'Tis the season to be jolly! From the sacred to the profane, you'll find it all onstage now--with MUSIC! Hang onto your hot cocoa and here we go. Head on up to Stoneham to see one of the best productions ever mounted by Greater Boston Stage Company: LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical! It's Louisa [...]
As superheroes dominate big screens around the world, a bawdy bunch of bionic thespians have taken the stage over at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts! Meet THE EBONIC WOMAN a new musical comic book farce loaded with social commentary and satiric sass from Ryan Landry and his unstoppable GOLD DUST ORPHANS. This is [...]
Here are four recommendations, the best, the bawdiest, most delightful, and thoroughly musical offerings onstage now: beginning with The Huntington's MAN IN THE RING which is simply a masterpiece and THE BEST PRODUCTION ONSTAGE NOW. This is a profoundly moving, complex, brilliantly performed and conceived bio-drama about fighter Emile Griffiths here played by two actors, [...]
I've been running all over town to catch what's onstage and there's a stockpile of fantastic shows waiting to be seen--beginning with what I just saw at the Ramrod Center for The Performing Arts! I nearly laughed myself into insanity at what Ryan Landry and his GOLD DUST ORPHANS have rustled up: BROKELAHOMO! It's "Brokeback [...]
Bob Mussett, Gene Dante, Diego Buscaglia. Mikey DiLoreto; Damon Singletary, Victor Shopov, Ryan Landry, and Brooks Reeves. Photo by Richard Hall/Silverline Images When it first opened off-Broadway in 1968, THE BOYS IN THE BAND must have been shocking with its scenes of gay men kissing and its subject matter so baldly exposed. Almost 50 years [...]
photo: by Matt West From left, Boston Theater Critics Association president Joyce Kulhawik, Lea DeLaria and Ryan Landry on the red carpet at the Elliot Norton Awards. The dust has settled on the 33rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards presented by the Boston Theater Critics Association, [...]
This Monday May 11, 7 PM you're all invited to the event I've been working on ALL YEAR -- THE NORTIES, more formally known as THE ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS onstage at THE SHUBERT THEATRE. (BUY TICKETS HERE!) It's the night The Boston Theater Critics Association passes out awards to our fabulous theater community, then passes out at a [...]
Remember that famous number from GYPSY where three strippers advise a novice on how to take it all off, "You Gotta Get a Gimmick"? Well imagine now that it's three men (?) in burqas peeking through veiled flaps over heavily mascara-ed eyes singing "You Gotta Get a Burqa"! This is the kind of irreverence Ryan Landry and his Gold [...]
THE NORTIE NOMS are out! The 33rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards, "The Norties," presented by the Boston Theater Critics Association are Boston's version of the Tonys-- only ours are way cooler. The Norties honor the outstanding achievements of the Boston theater community and we want EVERYONE to buy a ticket and party with us on the big night this May! WGBH's Jared Bowen [...]
Hey look. I have not blasphemed. I am just quoting the title of the latest holiday offering now onstage at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts, home to Ryan Landry and those rascally Gold Dust Orphans! And I must say, the title alone had me in hysterics. As a lapsed and relapsed Catholic who still retains more than [...]
