You have GOT to see this show: 300 PAINTINGS . Never has "bipolar disorder" or art seemed so accessible or fun! I am not being flip. This one-man show is built on the shoulders and psyche of an Australian stand up comic diagnosed with bipolar disorder who's made his way through the USA, Europe, the [...]
HAMILTON is back onstage presented by Broadway in Boston at Citizens Opera House-- and long may it wave. Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterwork whose book, music, and lyrics rapped us through the Revolutionary War with its multiracial, multi-ethnic cast, is the hip hop musical heard round the world. This stunning production is more potent, more relevant, and [...]
Am back up and running after my site crashed this week with PART IV of my take on shows now open this fall onstage in greater Boston-- again, arranged in order of how long they will run so you can plan your theater-going schedule! Dominic Carter as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kiera Prusmack [...]
Here's PART III of my take on the rush of fall theater season openers in and around Boston, in order of how long they are open to help you plan! Photo: Ken Yotsukura If you thought your wedding was hard to plan-- this one's a load. THE CEREMONY is a world premiere and [...]
Here's part II of my theater extravaganza, my take on 2 more productions which opened in the last two weeks! SILENT SKY now onstage and presented by Central Square Theater is another in a revelatory series of plays uncovering the little known and hardly dramatized stories of women pioneers in science. SILENT SKY is set [...]
Stand back-- there's a whole lotta critiquing going on. This is one of the busiest fall theater seasons ever! I've just come off of nine shows opening on stages in and around Boston, with more on the immediate horizon. Here's my take on four of them in order of how soon they will close-- so [...]
It's one of the best movies of the summer, a wild mix of thrilling and thoughtful, dark but sweet, featuring a rangy, charismatic performance by Austin Butler and a Siberian Forest cat named Bud (Tonic) whom filmmaker Darren Aronofsky describes as brilliant--from hitting his marks to acting injured! Tonic is in stellar company: Zoë Kravitz, [...]
This is the 29th summer of Commonwealth Shakespeare's Company's FREE production of Shakespeare on Boston Common and it is, indeed, AS YOU LIKE IT. I like it too! Directed by CSC's Artistic Director Steven Maler, this is an exuberant, out of the box, big as all outdoors production of one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies. [...]
SUPERMAN used to be enough. On the small screen of my childhood, there was George Reeves as the stolid man of steel. Decades later on the big screen, Christopher Reeve in the role stole our hearts--and no one has done it since. Besides their ironically similar names, Reeves and Reeve had something else in common--the [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Dreamworks Animation's THE BAD GUYS 2 Saturday, July 26th at 11:00 AM at AMC Boston Common 19. TRAILER HERE Synopsis: Everyone’s favorite felons are back, and this time, they’ve got company. In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew [...]
