THE LAST WILL is a theatrical bauble-- a shimmering amalgam of wishful dreaming, informed speculation, historical fact, literary sleuthing, and some damn fine acting-- conjured by Robert Brustein, and presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Suffolk University where Brustein is Distinguished Scholar in Residence. The play, which is having its world premiere, is the last [...]
WIN TICKETS TO PREMIERE SCREENING OF "BOSTON'S FINEST" WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20TH! The new TNT SERIES "BOSTON'S FINEST" from executive producer Donnie Wahlberg premieres on Feb 27th 9pm but TNT and XFINITY invite you and a guest to attend the premiere screening on FEBRUARY 20th! For your chance to see BOSTON'S FINEST in Boston on Wednesday February 20, send [...]
Some things never get old--and Bruce Willis as John McClane is one of them. For the fifth time, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD brings the relentless NYPD hero back -- this time in geri-action-- but the formula still works. Once again, it's John McClane against a world of bad guys; we know who's going [...]
Tennessee Williams' lyrical soul has come to life onstage at the A.R.T. in a play that can break your heart. THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a poignant masterpiece about a southern family searching for solace in a rough world that has left them shattered and picking up the pieces. The autobiographical work was a Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]
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There's an ethnic smorgasbord onstage around town; I'm half Italian-- so let's begin with ArtsEmerson's presentation of Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell' arte classic THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. A maelstrom of mayhem ensues when a servant hatches a plan to earn twice as much money by serving two masters simultaneously! Warning: A little commedia dell [...]
The Next Thing (TNT) Festival presented by ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage-- is right around the corner! It's a 10-day "mash-up" of film, music, and live performance edited on the spot and streamed live! TNT begins Feb 15 but as a prelude ArtsEmerson is screening Classics of World Cinema beginning Feb 1st. One of my all [...]
The Oscars are Feb 24, and over the next few days there are few "Oscar" films I need to catch you up on before the big event! See a French film called AMOUR which won this year's Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is among this year's nine Oscar nominees for Best Picture. [...]
I love nuns. I love great voices. So there are the two reasons I was able to sit through the absolutely ridiculous Tony-nominated musical SISTER ACT which just opened at The Boston Opera House. Whoopi starred in the film (the pitch meeting:"We'll take a bunch a nuns, dress 'em in sequins and make em sing [...]
So much to see, so little time-- here are few more productions in order of preference beginning with: 33 VARIATIONS--This lovely and satisfying production at the Lyric Stage, elegantly directed by Spiro Veloudos and written by Moises Kaufman, is a tale of two creative minds trying to solve a problem in a race against time. [...]
