(l to r) Regan (Jeanine Kane), Cordelia (Libby McKnight), King Lear (Will Lyman), Regan (Deb Martin)Photo:Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures It was a sweltering night when I saw Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common, but so absorbing and mighty was Will Lyman’s performance as KING LEAR that I hardly noticed the elements, save [...]
Don’t wait another minute to get a ticket to the funniest show in town right now: Marisa Smith’s "SAVING KITTY" presented by the Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater and starring Boston's own divine Jennifer Coolidge, star of Film (breakthrough role: "American Pie" as Stifler’s infamous mom), TV (“2 Broke Girls”), and the Broadway stage [...]
STOP THE PRESSES: NEWSIES is a smash! The voices! The dancing! The sets! If you're looking for some rip-roaring entertainment to add to the fireworks this 4rth of July week, head to Boston's Opera House for a terrific production of the Tony Award-winning Boston premiere of Disney's NEWSIES! It's an industrial strength musical about all-American pluck and ingenuity and [...]
Jacob Harris,Composer/ Elegy for the Victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing The surviving victims of the Marathon Bombing have had a last chance to speak directly to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court after he was sentenced to death. The survivors have been sentenced to life in the aftermath of losing life and limb. The son of dear family [...]
Head on up to Gloucester Stage for the last week of a touching play with a marvelous cast. SWEET AND SAD is part 2 of the four-part "The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country " cycle of plays by Tony-Award winning playwright Richard Nelson, here co-presented by Stoneham Theatre. This slice of the apple is juicier than [...]
Maria Jan Carreon in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them Company One has done it again with the most provocative, engrossing, well-acted, and directed show onstage in Boston right now: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM. It's another unwieldy but aptly titled play by hot new playwright A. Rey Pamatmat whose [...]
Tina Chilip and Zachary Booth Photo: T. Charles Erickson AFTER ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS I DO-- with whom does that not resonate? Who among us hasn't searched for forgiveness, or at least understanding after all or even one terrible thing we've done? The new play by [...]
Nancy E.Carroll and Michael Kaye. Photo by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo In MOTHERS & SONS, we never meet the son, but we meet his mother immediately, center stage, heavily defended in thick fur. Katherine (Nancy E. Carroll) has just paid a surprise visit to her deceased son's former partner Cal (Michael Kaye) and [...]
Reagle Music Theatre is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to Guys and Dolls on Friday, June 12th exclusively through JoycesChoices! Guys and Dolls runs from June 11-21 at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham (617 Lexington Street). Enter to win! Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will open its 47th consecutive summer season with the Broadway favorite,Guys and Dolls, from June 11-21, [...]
Duke of Gloucester (Allyn Burrows*), Duchess Eleanor (Marya Lowry*), King Henry (Jesse Hinson*), and Queen Margaret (Jennie Israel*) Photo Courtesy Stratton McCrady Photography 2015. I was exhausted after a long day; could I really drive into town at rush hour, and make it through a two hour 45 minute Shakespeare History play-- namely HENRY VI, PART 2? It [...]
