The girl is 13 years old from a small mountain village in Nepal, but we know she is about to be trafficked as a sexual slave within minutes of the opening scenes of SOLD, an arresting film based on Patricia McCormick's novel which puts the spotlight on a horrible truth hiding in plain sight: millions of children are trafficked all over the world [...]
As attractive, well-crafted, and convincingly--even compellingly acted as BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE was, I couldn't stop thinking that one good conversation between our superheroes would have cleared the whole thing up. But then it dawned on me-- there would be no movie. Boys will be boys, so this screenplay goes a long way toward ramping [...]
One day we won't need a FLICKS4CHICKS contest, but you may have perhaps noticed that it keeps raining men at the movies. From macho superheroes and shoot 'em up cop dramas, to frat boy hi-jinks, comedic buddy bromances, and sci-fi adventure films it's mostly men in the drivers' seats, in front of [...]
HAMILTON's coming--in 2017-18!! DATES & ON-SALE TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER. BUT FIRST, here's NEXT Season 2016-2017 Lexus Broadway In Boston Season Direct from Broadway: *The National Tour of SOMETHING ROTTEN! officially launches in Boston *National Theatre production THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME *Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I *American [...]
It has been an intense week for theater-- all of it worthy and wildly different! Check out THE LAUNCH PRIZE a terrifically engaging new play presented by MJ Halberstadt and produced by Bridge Rep. The situation is as timely as it is provocative. Four arts students are vying for the big, year-end academic prize which will launch their [...]
Where would we be without two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Sally Field and another of her indelible, quirky, wholly committed, utterly endearing performances? One glimpse of Field in the opening sequence as Doris Miller crying at her mother's funeral, wearing cat eye glasses and a big Minnie Mouse bow wrapped around a towering bun of hair-- and she had me at [...]
That title delivers exactly what it says and lucky for us. How often do we have the chance to find out directly from an artist what made him or her who they are? It's what I always want to know. That we get to have that experience at the Huntington Theatre the artistic home of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist August Wilson, the place which helped birth eight of [...]
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN free passes to the Fathom Event's documentary "Living with Beethoven" featuring The Berlin Philharmonic! Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with “BEETHOVEN – JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line. 5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their complimentary passes. Passes will be valid for the Showcase Cinema De Lux [...]
There's a pile of new shows onstage in town-- and I will sort through it for you right now! CAPS FOR SALE: The Musical--Take the kids to see this world premiere production based on the classic children's book, whimsically performed by Boston Children's Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion. This tale of Pezzo the Peddler and his passel of caps burgled by a [...]
This is a MUST SEE now onstage only through Sunday 3/6: a breathtaking, translucent production of Chekhov's THREE SISTERS in Russian that was so staggeringly beautiful, vibrant, and accessible that I apprehended every word, every nuance. And I don't speak Russian. Rarely have I seen a production of a [...]
