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THEATER REVIEW: TIME OF MY LIFE
We’ve all been there– those uncomfortable little family dinners, roiling with resentments and old hurts, that turn testy between courses. Welcome to Zeitgeist Stage Company’s accomplished production of TIME OF MY LIFE. As we
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THEATER REVIEW: THE WIZARD OF OZ
This week, I hope you’re off to see the wizard– the wonderful WIZARD OF OZ at The Wheelock Family Theatre! If you have kids AND you have just about run out of things for
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THEATER REVIEW: DADDY LONG LEGS
I just had one of the loveliest theatrical experiences of my life up at Merrimack Rep in Lowell! You must see their utterly charming, sweetly engaging, beautifully staged and sung new musical DADDY LONG
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THEATER REVIEW: THE ADDAMS FAMILY
As the curtain came down on opening night of THE ADDAMS FAMILY musical comedy, I was suddenly reminded of Kurtz’s famous last words at the end of “Heart of Darkness”– “The Horror!The Horror!” As
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THEATER REVIEWS: Hip and Hot: “UNCLE VANYA” / “GREEN EYES”
You don’t have to go to NYC to have a hip, hot, on the edge experience at the theater! It’s all happening right here in Boston with two productions that take you there in
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THEATER REVIEW: ‘ART’
It all begins with a blank canvas. Doesn’t everything. But who could have imagined what would happen when one of three friends purchases just that– and all hell breaks loose? That’s precisely what French
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WEEKEND THEATER REVIEW: DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOT’S MACBETH
“Dominoes, et dominoes, et dominoes Popsies historical axle-grease, exacts bubbly fins crock lavender…” Say what? It’s a line from Tom Stoppard’s DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOT’S MACBETH. Familiar plays– but definitely strange in the hands of
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THEATER REVIEW: MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE
A revolutionary production of Ibsen’s classic A DOLL’S HOUSE featuring really tall women and really small men–40-53 inches high to be exact!–recently had its Boston premiere at ARTS EMERSON’s Cutler Majestic. MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE
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THEATER: CANDIDE
RUN RUN RUN to the Huntington’s 30th Anniversary season opener– a rollicking, moving, brilliantly staged, lit, costumed, and transcendently performed, just plain GLORIOUS production of CANDIDE! This was my first response, and upon further
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