Head on up to Gloucester Stage for the last week of a touching play with a marvelous cast. SWEET AND SAD is part 2 of the four-part "The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country " cycle of plays by Tony-Award winning playwright Richard Nelson, here co-presented by Stoneham Theatre. This slice of the apple is juicier than [...]
Maria Jan Carreon in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them Company One has done it again with the most provocative, engrossing, well-acted, and directed show onstage in Boston right now: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM. It's another unwieldy but aptly titled play by hot new playwright A. Rey Pamatmat whose [...]
Here are two movies to lighten up a summer day-- ALOHA boasts a first rate cast BRADLEY COOPER, EMMA STONE, and RACHEL McADAMS in an offbeat Hawaiian love triangle written/directed by the quirky Cameron Crowe. At his best he gave us JERRY MAGUIRE and ALMOST FAMOUS and at his worst gave us ZOO. ALOHA falls somewhere [...]
Tina Chilip and Zachary Booth Photo: T. Charles Erickson AFTER ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS I DO-- with whom does that not resonate? Who among us hasn't searched for forgiveness, or at least understanding after all or even one terrible thing we've done? The new play by [...]
Nancy E.Carroll and Michael Kaye. Photo by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo In MOTHERS & SONS, we never meet the son, but we meet his mother immediately, center stage, heavily defended in thick fur. Katherine (Nancy E. Carroll) has just paid a surprise visit to her deceased son's former partner Cal (Michael Kaye) and [...]
Reagle Music Theatre is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to Guys and Dolls on Friday, June 12th exclusively through JoycesChoices! Guys and Dolls runs from June 11-21 at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham (617 Lexington Street). Enter to win! Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will open its 47th consecutive summer season with the Broadway favorite,Guys and Dolls, from June 11-21, [...]
Duke of Gloucester (Allyn Burrows*), Duchess Eleanor (Marya Lowry*), King Henry (Jesse Hinson*), and Queen Margaret (Jennie Israel*) Photo Courtesy Stratton McCrady Photography 2015. I was exhausted after a long day; could I really drive into town at rush hour, and make it through a two hour 45 minute Shakespeare History play-- namely HENRY VI, PART 2? It [...]
I've had women on the brain at the movies lately, and we are out there in significant numbers this season along with the boys of summer. I happened to see two sequels MAD MAX: FURY ROAD and PITCH PERFECT 2 on the same day and fully expected to tolerate the former and enjoy the latter. Not even close. PITCH "imperfect" began with a crude joke, meandered [...]
Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac. Photo by Gretjen Helene/A.R.T. If the end of the world were tomorrow, there's no one I'd rather have shuffle me off to Buffalo and back than Mandy Patinkin (in his A.R.T. debut) and Taylor Mac ("The Lily's Revenge") as a pair of waterlogged vaudevillians who tap their way ashore after a global [...]
I'm mad always and forever for: MAD MEN. SPOILER ALERT!! Sunday's final episode of the greatest TV series ever made, will forever have me reeling, as it did from my first ride on that "Carousel" of Don Draper's imagination. MAD MEN, a saga of men and women on Madison Avenue, served up the most compelling, unpredictable, and fully fleshed out fictional characters [...]
