SWEENEY TODD-- Stephen Sondheim's Tony award-winning masterpiece is a damned fine musical--emphasis on "damned." We're talking a macabre plot based on a 19th century English "penny dreadful" involving a demon barber--wrongfully imprisoned, his wife raped and daughter stolen-- who returns with a vengeance and slits the throats of his shave-craving clients after which his landlady [...]
Win a pair of tickets to the one-night-only event MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2! MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2 will be shown in select theatres on Saturday, September 13th at 8:00PM live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. For a chance to win a pair of complimentary passes to the Showcase Patriot Place in [...]
It's time for the stars of summer --Godzilla, the Guardians of the Galaxy, those rebellious apes, and Tom Cruise-- to make way for the more adult pleasures of FALL. Things are getting serious now as movies designed to jolt the brain as much as the blood pressure are set to hit the big screen, many of [...]
Warren Jackson, Jacqui Parker & Jermel Nakia Let me help you make your Labor Day Weekend plans! Start by heading up to glorious Gloucester for a remarkable Gloucester Stage Company production of August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece FENCES, featuring an extraordinary performance among many great performances that make this production a must-see. [...]
The world premiere musical FINDING NEVERLAND now playing at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge is part magic and mostly schlock-- which might be a recipe for a Broadway smash (It's headed there in March 2015) but left me hungry for the production I believe it can be. The show is based on the 2004 [...]
It was August 11--my mother's birthday, and the day we couldn't wait for--the beginning of our yearly retreat to Martha's Vineyard, a longed for respite from what ails us all year, a sunny bright day that promised a happy ending. Somewhere, thousands of miles away, a man beloved by the world, and the cause of [...]
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The best movie I've seen all summer is LIFE ITSELF, a documentary about one of the most formidable movie critics in history-- and certainly the most famous, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and conqueror of cancer: Roger Ebert. The disease killed him, but Roger won. At the beginning of his memoir, Roger wrote, "I was [...]
It's one of the most talked about movies of the year and almost universally praised:BOYHOOD--and it's mesmerizing. Oscar-nominated writer/director Richard Linklater has once again focused on the evolution of characters over time. Linklater, who gave us the "Before" trilogy ("Before Sunset," "Before Midnight," "Before Sunrise") has here traced the growing up of a young Texas [...]
I hate to say this-- but Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common TWELFTH NIGHT-- was a drag. And I'm not referring to the Bard's familiar penchant for having girls dress like boys-- which Viola does here, becoming a dead ringer for her twin brother Sebastian, which of course leads to all manner [...]
