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THEATER REVIEW: MILDRED FIERCE
Listen up beautiful people– The Gold Dust Orphans are back with a bang and this time they have some pretty big shoulders to fill. Joan Crawford did it in 1945 and Varla Jean Merman
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THEATER REVIEW: THE LAST WILL
THE LAST WILL is a theatrical bauble– a shimmering amalgam of wishful dreaming, informed speculation, historical fact, literary sleuthing, and some damn fine acting– conjured by Robert Brustein, and presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
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THEATER REVIEW: THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Tennessee Williams’ lyrical soul has come to life onstage at the A.R.T. in a play that can break your heart. THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a poignant masterpiece about a southern family searching for solace
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WIN TICKETS: THE MET LIVE IN HD!
HURRY! FREE TICKETS for OPERA ON THE BIG SCREEN: THE MET LIVE IN HD SERIES!! I have 5 pairs of TICKETS for each date listed below. The first 5 people for each date
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THEATER ROUND-UP: THE ITALIANS, THE IRISH, & THE NORTH KOREANS
There’s an ethnic smorgasbord onstage around town; I’m half Italian– so let’s begin with ArtsEmerson’s presentation of Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’ arte classic THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. A maelstrom of mayhem ensues when
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THEATER: SISTER ACT
I love nuns. I love great voices. So there are the two reasons I was able to sit through the absolutely ridiculous Tony-nominated musical SISTER ACT which just opened at The Boston Opera House.
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THEATER ROUNDUP: 33 VARIATIONS/OTHER DESERT CITIES/MARRY ME A LITTLE
So much to see, so little time– here are few more productions in order of preference beginning with: 33 VARIATIONS–This lovely and satisfying production at the Lyric Stage, elegantly directed by Spiro Veloudos and
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THEATER: INVISIBLE MAN
Begin the new year by seeing the powerful, complex, vividly staged and imagined INVISIBLE MAN. Ralph Ellison’s towering novel of a black man’s struggle for identity has been brilliantly adapted for the stage by
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A HEAD-SPINNING GOLDEN GLOBES 2013!
My head’s STILL spinning from Sunday night’s 70th installment of THE GOLDEN GLOBES! What a wild night. BEN AFFLECK trumped the OSCAR snub by winning– much to his and everyone else’s amazement– BEST DIRECTOR
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THEATER REVIEW: PIPPIN
My husband remarked, that any show that needs a troupe of circus performers to liven it up couldn’t be much of a show to begin with. He has a point. PIPPIN– the 1972 Tony
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