And speaking of drag queens (I was in my last post--See: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW) the SpeakEasy Stage Company has mounted the New England Premiere of the Off-Broadway hit comedy THE DIVINE SISTER about one of my favorite subjects: nuns. I almost became one. I ate slept and drank nuns. They lived next door to [...]
Just in time for Hallowe'en-- drag queens are invading our stages! If you pop on over to OBERON (part club, part theater) on the edge of Harvard Square, you'll be caught between a rocky horror and a hard place (...if you know what I mean.) at THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW!!!! The fabulous Ryan Landry founder [...]
Now at the BCA's Plaza Black Box Theatre Zeitgeist Stage is presenting the East Coast premiere of five short plays by Tony Kushner called TINY KUSHNER. If only the plays were as succinct as that title; they're short all right, but the word count is long. Pultizer Prize winning dramatist Tony Kushner -- famed for [...]
Tina Packer's tour de force WOMEN OF WILL : THE OVERVIEW is now playing at the Central Square Theater presented by The Nora Theatre Company! "WOMEN OF WILL." is an exploration of Shakespeare's art and psyche through his female characters, from Juliet to Lear's daughters. The title itself cuts many ways (women of "Will" Shakespeare, [...]
If you want plenty to think and argue about, you MUST see the compelling COLLECTED STORIES at the NEW REP in Watertown! Bobbie Steinbach and Liz Hayes take Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright Donald Margulies' play about a famous author and her protegee, and wrap it around their little fingers. Through these very carefully calibrated performances [...]
This Saturday is your last chance to see a New England Premiere over at the SpeakEasy Stage: their excellent production of 2010 Tony nominee for best play NEXT FALL! The drama pivots on the relationship between Adam, an atheist, and Luke a practicing Christian. It's about the complexities of love and religion, the nature of [...]
THE INFERNAL COMEDY John Malkovich's two-day gig presented by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount was fraught with tension. He played a serial killer back from the dead hawking his memoirs (Just once I'd like to see him play the normal neighbor next door.) with an orchestra playing arias from Vivaldi to Weber. In the course of [...]
I woke up yesterday morning fighting off a detached retina. Of course, I didn't know it yet, but those flashing lights I noticed in my peripheral vision while I was sitting in the movie theater, wasn't the result of some idiot texting during the film (that's another blog). So I reported this phenomenon to my [...]
RUN RUN RUN to the Huntington's 30th Anniversary season opener-- a rollicking, moving, brilliantly staged, lit, costumed, and transcendently performed, just plain GLORIOUS production of CANDIDE! This was my first response, and upon further reflection-- I liked it even more!!! It's as if all of life were captured onstage in one bursting-at-the-seams bundle in Tony [...]
There will always be a few nights at the theater that I will remember my whole life, when I was swept up in something truly thrilling and sublimely beautiful. Last night was one of those nights. I sat transfixed at the A.R.T. as Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis sang us to Nirvana in the new [...]
