WIN complimentary passes to the Fathom Event: MET SUMMER ENCORE SERIES! Enter to win by e-mailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with (name of the opera event/JOYCE) in the subject line. Please send your full name and e-mail address! 5 admit 2 winners will be selected for each opera and emailed their complimentary passes. Passes will be valid at Showcase Cinemas in Lowell [...]
I have a new favorite musical and it's called MATILDA THE MUSICAL!!! This literate, darkly funny, empowering, and bizarrely inventive Tony award-winner just hit the Boston Opera House in its first national tour-- and don't you dare miss it! MATILDA THE MUSICAL is based on Roald Dahl's best-selling novel, and captures the writer's strange and shadowy sensibility, as [...]
Summer is in full swing on stages in and around Boston now including two classic musicals, and a trip on the Neverland! North Shore Music Theatre opens its season with FUNNY GIRL the 1963 musical starring Barbra Streisand who went on to win an Oscar for her performance in the 1968 film version. I mention Streisand because of [...]
The TONYS are the new OSCARS. The 70th annual awards show honoring Broadway's best (click HERE for complete winners list) proved yet again what an eloquent, big-hearted, DIVERSE, and extraordinarily talented community theater artists belong to. Every night they take the stage and entertain, illuminate and inspire live audiences heart to heart, body and soul. (click HERE for ALL the performances) This [...]
The world premiere of I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU is firing on all cylinders and requires we be MOST ALIVE as an audience to every cue-- visual and aural-- as we witness this extraordinary ensemble wrestle with life's random cruelties. It's a potent evening presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the BCA's Calderwood Pavilion [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
