Want to be superficial and delight in the moment? Then dash to the best show in town right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's season ender PRIVATE LIVES! Witness an effervescent ensemble who add extra crackle to Noel Coward's crisply witty comedy. On the surface everyone behaves beautifully, while underneath feelings are as unstable and evanescent [...]
This is going to be one of the more unusual events I've hosted in a season of unusual events-- I'll see you there tonight at the Old South Church!!! MEOW!!!
It's marvelously entertaining, warm, funny, sweet and a bit bawdy at the same time-- and you're in luck BECAUSE: The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has extended the run of AVENUE Q for one more week- due to unprecedented ticket demand! Absolutely must close July 1!! Avenue Q is now the highest grossing production in [...]
DARK SHADOWS started out fun and creepy and ended up tedious and dopey. Johnny Depp's "odd" character choices are beginning to wear on me. I like my vampires smoldering and beautiful. But Depp's ghoulishly nerdy Barnabas Collins back from the grave looks like Michael Jackson on a really bad day. So the hardest thing to [...]
Come to the 30th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS: MONDAY MAY 21st 7-9 PM Paramount Center, Boston!! Tony award-winning Broadway legend TOMMY TUNE will PERFORM and Receive Lifetime Achievement Award! KATE SNODGRASS will Receive Prize for Sustained Excellence! See all your favorite actors and productions honored by the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION this Monday night!! I [...]
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND'S ‘WRECKING BALL’ WORLD TOUR CONTINUES IN US AND CANADA TOUR TO HIT BOSTON’S HISTORIC FENWAY PARK ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT 10:00 AM Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band made history on September 6, 2003 when they headlined [...]
I have never laughed so long and so hard in my life. I may never need abdominal exercises again: I just saw the most obscenely funny show in town-- MARY POPPERS now playing at MACHINE-- otherwise known as The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. It's the latest Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans [...]
YOU MUST SEE The Tony Award-winning Broadway show FELA now playing at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre!! It's a spectacularly inspiring hybrid: theater, music, dance, biography, history lesson, political rally, religious experience, and the first theatrical production I've REALLY wanted to write about in awhile. Directed and choregraphed by the great Bill T. Jones, FELA is [...]
WIN the ultimate HUMAN NATURE prize package! The Motown inspired group will be live in concert on May 4th at The Orpheum Theatre in Boston. Enter for your chance to win two tickets to the show, as well as sound check access before the show and the chance to meet the cast of HUMAN NATURE! [...]
Waiting for Chemo? Check out the Andy Warhol and over 500 pieces of art on the walls of Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute! I had my own chemotherapy at the Dana over 20 years ago. Not only have the therapies greatly improved over all that time, saving more lives than ever before--but so has the [...]
