It has stayed with me all week: ZEITGEIST Stage Company's production of LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! A line of men in white tulle; they are performing "Swan Lake" in drag. It's a scream--and heartrending. They are like angels appearing and disappearing, AIDS waiting in the wings, hovering over their lives, in the shadows of one summer [...]
You MUST see Company One's entertaining and enlightening HOW WE GOT ON! This is a jubilant show directed by Summer L. Williams that not only made me understand rap in a new way-- but made me FEEL it! This show captures the heart, mind, and soul of the art form, and channels the here and [...]
Looking for culture in the great outdoors? Look no further than two+ hours west of Boston and my culture-crammed itinerary over the 4rth of July weekend. I had a blast in the Berkshires with another culture loving couple beginning with the opening night gala and festivities at TANGLEWOOD, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. [...]
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 enter the theater, it's like walking into a restaurant and we're spectators-- some of us at neighboring tables-- observing a cacophonous [...]
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 them to do this school vacation week, ease on down the road to one of the most entertaining productions of this [...]
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 LEGS. It's based on an old-fashioned epistolary novel of the same name by Jean Webster, with a premise ripe for romance. [...]
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 I, along with many other unfortunate theater-goers, fled the Shubert last night-- some of them at intermission--one of them called out [...]
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 a new way: Apollinaire Theatre Company's lucid UNCLE VANYA and Company One's erotic GREEN EYES! First, head to Chelsea Square-- this [...]
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 playwright Yasmina Reza imagined in her play 'ART,' a terrifically engaging and very well-played dramedy? tragicomedy?-- now onstage at [...]
"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 Tom Stoppard, who's reinterpreted them by inventing a new language! WHISTLER IN THE DARK THEATRE has mounted a spare, sure-handed production [...]
