The Lyric Stage Company has a hit on its hands: SUPERIOR DONUTS! Director Spiro Veloudos said to me at intermission, "If you choose the right cast, your work is done-- just step aside and let them do what they do." Well this cast gets it done-- they make the donuts-- and how. The masterful ensemble [...]
By now you've probably heard that PETER PAN has been flying around City Hall Plaza since October. No--this isn't some kind of wisecrack. It's simply true--and it's a unique theatrical production of J.M. Barrie's little boy who wouldn't grow up. I saw it awhile ago-- and some of it is quite thrilling-- and some of [...]
Planning the weekend? Don't rule out LA CAGE AUX FOLLES now playing at Boston's Shubert Theatre until December 18!! Even though star George Hamilton cannot sing, dance, or act, the man generates such debonair goodwill, I just wanted to be in his company. I saw the show last week, and the rest of the cast [...]
Kathleen Turner has opened her national tour of HIGH at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre (December 6-11)! Just in time for the holidays, HIGH is your basic homosexual, drug-dealing prostitute meets foul-mouthed, recovering alcoholic nun story. Evan Jonigkeit plays 19 year old Cody Randall-- dealer/ addict-- who likes to get high, and Turner is the hard-core [...]
Tony Williams with the donations of shoes and two characters who need them. Boston, MA December 8, 2011 For a story even the Grinch would love, read on! When Keds executives heard that the Urban Nutcracker, which uses its sneakers for certain characters in its holiday show, had lost all of its shoes in a [...]
More FREE tickets!! I have just met the lead in Fiddlehead Theatre's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE opening this Friday night!--Michael S. Dunavant! He's offering 2 COMP TICKETS for opening night! Friday December 9 8 PM Fiddlehead Theatre 619 High Street Dedham, MA. 02026 RSVP: Click on "CONTACT ME" on [...]
"Dominoes, et dominoes, et dominoes Popsies historical axle-grease, exacts bubbly fins crock lavender..." Say what? It's a line from Tom Stoppard's DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH. Familiar plays-- but definitely strange in the hands of Tom Stoppard, who's reinterpreted them by inventing a new language! WHISTLER IN THE DARK THEATRE has mounted a spare, sure-handed production [...]
A revolutionary production of Ibsen's classic A DOLL'S HOUSE featuring really tall women and really small men--40-53 inches high to be exact!--recently had its Boston premiere at ARTS EMERSON's Cutler Majestic. MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE took the absurdity and inequity of women who are treated as dolls in a society of "small" men--and made it the [...]
BOSTON BALLET’S THE NUTCRACKER TAKES THE STAGE FOR ONE FINAL SEASON WITH CURRENT SETS AND COSTUMES New England’s Favorite Tradition Presented November 25 – December 31, 2011 Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker Returns in 2012 with New Sets and Costumes BOSTON, MA – Monday, November 7 – Boston Ballet presents Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker, voted in [...]
Here are a few extra "JoyceChoices" for the weekend NOVEMBER 4-5-6 & Monday NOV 7!(Clooney's latest!) FRIDAY (11/4) Don't miss internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, improviser and Steinway Artist DONAL FOX in a rare solo piano concert at the Regattabar Jazz Club Friday, November 4 for two shows 7:30PM and 10:00PM. Come hear Donal make Steinway's [...]
