Fiddlehead Theatre Company is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to the opening night of The Wiz exclusively through Joyce's Choices! THE WIZ runs from Feb. 13-22nd at the historic Strand Theatre. Enter to win! The Wiz is a modern re-telling of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum that sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz to music in a [...]
Two nights ago at Boston's Opera House MOTOWN The Musical moved everything-- except me. Sets, settings, singers, dancers, plot lines: race, romance, business, music, internal politics-- it's all up there onstage. Here come the Supremes! What's goin' on with Marvin? Who are these Jackson kids? Smokey is a daily miracle. They're dancing in the streets--Martha and her Vandellas, Gladys and her PIPS! Look out-- [...]
One can just imagine what the late Molly Ivins' reaction to the murder of French journalists by islamic terrorists bent on silencing Charlie Hebdo's brand of political satire might have been. The late Texas liberal journalist, political humorist/commentator and thorn in the side of those who would, by design or their own imbecility, stifle our [...]
BOYHOOD: Richard Linklater's extraordinary "12 years a film" feat! He directed the same cast over a dozen years and captured the ephemeral truth about one boy's childhood and growing up in a broken home. It's a "meta" experience for filmgoers who watch the actors and the characters they play, age on camera over time, while the boy played by the soulful Ellar Coltrane--expressive and [...]
There's a world premiere onstage right now at SpeakEasy Stage Company that rattled my cage; in fact, it's staged in a cage, the audience peering in from either side as NECESSARY MONSTERS took shape before us. Award- winning actor/playwright John Kuntz and award-winning director David R. Gammons along with a cast of Boston's best actors have [...]
Hey look. I have not blasphemed. I am just quoting the title of the latest holiday offering now onstage at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts, home to Ryan Landry and those rascally Gold Dust Orphans! And I must say, the title alone had me in hysterics. As a lapsed and relapsed Catholic who still retains more than [...]
You got yer ADD, yer ADHD, yer PTSD, yer OCD and now yer O.P.C. at the A.R. T.! The title stands for "Obsessive Political Correctness," a syndrome that plagues the compulsively sensitive, and finds its expression in a world premiere production by author, activist, & Tony-Award winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" Eve Ensler, who [...]
ENTER for a chance to win complimentary passes to a Fathom Event: “The Royal Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” at the Showcase Patriot Place in Foxborough. The Royal Ballet’s one-night only showing of ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, is being streamed live to theaters across the United States at 7:00pm on Tuesday, December 16. To Enter [...]
As the curtain rises, Cicely Tyson as Mother Carrie Watts sits framed in a window by moonlight, awake but dreaming of her long ago home in a little texas town called Bountiful. In the next room her fractious family sleeps-- a frustrated, striving son named Ludie (Blair Underwood) and his pretty, nagging wife Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams). Together, [...]
HAPPY DAYS are when we get to see a hugely gifted actress hold the stage almost alone, practically without moving, for two hours, and conjure up the entire universal human experience. That is EXACTLY what happened this week when Brooke Adams and her husband and co-star Tony Shalhoub appeared in Samuel Beckett's OTHER absurdist masterpiece HAPPY DAYS, presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in residence at Babson [...]
