Musicals take the stage in Boston this spring--and it's hit and miss. HIT: INTO THE WOODS, Stephen Sondheim's brilliant, bittersweet musical romp through the thicket of life, and Lyric Stage Company of Boston has mounted a marvelous production directed by Spiro Veloudos which has just been extended through June 29th! We're talking ingenious sets (including [...]
Boston Theater Critics Association members with Olympia Dukakis and Paul Daigneault Olympia Dukakis Paul Daigneault It was a fabulous night!! THE MAYOR Marty Walsh spoke about his commitment to Boston as an ARTS town; OSCAR-WINNER Olympia Dukakis was honored, and her cousin and former GOVERNOR Mike Dukakis paid [...]
Forgive me my metaphors but CHEF is an absolutely delicious creation, a nicely balanced recipe for entertainment: food, music, and family saga, peppered with a crash course on social media and just the right combination of stars to spice things up! Writer/director Jon Favreau stars as Carl Casper a chef who's stuck in a dead-end [...]
If you weren't fed up already, you WILL be after you see FED UP--a new documentary on the obesity epidemic and how the food industry has conspired to keep us fat and unhappy, our children becoming the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents! According to FED UP, sugar is the devil and [...]
Watching FADING GIGOLO the new movie written, directed by, and starring John Turturrro, is like joining a crazy conversation in progress-- and trying to catch up. Woody Allen plays an old bookseller named Murray-- who is closing up shop, but is hardly out of ideas. In fact, he's got a dilly: he's pitching his friend [...]
To see OR not to see? That is the question I will answer about what's onstage around town right now. To see: AS YOU LIKE IT presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project at the Springstep Building in Medford! Full disclosure: my husband the brilliant architect Andrew Cohen of ACTWO Architects designed the building, and it has [...]
The letter below was sent to everyone in house over at the Huntington Theatre by Managing Director Michael Maso announcing the death of Nicholas Martin, beloved former artistic director there who died April 30, at age 75 in New York after battling a long illness. Martin directed 18 shows for the Huntington while serving as [...]
There are certain films whose time has passed and THE OTHER WOMAN is one of those. The cultural clock has been ticking and material like this has expired. Or so I thought. Apparently the "throwbacks" among us who think such films are in any way clever, funny, or entertaining-- still exist. The film is a [...]
THE SHAPE SHE MAKES-- floored me. I have always known that we are driven by our unconscious desires, hangups, hurts; that we are deeply formed early on by our first experiences within the family dynamic. Yes, I spent years in therapy, but never have I seen this "through-line" as clearly drawn-- dramatically, musically, and choreographically-- [...]
As President of the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION I am happy to announce our 32nd ANNUAL ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS NOMINATIONS! Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis To Receive Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award SpeakEasy Stage Founder/Artistic Director Paul Daigneault To Receive Annual Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence Monday May 19, 2013 at 7pm The Wheelock Family [...]
