HURRY! WIN complimentary passes to Fathom Events: THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2016-17 SERIES – DER ROSENKAVALIER To enter-to-win please click on the link below and fill out the required information. https://tinyurl.com/hrfdgfk Winners will receive their passes via email. Passes will be valid at the specified locations and guarantee you a seat up until 10 [...]
WEEKEND ADVENTURE!! FIRST--Head to the Central Square Theater in Central Square Cambridge this weekend and get closer to the Middle East. SECOND--Buy a ticket to PARADISE --and you will find it. This two-act play by Laura Maria Censabella and presented by Underground Railway Theater is about a young muslim-American teenager from the Bronx with a gift [...]
Most of the productions I'll review over the next few days will end this weekend MAY 7--See them before they close! Beginning with: BECKETT IN BRIEF: A stunning troika of Beckett plays brought to luminous life by an equally stunning trinity of actors led by the incandescent Will Lyman who appears in each. Lyman's extraordinary elegance, timing, [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for Warner Brothers’ release “KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.wbtickets.com/ipkxF68880 Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD” Running Time: 126-minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an IFC release “CHUCK”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://tinyurl.com/chuck617 Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 7:00 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “CHUCK” Running Time: 101-minutes Rated: “R” Opening Date: May 12, 2017 Synopsis: He was the pride [...]
In marathon season, after a marathon of coverage including the fictionalized film "Patriots Day" and the documentary play "Finish Line," the latest entry in the reportage of Boston's beloved race comes in first with the last word. My review here reprinted from The ARTery. "Boston" is the first feature length documentary film on [...]
Diane Paulus 2017 Elliot Norton Prize Winner THIS JUST IN! The Boston Theater Critics Association has announced the 35th Anniversary Elliot Norton Awards nominations for outstanding work by Boston area actors, directors, designers, writers! Leading the pack are the Huntington Theatre Company and SpeakEasy Stage Company with 9 nominations each in a field of [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an STX Entertainment release "THEIR FINEST." For the chance to win two tickets please visit: https://stxtickets.com/dNzIb47925 Wednesday, April 12th at 7:30PM at AMC Boston Common. "THEIR FINEST" Running Time: 1 hour 57 minutes Rating: R Opening Date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, and Billy Nighy Director: [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an Open Road Films release “THE PROMISE”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.gofobo.com/QiaWs72485 Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 7:30 PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “THE PROMISE” Running Time: 132-minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening Date: April 21, 2017 Cast: OSCAR [...]
I recently took part in Women Writer's week at RogerEbert.com and revisited BABY BOOM starring Diane Keaton--30 years later. I was thrilled to join all of the site's women reviewers highlighted that week, and once again became acutely aware of how few women's critical voices are heard in the world. The field of movie and theater criticism remains, like so many fields, [...]
