ALERT!!! MORE really good things to see onstage in Boston! First, brush up your physics and prepare to play with Schrodinger's cat as you head over to Central Square Theater in Cambridge (Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Programs) to take in one of my favorite plays, Michael Frayn's brilliant COPENHAGEN! This is the best production of the play in recent memory, and it [...]
TWO MUSICALS now onstage in the area will leave you thoroughly entertained and kicking up your heels: CINDERELLA downtown at the Boston Opera House, and BILLY ELLIOT up at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. Grab the kids and go and you'll ALL have a good time! These are excellent productions, wonderfully staged with live orchestras and a [...]
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Yes-- MORE THEATER! The season is in full swing and I just saw THE MOST WILDLY INSPIRING theatrical undertaking thus far this season presented by ARTS EMERSON: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME. In case you forgot, he's the legendary Irish explorer who crossed Antarctica between 1914-1917 and barely made it back alive after the ice ate his boat, and the crew ate the dogs. That Ernest Shackleton. And yes, it's [...]
Bob Mussett, Gene Dante, Diego Buscaglia. Mikey DiLoreto; Damon Singletary, Victor Shopov, Ryan Landry, and Brooks Reeves. Photo by Richard Hall/Silverline Images When it first opened off-Broadway in 1968, THE BOYS IN THE BAND must have been shocking with its scenes of gay men kissing and its subject matter so baldly exposed. Almost 50 years [...]
© T Charles Erickson Photography The song was SEND IN THE CLOWNS and when I first heard it in 1973, the year Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC won the Tony--I was never the same. I was absolutely stricken by its painfully exquisite, wryly mournful melody and lyrics, somewhere between a dream of romance and the irony of missed chances. Huntington [...]
"APPROPRIATE" is a ghost story that has "appropriated" the familiar tropes of familial dysfunction and reveals some very "inappropriate" secrets that crack open a white southern family as they "unpack" the dark contents of their estate after dad has died. It's an adventurous season opener for SpeakEasy Stage Company, written by hot young Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins who has [...]
Photo by Andrew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures. Take a deep breath and get ready for the season opener at the New Repertory Theatre: BROKEN GLASS. It's a potent dose of Arthur Miller, 1994, and a play that has never been performed in the Boston area before. It's set in 1938 and in Germany [...]
I've grown accustomed to seeing MY FAIR LADY. With each viewing I have been more or less delighted, entertained, and amused by this classic, onstage and onscreen. But never did I expect to be newly aroused by the characters, or for the first time find Henry Higgins of "romantic" interest, let alone care about the socio-economic struggle underpinning this tale about a linguistics professor [...]
Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and WAITRESS the world premiere, Broadway-bound musical composed by Grammy-nominated artist Sara Bareilles and directed by the A.R.T.'s Tony award-winning artistic director Diane Paulus. Start [...]
