WE DID IT-- VIRTUALLY!! WATCH THE SHOW HERE ! MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW: Awards were announced for more than two dozen outstanding actors, directors, designers, ensembles and productions by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at The 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no live ceremony was held; instead, the awardees were [...]
LISTEN, as I said, I've been busier than EVAH! As president of the Boston Theater Critics Association I usually emcee THE ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS as all of us on the BTCA present the ENA awards at a big, live, in-person ceremony at a downtown theater. Well, this year-- that wasn't happening. But there was NO [...]
This pandemic has got me firing on all cyber cylinders! I have never been busier and will catch you up over the next few days on my various virtual outings. Among them, this podcast interview conducted by my pal and radio diva Candy O'Terry, best known as the soft and sultry voice of MAGIC 106! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Families are in for some great theater now! If you've never seen FIDDLER ON THE ROOF or if you've seen it a hundred times-- see it again presented by Broadway in Boston at the Colonial Theatre through March 8! This Tony Award-winning musical theater classic is-- miracle of miracles--foolproof. Those beautiful, instantly memorable and beloved [...]
