The world premiere musical FINDING NEVERLAND now playing at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge is part magic and mostly schlock-- which might be a recipe for a Broadway smash (It's headed there in March 2015) but left me hungry for the production I believe it can be. The show is based on the 2004 [...]
I hate to say this-- but Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common TWELFTH NIGHT-- was a drag. And I'm not referring to the Bard's familiar penchant for having girls dress like boys-- which Viola does here, becoming a dead ringer for her twin brother Sebastian, which of course leads to all manner [...]
ASTRO BOY & THE GOD OF COMICS Company One's latest production- is fast and fun, but also deeply, darkly moving, resonating far beyond the thin black comic book lines materializing before us onstage. Leave it to this cutting edge company to produce the New England premiere of playwright/director Natsu Onoda Power's extraordinary work incorporating actors, [...]
I have a special invitation for you--Please join me in Worcester for this historic event!! I have been working in the arts community for over thirty years. I have seen it all, from world premieres in downtown Boston, to arts events on stages and galleries across the Berkshires and beyond-- from Broadway to the Oscars! [...]
Here's what's onstage this summer-- beginning with TWO productions right now in Boston-- and 11 MORE farther out, courtesy of my colleague ED SIEGEL at THE ARTERY! SMART PEOPLE-- a smashing world premiere production now at the Huntington Theatre Company's Second Stage (Calderwood Pavilion) is the latest from the brilliant Lydia R. Diamond. You may [...]
It's my favorite kind of 3D--gorgeous bodies, warm, alive, and right in front of me, beautifully lit, stunningly costumed, performing the most extraordinary stunts, all choreographed to embody the myths that animate our lives-- such is CIRQUE DU SOLEIL's latest show, AMALUNA, which just blew into Boston. AMALUNA is written and directed by Harvard's American [...]
From the minute you enter the American Repertory Theater mainstage in Cambridge, MA. there's a tingle in the air, like the one that Shakespeare's Prospero must have felt when years before, exiled by his usurping brother, he and his infant daughter Miranda washed up shipwrecked on the shores of a magical island. This production of [...]
Musicals take the stage in Boston this spring--and it's hit and miss. HIT: INTO THE WOODS, Stephen Sondheim's brilliant, bittersweet musical romp through the thicket of life, and Lyric Stage Company of Boston has mounted a marvelous production directed by Spiro Veloudos which has just been extended through June 29th! We're talking ingenious sets (including [...]
Boston Theater Critics Association members with Olympia Dukakis and Paul Daigneault Olympia Dukakis Paul Daigneault It was a fabulous night!! THE MAYOR Marty Walsh spoke about his commitment to Boston as an ARTS town; OSCAR-WINNER Olympia Dukakis was honored, and her cousin and former GOVERNOR Mike Dukakis paid [...]
To see OR not to see? That is the question I will answer about what's onstage around town right now. To see: AS YOU LIKE IT presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project at the Springstep Building in Medford! Full disclosure: my husband the brilliant architect Andrew Cohen of ACTWO Architects designed the building, and it has [...]
