This week, I hope you're off to see the wizard-- the wonderful WIZARD OF OZ at The Wheelock Family Theatre! If you have kids AND you have just about run out of things for them to do this school vacation week, ease on down the road to one of the most entertaining productions of this [...]
I just had one of the loveliest theatrical experiences of my life up at Merrimack Rep in Lowell! You must see their utterly charming, sweetly engaging, beautifully staged and sung new musical DADDY LONG LEGS. It's based on an old-fashioned epistolary novel of the same name by Jean Webster, with a premise ripe for romance. [...]
As the curtain came down on opening night of THE ADDAMS FAMILY musical comedy, I was suddenly reminded of Kurtz's famous last words at the end of "Heart of Darkness"-- "The Horror!The Horror!" As I, along with many other unfortunate theater-goers, fled the Shubert last night-- some of them at intermission--one of them called out [...]
We're all gearing up for a little rumble this weekend-- and if you're in that kinda' mood head on over to the Huntington Theatre Company for a little bloodletting. There you'll find the Tony Award-Winning comedy "GOD OF CARNAGE" which sets up a nasty little encounter between two couples who meet for the first time [...]
You have till Sunday (1/29) to see this world premiere --and you must. It's called SUGAR, and Robbie McCauley has spun an extraordinarily sweet and stirring memoir out of her grueling, life-long battle with disease: Diabetes. What? A one woman show about diabetes? That's right, and I sat there for two hours mesmerized; the story [...]
The two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway smash AMERICAN IDIOT is not a groundbreaking musical-- unless you're 16. So bring your teenagers and leave grandma home-- she'll either be bored or blow out her hearing aids. For us inter-generational types, AMERICAN IDIOT is an entertaining if not inspiring musical; after all, we've seen HAIR, TOMMY, RENT. But [...]
You don't have to go to NYC to have a hip, hot, on the edge experience at the theater! It's all happening right here in Boston with two productions that take you there in a new way: Apollinaire Theatre Company's lucid UNCLE VANYA and Company One's erotic GREEN EYES! First, head to Chelsea Square-- this [...]
Hurry!! The first JoycesChoices follower to respond with his or her full name (via "contact Joyce" on the home page) gets A PAIR OF FREE THEATER TICKETS to see "RED" at SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston! This is the best show on stage right now in town! Click here for my complete review! *****The tickets [...]
It all begins with a blank canvas. Doesn't everything. But who could have imagined what would happen when one of three friends purchases just that-- and all hell breaks loose? That's precisely what French playwright Yasmina Reza imagined in her play 'ART,' a terrifically engaging and very well-played dramedy? tragicomedy?-- now onstage at [...]
The best show onstage in Boston right now stars the dizzyingly talented Thomas Derrah as abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko in RED at the SpeakEasy Stage Company. Don't worry if you know nothing about painting; the 2010 Tony Award-winning show by John Logan and flawlessly directed by David R. Gammons is an extraordinarily [...]
