There's SO much to see out there right now! Here are 4 excellent productions, and this week I talked about them on THE CULTURE SHOW (airing daily at 2pm on GBH 89.7) with host JARED BOWEN! To hear our conversation, click HERE and scroll to April 15, 2025. The segment begins at 34:20 seconds in! [...]
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITE TO A SPECIAL FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF AMAZON PRIME'S ORIGINAL SERIES "ETOILE." Tuesday, April 22nd, 7:00PM, Alamo Drafthouse Theater, 60 Seaport Blvd in Boston Enjoy complimentary champagne and get a sneak peek of the first two episodes of this spectacular streaming series before it becomes available to the public on April 24th! [...]
This is the closing-- or almost closing weekend for three shows now on stage in town so I thought I'd give you a quick last minute guide in case you are deciding to catch one of the below: IT'S A MOTHER F**KING PLEASURE to recommend this hip, hot satirical take down of identity politics and [...]
More than 140 nominations in over two dozen categories of outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions and 5 awards for visiting productions were announced today by the Boston Theater Critics Association (of which I am proud to be president!) for The 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on [...]
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is an old story with eternal clout. This rapturous production now onstage at THE HUNTINGTON is a rollicking exploration of love and reason, gender and power, politics and class. Yes, it was written in 1732 by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux and has a marvelous cast but it's the rip-roaring [...]
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF Warner Bros. Pictures Release: A MINECRAFT MOVIE Screening info: WHEN: Sunday, March 30th at 11:00 AM WHERE: Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place (24 Patriot Pl, Foxborough, MA 02035) Terms and conditions: You can sign up to redeem 2 FREE passes per person using the link below. Please note that [...]
You are cordially invited to attend a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of SONY CLASSICS release THE PENGUIN LESSONS! WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday, 3/25 at 7 PM at AMC Boston Common. TRAILER: HERE RSVP for PASSES HERE Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting [...]
SPRING has sprung with a number of delightful, moving, first rate productions now in bloom on Boston stages! Here's my take on two of them, both of which speak to the moment we are in: the indispensability of LOVE and COMPASSION and the tragic consequences when they are missing. A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE [...]
SO much theater and I've seen most of it! Here's my take on three running through MARCH 16! I loved LYRIC STAGE COMPANY's production of ART by Yasmina Reza starring a marvelous troika of veteran Boston stars who know just how to massage this three-way friendship into a roiling dramedy triggered by a piece of [...]
The Oscars Sunday night March 2 were masterfully handled by Brookline's own Conan O'Brien whose intelligence, sense of the absurd, and self-deprecating charm carried us through the wild and wacky tonal shifts of a long evening. He sang and danced and cracked us up, managed a heartfelt tribute to L.A. firefighters, and a straight up, [...]
