ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN free passes to the Fathom Event’s The Met Series 2015 Live and Encore one night events! Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with “(Name of production) & JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line. 5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their complimentary passes! The passes will be valid [...]
Yes-- MORE THEATER! The season is in full swing and I just saw THE MOST WILDLY INSPIRING theatrical undertaking thus far this season presented by ARTS EMERSON: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME. In case you forgot, he's the legendary Irish explorer who crossed Antarctica between 1914-1917 and barely made it back alive after the ice ate his boat, and the crew ate the dogs. That Ernest Shackleton. And yes, it's [...]
Bob Mussett, Gene Dante, Diego Buscaglia. Mikey DiLoreto; Damon Singletary, Victor Shopov, Ryan Landry, and Brooks Reeves. Photo by Richard Hall/Silverline Images When it first opened off-Broadway in 1968, THE BOYS IN THE BAND must have been shocking with its scenes of gay men kissing and its subject matter so baldly exposed. Almost 50 years [...]
© T Charles Erickson Photography The song was SEND IN THE CLOWNS and when I first heard it in 1973, the year Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC won the Tony--I was never the same. I was absolutely stricken by its painfully exquisite, wryly mournful melody and lyrics, somewhere between a dream of romance and the irony of missed chances. Huntington [...]
"APPROPRIATE" is a ghost story that has "appropriated" the familiar tropes of familial dysfunction and reveals some very "inappropriate" secrets that crack open a white southern family as they "unpack" the dark contents of their estate after dad has died. It's an adventurous season opener for SpeakEasy Stage Company, written by hot young Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins who has [...]
“Black Mass,” the movie all of Boston has been dying to see — shot right here in our own back yard, where these grizzly events unfolded — is a funereal event. It’s a solid film, with an impressive central performance by Johnny Depp as Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger, but it never rises to the [...]
Photo by Andrew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures. Take a deep breath and get ready for the season opener at the New Repertory Theatre: BROKEN GLASS. It's a potent dose of Arthur Miller, 1994, and a play that has never been performed in the Boston area before. It's set in 1938 and in Germany [...]
I've grown accustomed to seeing MY FAIR LADY. With each viewing I have been more or less delighted, entertained, and amused by this classic, onstage and onscreen. But never did I expect to be newly aroused by the characters, or for the first time find Henry Higgins of "romantic" interest, let alone care about the socio-economic struggle underpinning this tale about a linguistics professor [...]
Documentaries continue to be among the strongest, most absorbing and well-crafted pieces of cinema today. Here's yet another just out in theaters and On Demand: STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE, the latest from Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney who has previously applied his critical intelligence and probing eye to Scientology and the Enron scandal. Now he's taken a bite [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING for a Sundance Selects’ upcoming release “SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE”. For the chance to receive two tickets to the screening please email SUNDANCESELECTS56@GMAIL.COM with “SLEEPING” in the subject line! Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 7:00PM in Boston (Theater will be named on your ticket) “SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE” Running Time: 100 Minutes Rated: [...]
