I'm raffling myself off at the Arsenal Center for the Arts!! You could be the lucky winner that joins me at a Broadway Across America show in Boston! We'll share a champagne toast at the performance, and you'll come stylin' with a new Broadway Playbill Purse and a blowout and style at SalonCapri on Newbury [...]
If you read and liked the 2003 best seller by Khaled Hosseini- you'll recognize the slavishly reproduced play: New Rep's season opener THE KITE RUNNER. Though I'm told it's faithful, the life has apparently been drained out of it. Set in 1970's Kabul Afghanistan, THE KITE RUNNER tells a tale of friendship between two boys [...]
Theater season is up and running and this week I'll give you my take--beginning with the best show on stage right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's wise and wicked-funny season opener GOOD PEOPLE! It's a Tony-nominated show that's very close to home. Pulitzer Prize-winner and South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has set his tale in [...]
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated-- and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it opened in London years ago--and wasn't impressed, though I remember loving the exhilarating 2000 Universal Pictures movie about ballet and coal [...]
Want to be superficial and delight in the moment? Then dash to the best show in town right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's season ender PRIVATE LIVES! Witness an effervescent ensemble who add extra crackle to Noel Coward's crisply witty comedy. On the surface everyone behaves beautifully, while underneath feelings are as unstable and evanescent [...]
It's marvelously entertaining, warm, funny, sweet and a bit bawdy at the same time-- and you're in luck BECAUSE: The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has extended the run of AVENUE Q for one more week- due to unprecedented ticket demand! Absolutely must close July 1!! Avenue Q is now the highest grossing production in [...]
Come to the 30th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS: MONDAY MAY 21st 7-9 PM Paramount Center, Boston!! Tony award-winning Broadway legend TOMMY TUNE will PERFORM and Receive Lifetime Achievement Award! KATE SNODGRASS will Receive Prize for Sustained Excellence! See all your favorite actors and productions honored by the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION this Monday night!! I [...]
I have never laughed so long and so hard in my life. I may never need abdominal exercises again: I just saw the most obscenely funny show in town-- MARY POPPERS now playing at MACHINE-- otherwise known as The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. It's the latest Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans [...]
YOU MUST SEE The Tony Award-winning Broadway show FELA now playing at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre!! It's a spectacularly inspiring hybrid: theater, music, dance, biography, history lesson, political rally, religious experience, and the first theatrical production I've REALLY wanted to write about in awhile. Directed and choregraphed by the great Bill T. Jones, FELA is [...]
BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR 30th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS Tommy Tune To Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Award Kate Snodgrass To Receive Annual Prize for Sustained Excellence Tickets: $30 available online: aestages.org. or call: 617-824-8000! 30TH ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARD NOMINEES: OUTSTANDING VISITING PRODUCTION Mabou Mines DollHouse (ArtsEmerson) Richard III and [...]
