Our two great regional theater companies have mounted ambitious productions: Huntington Theatre Company's ROMEO AND JULIET charts a tragic end, while American Repertory Theater's ENDLINGS is an interesting beginning. We all know how Romeo and Juliet end up. The challenge is to find a fresh way to envision this tragedy of star-crossed lovers whose feuding [...]
This is the worst time of year for new movies, but theater is alive and kicking on stages around Boston. ONCE is worth seeing again and again, but BIRDY never takes flight. Mackenzie Lesser-Roy & Nile Scott HawverPhoto: Maggie Hall Photography As soon as I knew ONCE was in town, that signature melody [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of "THE AFTERMATH" MONDAY MARCH 18, 2019 7PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download two complimentary passes to this advance screening please visit: “THE AFTERMATH” Release: March 22nd (Boston) Directed by: James Kent Screenplay by: Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse and Rhidian Brook Based on the [...]
OK. The big night is upon us and it's the wild west out there. Not just the Kevin Hart controversy; the cutting telecast categories controversy; the "only Gaga/Kendrick Lamar can sing" controversy; the "popular" movie category controversy; but also that crazy slate of Best Picture nominees with no front runner! Well, the final ballots are [...]
The Lyric Stage company has gone from THE WOLVES to THE LITTLE FOXES, Lillian Hellman's classic about a ravenous pack of southerners hungry for a business deal that would satiate their need for even greater wealth and power. This melodrama set in the antebellum south is brilliantly helmed by Scott Edmiston, staged on a glorious [...]
Women dominate much of what's onstage right now, beginning with George Bernard Shaw's comedy of manners, gender, class, and now-- colonialism and cultural assimilation. PYGMALION has gotten a makeover by New York's brilliant Bedlam theater company by way of Underground Railway Theater at Central Square. It's a crisp, up-to-the minute, vibrant and touching take on a classic. [...]
SO MUCH THEATER OUT THERE NOW! I caught up with five shows while nursing a broken ankle (don't ask) and most of them were worth going the distance. OTHELLO at THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER in Cambridge by way of The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an update on Shakespeare's tragedy about a noble man of [...]
There are two new comedies onstage in Boston right now, both entertaining, and well-executed by superb casts, but it was the scripts that gave me pause. The New England premiere of SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company was a hit off-broadway and absolutely made me laugh-- and that's about it. What we have [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of the STX release "THE UPSIDE" Wednesday January 9, 2019 7PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download two complimentary passes to this advance screening please visit: “THE UPSIDE” (running time 2 hours 6 minutes) Rating: PG-13 for suggestive content and drug use Cast: Nicole Kidman, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Julianna Margulies Writers: Jon Hartmere, Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache Director: [...]
SO many excellent films came out at the 11th hour-- meaning not until FALL 2018 (ridiculously late I might add), that it has taken me until now to see all the good stuff. Here is a list of my TOP TEN favorite films of 2018. Many of these films allowed us to see ourselves in [...]
