THIS JUST IN: BEAUTIFUL, MATILDA THE MUSICAL, IF/THEN, PIPPIN and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA headline the 2015-2016 Broadway In Boston Season! A new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST returns and back by popular demand - THE BOOK OF MORMON!! Broadway In Boston revealed today its 2015-2016 Lexus Broadway Season which will feature [...]
And the shows go on!! If you can make your way through the piles of white stuff-- there's lot to warm your heart out there on stage. Here's what I've seen recently: INTIMATE APPAREL: This is a warm, wise tale about about an African-American seamstress's hopes and dreams unfolding against the huge historical changes afoot at [...]
What to see now ONSTAGE? There are a slew of good productions playing, and I am going to give you thumbnail reviews to catch up and let you know where I think your time is best spent beginning with the following DO NOT MISS SHOW: --The miraculous BEDLAM'S ST. JOAN presented by Underground Railway Theater and directed by Eric Tucker [...]
Fiddlehead Theatre Company is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to the opening night of The Wiz exclusively through Joyce's Choices! THE WIZ runs from Feb. 13-22nd at the historic Strand Theatre. Enter to win! The Wiz is a modern re-telling of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum that sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz to music in a [...]
Two nights ago at Boston's Opera House MOTOWN The Musical moved everything-- except me. Sets, settings, singers, dancers, plot lines: race, romance, business, music, internal politics-- it's all up there onstage. Here come the Supremes! What's goin' on with Marvin? Who are these Jackson kids? Smokey is a daily miracle. They're dancing in the streets--Martha and her Vandellas, Gladys and her PIPS! Look out-- [...]
One can just imagine what the late Molly Ivins' reaction to the murder of French journalists by islamic terrorists bent on silencing Charlie Hebdo's brand of political satire might have been. The late Texas liberal journalist, political humorist/commentator and thorn in the side of those who would, by design or their own imbecility, stifle our [...]
BOYHOOD: Richard Linklater's extraordinary "12 years a film" feat! He directed the same cast over a dozen years and captured the ephemeral truth about one boy's childhood and growing up in a broken home. It's a "meta" experience for filmgoers who watch the actors and the characters they play, age on camera over time, while the boy played by the soulful Ellar Coltrane--expressive and [...]
There's a world premiere onstage right now at SpeakEasy Stage Company that rattled my cage; in fact, it's staged in a cage, the audience peering in from either side as NECESSARY MONSTERS took shape before us. Award- winning actor/playwright John Kuntz and award-winning director David R. Gammons along with a cast of Boston's best actors have [...]
Hey look. I have not blasphemed. I am just quoting the title of the latest holiday offering now onstage at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts, home to Ryan Landry and those rascally Gold Dust Orphans! And I must say, the title alone had me in hysterics. As a lapsed and relapsed Catholic who still retains more than [...]
You got yer ADD, yer ADHD, yer PTSD, yer OCD and now yer O.P.C. at the A.R. T.! The title stands for "Obsessive Political Correctness," a syndrome that plagues the compulsively sensitive, and finds its expression in a world premiere production by author, activist, & Tony-Award winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" Eve Ensler, who [...]
