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About Joyce Kulhawik

Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Joyce also writes for WBUR's The ARTery and RogerEbert.com.
Sep 12 2024

THEATER: The Hombres

By |2024-09-12T23:43:45-04:00September 12th, 2024|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: The Hombres

A long drive up to Gloucester Stage Company on a sunny Sunday was capped off by a smart, sweet piece of theater: THE HOMBRES by Tony Meneses, a co-presentation by Gloucester Stage and Teatro Chelsea. The play which closes out Gloucester's 45th season is a regional premiere as part of National Hispanic Heritage month. While not [...]

Sep 09 2024

THEATER: Romeo and Juliet

By |2024-09-09T20:22:56-04:00September 9th, 2024|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: Romeo and Juliet

The fall theater season is back up and running! I had high hopes for American Repertory Theater's season opener Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"! Alas, this most tragic and romantic tale of young lovers caught in the crossfire of their feuding families left me wanting-- but not for lack of trying. The set was beautiful and [...]

Aug 07 2024

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: MY OLD ASS

By |2024-09-04T15:53:48-04:00August 7th, 2024|Comedy, Drama, Expired Free Advance Screenings, Movies|Comments Off on FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: MY OLD ASS

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF AMAZON MGM STUDIOS RELEASE "MY OLD ASS" Tuesday, August 20, 7:00PM Showcase Cinema de Lux Woburn, 25 Middlesex Canal Parkway, Woburn, MA 01801 Link to download passes: https://amazonscreenings.com/MOAJOYCESCHOICES Synopsis: In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her [...]

Aug 06 2024

THEATER: THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

By |2024-08-08T16:56:56-04:00August 6th, 2024|Musicals, Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a rarity -- a multidimensional musical that speaks to this moment with all of the nuances of a real life lived, and at the heart of it a thrilling, complex, masterful performance by Kristin Chenoweth. That this world premiere musical is also now debuting in our own backyard at Boston's [...]

Aug 01 2024

THEATER: A WINTER’S TALE

By |2024-08-02T15:34:22-04:00August 1st, 2024|Theater|Comments Off on THEATER: A WINTER’S TALE

THE WINTER'S TALE is the ironic summer offering of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's FREE Shakespeare on Boston common. It has certainly been a season of surprises all around, and this play for me is one of them.  I had never seen nor read it, had no idea where it was going or how it would get [...]

Jul 29 2024

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: IT ENDS WITH US

By |2024-08-07T18:13:37-04:00July 29th, 2024|Drama, Expired Free Advance Screenings, Movies|Comments Off on FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: IT ENDS WITH US

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF SONY PICTURES RELEASE: "IT ENDS WITH US"  Tuesday, August 6th at 7:00 PM at AMC Boston Common 19 WATCH TRAILER HERE RSVP for passes HERE! IT ENDS WITH US is in theaters August 9th Facebook | Instagram | X | Tik Tok | Website Synopsis IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel [...]

Jul 23 2024

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: SING SING

By |2024-08-07T18:15:26-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Drama, Expired Free Advance Screenings, Movies|Comments Off on FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: SING SING

You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of  A24 release SING SING  Wednesday, July 31st @ 7 PM at AMC Boston Common  WATCH TRAILER RSVP  LINK Terms and conditions: We recommend you arrive early as seating at the screening is not guaranteed and is on a first come, first served basis. SYNOPSIS: Divine G (Colman Domingo), [...]

Jul 17 2024

MUSIC/ DANCE: TANGLEWOOD/BOSTON BALLET

By |2024-07-17T22:43:06-04:00July 17th, 2024|Dance, Music, Visual ART|Comments Off on MUSIC/ DANCE: TANGLEWOOD/BOSTON BALLET

It is always magical. Since 1937, Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra when the Berkshires are alive with the sound of music! Picture 500 acres of rolling green ringed with the most beautiful hemlock hedgerows I've ever seen! Tanglewood is not only the site of a world-renowned summer music festival, [...]

Jul 09 2024

FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: KNEECAP

By |2024-07-23T23:42:11-04:00July 9th, 2024|Comedy, Drama, Expired Free Advance Screenings, Joyce's Choices, Movies, Trailers|Comments Off on FREE ADVANCE SCREENING: KNEECAP

You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING  of Sony Classics' release KNEECAP! Thursday, July 18th at 7 PM at AMC Boston Common                                   TRAILER RSVP HERE FOR PASSES: https://forms.gle/ihCxn6Donx7QFt4S9 SYNOPSIS In post-Troubles Belfast three hedonistic Irish language speakers [...]

Jul 08 2024

MOVIES: THELMA

By |2024-07-09T10:04:41-04:00July 8th, 2024|Action & Adventure, Comedy, Movies|Comments Off on MOVIES: THELMA

THELMA is one of the most enjoyable movies of the summer with much to say about how the elderly and young adults are infantilized in this coddling culture.  The plot involves one Thelma Post, a 93 year-old grandmother living on her own in L.A. when she is conned out of $10,000 by a phone scammer [...]

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