The news was nothing short of devastating to me. I cannot tell you HOW MUCH I adored PRINCE. Everything about him. For me, HE was the consummate artist/entertainer/performer/musician. There was NO ONE I would rather see onstage than PRINCE. I was just saying this last week in a conversation about who I'd pay to see. [...]
I was tearing up within minutes of Obehi Janice being onstage, hearing her tell the story of a strange and lonely uncle who "hated" himself to sleep with the words, "I'm a piece of shit." Suddenly, I'm welling up. Who hasn't felt this way? But this show sets out to be a healing balm and the formula is familiar: misery loves [...]
OH GOD--A man walks into a psychologist's office. He needs to talk and she's the one. Oh...and he's God. As in the deity. As in The Word--first, last, and always. Presented by Israeli Stage and written by the late Anat Gov in a season of all female playwrights, "Oh God" cracks open this borderline blasphemous exclamation and releases [...]
You are cordially invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for an Open Roads’ release set to open in theaters on 4/29/2016 “MOTHER’S DAY” Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 7:00PM in Boston. (Theater will be named on your ticket.) Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 118 Minutes Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Timothy [...]
Drama Critic Elliot Norton It's "NORTIE" time! The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) of which I am president is pleased to announce its nominations for the 34th Annual Elliot Norton Awards! For one night--Monday May 23, 2016, on one stage--Boston's Citi Shubert Theatre, the greater Boston theater community will celebrate in the name of the late great [...]
I adore Melissa McCarthy, her perfect timing, her nuanced--yes nuanced--characters, her improvisational flair. I find just about everything she does hysterically funny even when she's appearing in a movie that demeans her comedic gifts. Such is the case in the number one movie at the box office this week: THE BOSS which finds McCarthy compromised by the adolescent boy sensibilities driving this crude vehicle. [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Lionsgate upcoming release “CRIMINAL” For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please visit https://www.lionsgatescreenings.com/ygRYq82895 Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:00PM in BOSTON (Theater will be named on your ticket) “CRIMINAL” Running Time: 113 minutes Rated: “R” Opening Date: April 15, 2016 Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, [...]
The 34th Annual Elliot Norton Awards Ceremony is set for Monday May 23 at Boston’s Citi Shubert Theatre and will honor Award-winning actress Mary Louise Wilson! Here's her hilarious acceptance speech after receiving Broadway's 2007 Tony Award as best featured actress in a musical for her performance in "Grey Gardens": The curtain goes up at 7PM and the ceremony will feature [...]
These young musicians from Japan have arrived in Boston and have made the most beautiful music out of a catastrophe, wringing hope out of disaster through the power of art. LISTEN and WATCH. Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta - Music from Fukushima in Boston - from The Japan Society of Boston on Vimeo. The Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta, [...]
The girl is 13 years old from a small mountain village in Nepal, but we know she is about to be trafficked as a sexual slave within minutes of the opening scenes of SOLD, an arresting film based on Patricia McCormick's novel which puts the spotlight on a horrible truth hiding in plain sight: millions of children are trafficked all over the world [...]
