There's a whole lotta theater goin' on-- here's my take in short: ETHER DOME presented by The Huntington Theatre Company at BU is neither a gas, nor did it put me to sleep. Billed as a medical thriller about the very first surgery performed under anesthesia in 1846 under the "dome" at MGH, the real story is fascinating, but the [...]
Who could forget Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Hepburn's niece (I could forget her) in the landmark 1967 film about a rich white girl bringing her black upwardly mobile fiance home to meet her parents in the provocatively titled GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? I remember being completely intrigued-- couldn't wait to see [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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-- [...]
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 [...]
The best show I've seen lately -- no question-- is onstage only until November 2 at the Cutler Majestic: Luis Bravo's FOREVER TANGO!!! We're talking 14 gorgeous Tango dancers and an 11 piece orchestra. Theater? you ask. Absolutely! I say. The Argentinian tango-- originally considered indecent, came out of the bordellos of Buenos Aires in [...]
It's a jungle out there! Two powerful productions take us for a walk on the wild side-- of politics, and a child's imagination! THE JUNGLE BOOK the Huntington Theatre Company's season opener is based on Rudyard Kipling's stories by way of Walt Disney's animated musical of a boy who can talk to the animals! Tony [...]
The north shore is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC! Don't waste a moment and see if you can snag a ticket for the last performances this weekend (they've added an extra show Sunday) of North Shore Music Theatre's season opener of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that solves a problem like Maria, and climbs every [...]
The Huntington Theatre Company has given us a stirring production of the first play by an African-American woman ever produced on Broadway-- 54 years ago: Lorraine Hansberry's landmark "A Raisin in the Sun." The play tells the story of the African-American Younger family living in a cramped apartment on Chicago's South side in 1959. The [...]
