA AT FIVE is a dated, sentimental sliver of a [...]
What do the Three Musketeers, two young newlyweds, and Austen's Bennet sisters have in common? They're all subjects for some good old-fashioned fun onstage around town this weekend! Head to Stoneham for the Greater Boston Stage Company and The Front Porch Arts Collective production of Dumas' swashbuckler THE THREE MUSKETEERS which reframes the 17th century [...]
Head for Central Square and be on CLOUD 9! The Nora Theatre Company's latest production puts you there. An extremely nimble ensemble directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner takes Caryl Churchill's rambunctious, gender-bending, time-warping, traditional and taboo sexual roundelay and skewers white patriarchal oppression from Victorian British Colonial Africa (Act I) to swinging late '70's London [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of the UNIVERSAL release: "YESTERDAY" TO SIGN UP for the advance screening of YESTERDAY on Tuesday, June 25 at 7pm at AMC Loews Boston Common, click here: https://forms.gle/tMJ1B94XVruFxtZP8 PLEASE NOTE: By completing this form, your name will automatically be added to the advance screening RSVP list. Duplicate names will [...]
The opening scene of YERMA is a beauty. The strains of a haunting melody waft over a bed center stage in a sea of yellow flowers. We see a woman's naked back undulating as she makes love to her husband in the soft light of an early morning before he heads off for the day. [...]
OH WHAT A NIGHT! Faye Dunaway as our Guest of Honor. Pinch me. Melinda Lopez our big Elliot Norton Prize winner. Nick Christopher from HAMILTON kicking off the show. A preview of the A.R.T.s world premiere musical WE LIVE IN CAIRO. AND--the whole glorious cast of SpeakEasy's ONCE performing that beautiful song on our stage. [...]
SCHOOL GIRLS; Or, The African mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Summer L. Williams is now on stage and DO check this one out at SpeakEasy Stage. In their hands, this material about queen bees, their followers, and beauty standards is sharp and funny, with a denouement that stings us awake as [...]
As superheroes dominate big screens around the world, a bawdy bunch of bionic thespians have taken the stage over at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts! Meet THE EBONIC WOMAN a new musical comic book farce loaded with social commentary and satiric sass from Ryan Landry and his unstoppable GOLD DUST ORPHANS. This is [...]
