Nancy E.Carroll and Michael Kaye. Photo by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo In MOTHERS & SONS, we never meet the son, but we meet his mother immediately, center stage, heavily defended in thick fur. Katherine (Nancy E. Carroll) has just paid a surprise visit to her deceased son's former partner Cal (Michael Kaye) and [...]
Reagle Music Theatre is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to Guys and Dolls on Friday, June 12th exclusively through JoycesChoices! Guys and Dolls runs from June 11-21 at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham (617 Lexington Street). Enter to win! Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will open its 47th consecutive summer season with the Broadway favorite,Guys and Dolls, from June 11-21, [...]
Duke of Gloucester (Allyn Burrows*), Duchess Eleanor (Marya Lowry*), King Henry (Jesse Hinson*), and Queen Margaret (Jennie Israel*) Photo Courtesy Stratton McCrady Photography 2015. I was exhausted after a long day; could I really drive into town at rush hour, and make it through a two hour 45 minute Shakespeare History play-- namely HENRY VI, PART 2? It [...]
Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac. Photo by Gretjen Helene/A.R.T. If the end of the world were tomorrow, there's no one I'd rather have shuffle me off to Buffalo and back than Mandy Patinkin (in his A.R.T. debut) and Taylor Mac ("The Lily's Revenge") as a pair of waterlogged vaudevillians who tap their way ashore after a global [...]
photo: by Matt West From left, Boston Theater Critics Association president Joyce Kulhawik, Lea DeLaria and Ryan Landry on the red carpet at the Elliot Norton Awards. The dust has settled on the 33rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards presented by the Boston Theater Critics Association, [...]
This Monday May 11, 7 PM you're all invited to the event I've been working on ALL YEAR -- THE NORTIES, more formally known as THE ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS onstage at THE SHUBERT THEATRE. (BUY TICKETS HERE!) It's the night The Boston Theater Critics Association passes out awards to our fabulous theater community, then passes out at a [...]
There's a lovely, touching production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK playing through this weekend, presented and performed by the acclaimed Boston Children's Theatre in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank's death. On stage at the Calderwood Pavilion, the BCT production is impressive not only because of its sophisticated [...]
Take a deep breath and prepare to be moved. COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA the American classic by William Inge is now onstage in a breathtakingly poignant production that's just been extended by popular demand. This SHEBA is produced by the Huntington Theatre Company and directed by David Cromer who illuminated another classic "OUR TOWN" a few seasons back, and here works [...]
Fiddlehead Theatre Company is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to the opening night of Jesus Christ Superstar exclusively through Joyce’s Choices! Jesus Christ Superstar runs from April 24-May 3 at the historic Strand Theatre. Enter to win! Fiddlehead presents the Tony-Award winning rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, directed and costumed by Fiddlehead’s Associate Producing Artistic Director Stacey Stephens. Loosely based on the Gospels’ accounts of the [...]
Remember that famous number from GYPSY where three strippers advise a novice on how to take it all off, "You Gotta Get a Gimmick"? Well imagine now that it's three men (?) in burqas peeking through veiled flaps over heavily mascara-ed eyes singing "You Gotta Get a Burqa"! This is the kind of irreverence Ryan Landry and his Gold [...]
