RACHEL YORK IS "INTO THE WOODS" AT THE REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE: CLICK HERE Just northeast of Broadway--about 205 miles--is a Waltham MA theatre called The Reagle Music Theatre where you can often see Broadway performers and sometimes Broadway quality productions. This is the case with Reagle's first musical of the summer Sondheim's dark and twisted [...]
Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans are at it again! It's Hitchcock's classic set on Cape Cod, where "The Birds" become THE GULLS! See it through May 30 at Machine 1254 Boylston Street Boston!Tippi Hedren eat your heart out. INFO
Tonight, May 18, acclaimed actors Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Cherry Jones joined conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra for the world premiere performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA. Written by composer Peter Boyer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens [...]
Monday night I emceed THE NORTON AWARDS at the Paramount Theatre! No. Not Ralph Kramden's sidekick. Elliot Norton, the Dean of American Theater Critics, who wrote for the Boston Herald, died at the age of 100, and in whose name we, the Boston theater critics, honor outstanding achievements in local theater every year. It's Boston's [...]
Click Here I just got word that Cirque du Soleil is headed this way--and it's sure to lay an egg. That crazy French troupe of performing artists,acrobats,and juggling contortionist illusionists with the phantasmagorical music, lighting,and costumes have invaded the insect world and will spin a diaphanous cocoon of mesmerizing entertainment before our very eyes under [...]
You have until May 30th to get trashed at the SpeakEasy Stage Company's latest production: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL! White trash has never been more entertaining! The show stars a bevy of Boston's best belters: Leigh Barret, Kerry A. Dowling, Mary Callanan, Santina Umbach (who nearly steals the show as "Pickles,") and Caitlin [...]
ROCK OF AGES is one of the new shows Broadway Across America will bring to the Colonial Theatre next season! ROCK takes us back to the 80's! HAIR will take us back to the 60's, WEST SIDE STORY and JERSEY BOYS will take us back to the 50's, while WICKED and MARY POPPINS will take [...]
I was almost decapitated on my way to the theatre tonight by one of those mechanical arms at the parking garage. But it was inside the Opera House that I actually laughed my head off. The new Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was hysterical, beginning to end, with just the right blend of shtick and [...]
Marji and I spent two days on the Great White Way last week and had a blast!!! COME FLY AWAY Twyla Tharp choreographs Frank Sinatra, again. This time it's all over the stage with a 17-piece big band and a vocalist. She was unnecessary. Those dancers' bodies were freakily "musicular"-musical and muscular! The women were [...]
The funniest show in town just closed: PHANTOM OF THE OPRAH put on by Ryan Landry's wildly inventive, screamingly hilarious GOLD DUST ORPHANS. Once again I took my seat at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts (more commonly known as Machine) sipped my chardonnay, and watched open-mouthed as a divinely diva-ed troop of men [...]
