Whether you are currently in a state of shock or jubilation, you can't go wrong with the following offerings which will lift you up no matter your state of mind. Greater Boston Stage Company has opened its 25th Anniversary season with a show well known and performed all over Europe -- but this is its [...]
We know how this ends. Somewhere out there is an iceberg with Titanic's name on it. But no matter how many times I reconnect with this historical event through movies, documentaries, exhibitions, articles--I remain compelled by this tragic tale. I had never seen the Tony Award-winning Best Musical (1997 ) TITANIC The Musical-- until now [...]
Prudence Payne is a critic on the cusp of dementia. I trembled at the premise and buckled up for PRU PAYNE a Boston Theater Critics CRITICS' PICK now having its East Coast premiere at SPEAKEASY STAGE directed by Paul Daigneault. As soon as Karen MacDonald hits the stage I know I'm in good hands—her Pru [...]
WHAT TO SEE NOW! NASSIM presented by The Huntington at the BCA CALDERWOOD through 10/27! The show is never the same twice, literally. Each night a different performer takes the stage and that performer has never before seen the script! It's a leap of faith for all involved, performer and audience. Nassim has been performed [...]
You're in luck-- URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL the season opener at LYRIC STAGE BOSTON is a Boston Theater Critics Association CRITIC's PICK which means-- you just have to go! That stinky title announces the cesspool of corruption in a city where folks have been forced to pay to pee! It seems that a 20-year drought [...]
THE HUNTINGTON just opened its season with what may be the dazzling Tom Stoppard's last play "LEOPOLDSTADT." I saw it on Broadway where it won the TONY Award for Best Play, and thought it not substantial enough to bear the weight of the playwright's experience at its core. The Huntington's production directed by Carey Perloff [...]
A long drive up to Gloucester Stage Company on a sunny Sunday was capped off by a smart, sweet piece of theater: THE HOMBRES by Tony Meneses, a co-presentation by Gloucester Stage and Teatro Chelsea. The play which closes out Gloucester's 45th season is a regional premiere as part of National Hispanic Heritage month. While not [...]
The fall theater season is back up and running! I had high hopes for American Repertory Theater's season opener Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"! Alas, this most tragic and romantic tale of young lovers caught in the crossfire of their feuding families left me wanting-- but not for lack of trying. The set was beautiful and [...]
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a rarity -- a multidimensional musical that speaks to this moment with all of the nuances of a real life lived, and at the heart of it a thrilling, complex, masterful performance by Kristin Chenoweth. That this world premiere musical is also now debuting in our own backyard at Boston's [...]
THE WINTER'S TALE is the ironic summer offering of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's FREE Shakespeare on Boston common. It has certainly been a season of surprises all around, and this play for me is one of them. I had never seen nor read it, had no idea where it was going or how it would get [...]
