The north shore is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC! Don't waste a moment and see if you can snag a ticket for the last performances this weekend (they've added an extra show Sunday) of North Shore Music Theatre's season opener of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that solves a problem like Maria, and climbs every [...]
This time around, Superman has not only lost his red underpants, he's lost his identity-- and he used to have two! Remember Christopher Reeve's charming, bumbling Clark Kent who kept his cape under wraps around Margot Kidder's sassy Lois Lane, that is-- just until he'd explode out of his glasses and suit in order to [...]
Now THIS excites me. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET due out this November!
Kulhawiks in Krakow No kidding. The hottest spot in Europe now is POLAND. I just blew in from the land of pierogi and kielbasa, sauerkraut and beet soup, all of which have graced our Easter and Christmas Eve tables since I was a little girl. The Kulhawiks (pronounced "kool-HAH-veek") were a colorful bunch. My [...]
HURRY!! FREE SCREENING PASSES for an IFC Film’s upcoming release “DIRTY WARS” THE FIRST 10 PEOPLE TO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on home page) WITH NAME OF FILM, THEIR FULL NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE EMAILED A PASS FOR TWO FOR THE RUN OF THE FILM! “DIRTY WARS” Running Time: 90 Minutes Opening Date: [...]
There are three musicals now onstage in Boston. Only one really gave me a lift: The Tony award-winning IN THE HEIGHTS which has just been extended at The SpeakEasy Stage! Their production is MUCH better than the bloodless hip-jiggling, shoulder-shimmying Broadway roadshow that salsa-ed through town a few seasons ago. I thought it prosaic with [...]
Loved this--and I am not a Trekker, have never been on a spacecraft, or had an out of body experience (OK maybe once) but I love an exciting cinematic romp through outer space, and after seeing STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS I left the theater feeling like my car was the Starship Enterprise (and if you [...]
It's great-- once it stops. The first frantic 45 minutes of filmmaker Baz ("Moulin Rouge") Luhrman's eye-popping, screen swollen, 3D, musical mashup of F. Scott Fitzgerald's mythic novel brought me to the brink of motion sickness. Then it settled down, and the dramatic interplay of these iconic characters, against the deeper backdrop of the American [...]
If you don’t have time to read the FULL TEXT REVIEW of “42”– check out my :30 Second Review with video for a short, smart critical assessment of this biopic about Jackie Robinson who broke Baseball's color barrier –and get the bottom line fast!
The 31st annual ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS honoring Boston theater was one of the best shows ever! As president of The Boston Theater Critics Association I was honored to emcee this annual event at Boston's Paramount Center (5/13) where 24 winners took home their "Norties"-- the coveted Elliot Norton Awards! BROADWAY ICON CHITA RIVERA ACCEPTS LIFETIME [...]
