It's not too late to see one of the BEST shows now onstage in Boston-- the Huntington Theatre Company's explosive, soul-searing production of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM. With this play, the Huntington completes its presentation of all ten of Wilson's epic cycle of plays, one for each decade of the [...]
Delusional "bipolar depression with manic episodes," isn't usually the stuff of musical theater, but Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book/lyrics) have set the malady to music and turned it into art, winning three Tony's and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama. NEXT TO NORMAL has just made its Boston premiere at the SpeakEasy [...]
I haven't been able to get these glorious songs by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg out of my head, since seeing the new 25th Anniversary Production of LES MISERABLES at the Boston Opera House last week. The show remains a pulverizing extravaganza of story, music, and emotion, as powerful as the first time I saw [...]
BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE LEGENDARY SONG & DANCE MAN TOMMY TUNE RECIPIENT OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS SET FOR MAY 21 AT PARAMOUNT CENTER Tickets on sale March 15 at 10am. The Boston Theater Critics Association is pleased to announce legendary song and dance man TOMMY TUNE will [...]
It pains me to have to say this-- which is why I've probably put it off-- but the A.R.T.s latest production and world premiere-- is the biggest disappointment of the season: WILD SWANS is a real turkey. There's a good chance you were one of the more than 13 million who read Jung Chang's 1991 [...]
I am so EXCITED!! The hottest show on Broadway, the winner of nine Tony awards including Best Musical-- THE BOOK OF MORMON-- is headed to Boston as part of the upcoming 2012-2013 Lexus Broadway Season presented by Broadway in Boston! Plus: the winner of five Tony awards including Best Play WAR HORSE, Tony award-winning Best [...]
I could barely keep from screaming when I saw it: PHOTOGRAPH 51--an eye-opening play about yet ANOTHER unsung woman's achievement: Rosalind Franklin, a scientist duped out of the NOBEL prize by Watson and Crick of double helix fame. I will now forever think of them as double-crossers. The play by Anna Ziegler tells the [...]
TIME STANDS STILL -- in a photograph-- but what is its value, and its cost? These are the questions a photojournalist must ask herself in one of the smartest new Broadway plays now onstage in Boston at The Lyric Stage Company: TIME STANDS STILL by Donald Margulies. Under Scott Edmiston's astute direction, this expert ensemble [...]
We've all been there-- those uncomfortable little family dinners, roiling with resentments and old hurts, that turn testy between courses. Welcome to Zeitgeist Stage Company's accomplished production of TIME OF MY LIFE. As we enter the theater, it's like walking into a restaurant and we're spectators-- some of us at neighboring tables-- observing a cacophonous [...]
This Wednesday comes along once every 4 years: February 29th of course!! An extra day-- deserves an EXTRA special something! Here are two LEAP DAY DEALS for you: DEAL #1: February 29th is SADIE HAWKINS DAY!!! So why not ask him to dinner?--UPSTAIRS ON THE SQUARE! I pass along this invitation from the lady owners [...]
