I applaud the statement issued by Boston's Praxis Stage who are about to mount a production of JULIUS CAESAR in Cambridge this summer. In fact, I laughed myself silly--though this is truly no laughing matter. Praxis called it, and I'm happy to amplify their response to the ongoing attempts to suppress freedom of expression and the crucial conversations theater provokes, especially in times of [...]
DON'T MISS the Huntington Theatre Company's "RIPCORD" which just opened at the Calderwood Pavilion and has already been extended through July 2! David Lindsay-Abaire's comedy is set in that most hilarious and freewheeling of all environments--an assisted living complex. Hang on, it involves two elderly women who find themselves roommates, but one of them can't stand the other. The sour-pussed Abby (Nancy E. Carroll) [...]
Joyce Kulhawik, Cherry Jones, Diane Paulus & Boston Theater Critics Association/Photo: Mikki Ansin If you are a theater lover/goer and were not at the HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY's BU Theater on Monday May 15, 2017, you missed the event of the local theatrical season: The 35th Anniversary Elliot Norton Awards with Guest of Honor [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
She's won two TONY AWARDS and an EMMY for her role as President Allison Taylor on "24" and this year she's our GUEST OF HONOR at Boston's version of the Tony's: The 35th Elliot Norton Awards will honor CHERRY JONES! TONY AWARD WINNER CHERRY JONES It's all happening on Monday May 15 at the Huntington Theatre Company’s [...]
Two more to see beginning with the stunning Huntington Theatre production of a play that gets to the heart of racism in these United States: Suzan-Lori Parks's revelatory Pulitzer Prize-winning "TOPDOG/UNDERDOG." Directed by Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk Award-winner Billy Porter (KINKY BOOTS, THE COLORED MUSEUM) will leave you in shock as it builds to its inevitable explosive conclusion. We are left sorting through [...]
I just saw the world premiere of FINISH LINE: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon. It runs circles around the movie "Patriot's Day" which managed to somehow reduce this global tragedy even as it ramped up the explosions and Mark Wahlberg's ubiquitous heroics. FINISH LINE has no literal explosions and makes a better point: there were no heroes, that is, no [...]
