So much theater-- so little time! Here's a round up beginning with the best of what's onstage right now! TALLEY'S FOLLY at Merrimack Repertory Theatre is terrific. This 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning play set on July 4, 1944 by Lanford Wilson about two lonely souls navigating a potentially romantic relationship finds a lovely home at the [...]
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Two quick reviews before the weekend! NOAH is a crazy film by Darren Aronofsky (THE FOUNTAIN, BLACK SWAN) manifesting the filmmaker's trademark tussle with the unknowable and a feverish attempt to reconcile good and evil, faith and fear, while yoking the otherworldly to concrete reality. Russell Crowe as Noah gets the message to build an [...]
You know how Chekhov insists that his plays are comedies? Well the Huntington Theatre Company's production of THE SEAGULL proves the point--it's practically a laugh riot, which only enhances its serious impact. From the play's first two lines, when the schoolmaster Medvedenko asks Masha why she is always wearing black, Masha-- who is in love [...]
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The modern day spinner of cinematic fairytales, Wes Anderson, is like that other "Andersen"--Hans Christian-- in his telling of layered fables that have adults, as well as children in their sights. But Wes Anderson accentuates the comedy, like "concupiscent curds" atop a heady brew of murder, mutilation, and even deeper mayhem. His latest THE GRAND [...]
OK-- BREAKING THE SHAKESPEARE CODE is a terrible title for a great new play put on by Vagabond Theatre Group but don't let that put you off! Last Saturday I felt "ultra-Bohemian" as I made my way to one of Boston's tiny little hidden theaters in the South End, through a parking lot and down [...]
MORE great theater in town--this time at SpeakEasy Stage Company which presents the New England premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's off-broadway hit THE WHALE. Superbly cast and tackling a profusion of problems, the show rivets us with its initial image. But first-- we hear the ocean; then we see a 600 pound man sitting center stage [...]
There are two extremely well-executed classics on stage in Boston right now, but you couldn't find two more wildly different experiences, in theme and execution: the first a tragedy about illusions that destroy, and the other a comedy about illusions that reveal and make merry; one realistic/naturalistic, the other, cutting edge-- with puppets! Lyric Stage [...]
The Oscar blitz is over and it's bottom of the barrel time for movies. BUT-- there's some GREAT theater out there beginning with an absolutely gorgeous, funny, poignant, beautifully acted THE CHERRY ORCHARD which has been knocking 'em dead at an elegant mansion in Newton! I love theater in beautiful, unusual places-- and Actors' Shakespeare [...]
