MUST DO this weekend: Head on up to Gloucester Stage and treat yourself to their 37th season opener, Tony Award-winner Peter Shaffer's slight but delicious LETTICE AND LOVAGE about two women who forge a friendship as they mount an attack on the modern world with their love of role-playing and romance! This amusing bauble of a play is polished to perfection by a dazzling [...]
What can you say about a man named Weiner who's famous for exposing his penis to the world? All the jokes have been made, but this film is no joke. It's a real close up, unadorned look at the man behind the appendage, with the caveat that I and you as watchers are all part of his [...]
The view from the wings of the Shubert Theatre was magical... there was the beautiful actress Jennifer Ellis in a satin gown under a silvery light with an even more silvery soprano singing solo from her winning performance in The Lyric Stage Company's marvelous production of MY FAIR LADY. There was the sultry McCaela Donovan holding us spellbound [...]
Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler's body is her "pre-occupation and her occupation," the focus of her body of work beginning with THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and most recently her 2013 memoir turned stage adaptation now having its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater. IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD is not for the faint of [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Warner Brothers' upcoming release “ME BEFORE YOU” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit https://www.wbtickets.com/QkkHT97555 Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 7:00PM in BOSTON (Theater will be named on your ticket) “ME BEFORE YOU” Running Time: 104 minutes Rated: “PG-13” Opening Date: June 3, 2016 [...]
MONEY MONSTER the new film directed by Jodie Foster starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts--is as phony as a three dollar bill. It's a cornball, ham-fisted, heapin' helpin' of preposterousity--and though that's not a real word, it is nonetheless a perfect descriptor for this "not a real movie." Within five minutes I was getting a whiff of the cheesiness, sniffing out [...]
I had a catch in my throat from the first song. DOGFIGHT was instantly, emotionally stirring, from its poignant opening ballad, wise book, smart, rousing choreography, perfect cast and chemistry-- to its tender, heartbreaking conclusion. The Award-winning Off-Broadway musical having its Boston professional premiere at SpeakEasy Stage is a deeply moving coming of age tale with two young lovers at the heart of a world [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Columbia Pictures’ upcoming release “THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit: https://www.sonyscreenings.com/FIMMg46773 Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 10:00AM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) ”THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE” Running Time: 95 Minutes Rated: “PG” Opening Date: May [...]
MOTHER'S DAY is overflowing with the milk of human diversity-- of the Hollywood kind. It's chock full of big names and plot lines, kids, parents, grandparents, adoptees looking for their mothers, mothers looking for their cast-offspring, couples married, co-habiting, divorced and widowed, gay, straight, mixed raced, and one British accent. Jennifer Aniston is Sandy, who first appears wrapped in a towel, her skin glowing [...]
What could be more fun than watching a bunch of fops, gossips, degenerates and cheats tattling and prattling in powdered wigs, slicing and dicing anyone and everyone in their horrid little circle? Well not much, as this devilishly delightful Actors' Shakespeare Project production of "School For Scandal," Richard Brinsley Sheridan's still relevant 18th century satire on the scandalmongering among us, [...]
