Love that frisky title: DIDO OF IDAHO! The play by Abby Rosebrock, now onstage at APOLLINAIRE THEATRE, is a mad mash-up of myth and modern romance about a latter day "Dido" named Nora, in love with her wayward "Aeneas" Michael. The classic myth culminates in his betrayal and her suicide. Rosebrock's dark comedy culminates in [...]
I was struck by how moving this production of BREAKING THE CODE-- Hugh Whitemore's 1986 play now onstage at Central Square Theater-- still is! In the hands of an excellent cast, elegantly directed by Scott Edmiston, beautifully lit and simply staged with an updated epilogue by Neil Bartlett, the play remains an acutely relevant real [...]
More than 130 nominations in over two dozen categories of outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions and five awards for visiting productions were announced today by the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA of which I am proud to be president!) for the 43rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards ceremony will be held [...]
WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL is now having its world premiere onstage at The Huntington Theatre! The title, if not suggestive of a common occurrence, must surely be an everyday impulse. This semi-uproarious comedy by Matthew Lombardo was inspired by a real life backstage/onstage drama to which Bostonians had a front row seat in the summer of [...]
I had my socks knocked off last night by SUFFS a show which hits like a thunderbolt across history re-igniting our own fraught fight for social justice! SUFFS now onstage at THE EMERSON COLONIAL THEATRE is a stirring call to action, enacted by a glorious cast who deliver the history of women's suffrage with fire [...]
I can't wait for tonight's OSCARS telecast-- earlier than usual-- 7PM on ABC or HULU with Boston's own CONAN O'BRIEN helming the show with pitch perfect acumen! But the fashion show starts on the Red carpet at 6! This year's outcomes are still pretty much up in the air with only one category in the [...]
I have been at the theater every night this week and sometimes twice a day. Here are two of the best of what I've seen and how I see it: STEREOPHONIC: A masterpiece--from concept to execution. It's what happens when you lock a 70's rock band and two engineers in a recording studio until they [...]
Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's WUTHERING HEIGHTS has sent folks into an absolute frenzy. Some Gen Z-ers have reportedly collapsed in fits of weeping at the "unexpected" (!!) death of its heroine! Hilarious. Others are affronted by all that heaving sex in the barn, on the moors, in the rain....a departure from the only [...]
Two to see -- after the storm! THE MODERATE now onstage at Central Square Theater is a tale of toxicity from within and without, mirrored by the darkest corners of the web. Ken Urban's play - A catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production--plunks us down in the middle of a multilayered crisis: internal and external, physical and spiritual, [...]
I've experienced many iterations of Louisa May Alcott's touching classic LITTLE WOMEN: The book. The movies-- ALL OF THEM. The theatrical productions. I even played Amy once in my summer day camp production when I was 10 years old, and briefly lived next door to Alcott's house in Concord! I LOVE THIS MATERIAL and was [...]
