Cyberspace is blowing up as the artists among us create virtual offerings for "Entertainment in the time of pandemic." Here's an uplifting lineup: Check out Meryl Streep, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald and many more to celebrate Sondheim in Concert! This musical special celebrates Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. Hosted by Raul Esparza, the show [...]
The 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards!! ON WITH THE SHOW—VIRTUALLY! Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence Awarded Posthumously to Johnny Lee Davenport ***Virtual Ceremony Set For Monday, May 11, 2020 at 7 pm *** Two dozen nominations of outstanding actors, directors, designers [...]
The 2020 BOSTON POPS have been forced to cancel by Covid-19. Not since 1890 has the BOSTON POPS cancelled a season, the second time in its 135 year history! The coronavirus pandemic has pre-empted a particularly notable season for Keith Lockhart: his 25th Anniversary as Pops conductor. Below is a message from the maestro himself: [...]
Am hunkered down with lists of things to do that I just can't make myself DO. Cleaning...organizing (too listless). Reading (glued to online and TV coronavirus updates). Writing. OK. The next few weeks are going to be rough so "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Here are some tips to help [...]
Like everyone, I've been re-inventing my life virtually and on the lookout for things to circulate on social to help and entertain and spice things up and make us laugh. But I also need to keep moving, and I hate, repeat HATE to exercise. However, I love to dance. THIS VIDEO got me out of [...]
The show must go on-- NEXT SEASON. So looking ahead to COVID-19 being behind us, Broadway In Boston has unveiled the upcoming 2020-2021 Lexus Broadway Season. Nine theatrical productions will take center stage at the Citizens Bank Opera House and the Emerson Colonial Theatre, an Ambassador Theatre Group venue, in the upcoming Season. The Citizens [...]
THE ITALIANS HAVE IT RIGHT! Despite their hardship, they are connecting through their isolation by singing from their balconies in a remarkable show of spirit and resilience during this global catastrophe. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad collective in its 20th Anniversary season is also continuing to connect us through music. Silkroad's merry band of global [...]
This week is like nothing I've ever in my lifetime experienced. Along with everyone, I have been juggling, re-arranging, shifting everything I am involved in to the virtual world while the arts and cultural world from Broadway to Boston and beyond shuts down. But there is one last show which I've seen that has just [...]
No kidding-- THE CHILDREN is among the best plays and productions I've ever seen in Boston. In the shadow of a looming pandemic, Lucy Kirkwood's acutely timely Tony-nominated play is now onstage in a masterful production at SpeakEasy Stage. It is a divinely-acted, eerily relevant work that first gets under your skin, then leaves you [...]
HURRY! Download Passes to Free Advance Screening of "I STILL BELIEVE"! I STILL BELIEVE Tuesday March 10 at AMC Boston Common, 7:00PM To download: https://www.lionsgatescreenings.com/kvMQg25857 **Please note, seating is first come, first served and not guaranteed. Get there early! Each pass will admit two.** RELEASE DATE: Friday, March 13th, 2020 GENRE: Drama RATING: PG [...]
