I've seen 4 plays over the last ten days-- here's the latest: TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare's hilarious romp about a shipwreck that leaves siblings disguised and lovers mismatched, all of them adrift on a storm-tossed shore--until they find themselves and each other. Marvelously directed by Melia Bensussen with a big slip and slide of a wet set, [...]
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 [...]
I get up everyday and I think I know what's going to happen-- and then it doesn't-- and something else does. Several days ago I wandered into an art gallery out in Lincoln which happened to be near my bank-- The CLARK Gallery! It's a fabulous venue recently named BEST OF BOSTON and I was [...]
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 [...]
