Photo by Andrew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures. Take a deep breath and get ready for the season opener at the New Repertory Theatre: BROKEN GLASS. It's a potent dose of Arthur Miller, 1994, and a play that has never been performed in the Boston area before. It's set in 1938 and in Germany [...]
I've grown accustomed to seeing MY FAIR LADY. With each viewing I have been more or less delighted, entertained, and amused by this classic, onstage and onscreen. But never did I expect to be newly aroused by the characters, or for the first time find Henry Higgins of "romantic" interest, let alone care about the socio-economic struggle underpinning this tale about a linguistics professor [...]
Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and WAITRESS the world premiere, Broadway-bound musical composed by Grammy-nominated artist Sara Bareilles and directed by the A.R.T.'s Tony award-winning artistic director Diane Paulus. Start [...]
(l to r) Regan (Jeanine Kane), Cordelia (Libby McKnight), King Lear (Will Lyman), Regan (Deb Martin)Photo:Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures It was a sweltering night when I saw Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common, but so absorbing and mighty was Will Lyman’s performance as KING LEAR that I hardly noticed the elements, save [...]
Don’t wait another minute to get a ticket to the funniest show in town right now: Marisa Smith’s "SAVING KITTY" presented by the Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater and starring Boston's own divine Jennifer Coolidge, star of Film (breakthrough role: "American Pie" as Stifler’s infamous mom), TV (“2 Broke Girls”), and the Broadway stage [...]
STOP THE PRESSES: NEWSIES is a smash! The voices! The dancing! The sets! If you're looking for some rip-roaring entertainment to add to the fireworks this 4rth of July week, head to Boston's Opera House for a terrific production of the Tony Award-winning Boston premiere of Disney's NEWSIES! It's an industrial strength musical about all-American pluck and ingenuity and [...]
Jacob Harris,Composer/ Elegy for the Victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing The surviving victims of the Marathon Bombing have had a last chance to speak directly to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court after he was sentenced to death. The survivors have been sentenced to life in the aftermath of losing life and limb. The son of dear family [...]
Head on up to Gloucester Stage for the last week of a touching play with a marvelous cast. SWEET AND SAD is part 2 of the four-part "The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country " cycle of plays by Tony-Award winning playwright Richard Nelson, here co-presented by Stoneham Theatre. This slice of the apple is juicier than [...]
Maria Jan Carreon in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them Company One has done it again with the most provocative, engrossing, well-acted, and directed show onstage in Boston right now: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM. It's another unwieldy but aptly titled play by hot new playwright A. Rey Pamatmat whose [...]
Tina Chilip and Zachary Booth Photo: T. Charles Erickson AFTER ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS I DO-- with whom does that not resonate? Who among us hasn't searched for forgiveness, or at least understanding after all or even one terrible thing we've done? The new play by [...]
