Oct 16 2025

THEATER: 300 PAINTINGS!

By |2025-10-16T23:49:38-04:00October 16th, 2025|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: 300 PAINTINGS!

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 [...]

Oct 08 2025

THEATER: HAMILTON

By |2025-10-08T18:14:42-04:00October 8th, 2025|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: HAMILTON

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 [...]

Oct 05 2025

THEATER: THE MOUNTAINTOP, THE COUNTER

By |2025-10-05T10:24:42-04:00October 5th, 2025|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: THE MOUNTAINTOP, THE COUNTER

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 [...]

Oct 01 2025

THEATER: THE CEREMONY, THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, PRIMARY TRUST

By |2025-10-01T16:29:25-04:00October 1st, 2025|Theater|0 Comments

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 [...]

Sep 23 2025

THEATER: SILENT SKY, OUR TOWN

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00September 23rd, 2025|Theater|0 Comments

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 [...]

Sep 22 2025

THEATER: PASSENGERS, FEATHERBABY, RENT, MY FIRST EX-HUSBAND

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00September 22nd, 2025|Theater|0 Comments

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 [...]

Sep 05 2025

MOVIES:CAUGHT STEALING

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00September 5th, 2025|Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Movies|0 Comments

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, [...]

Aug 02 2025

THEATER: AS YOU LIKE IT

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00August 2nd, 2025|Theater|0 Comments

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. [...]

Jul 25 2025

MOVIE: SUPERMAN

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00July 25th, 2025|Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction|0 Comments

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 [...]

Jul 23 2025

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: THE BAD GUYS 2

By |2025-10-01T09:41:32-04:00July 23rd, 2025|Animation, Comedy, Movies|0 Comments

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 [...]

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