Begin the new year by seeing the powerful, complex, vividly staged and imagined INVISIBLE MAN. Ralph Ellison's towering novel of a black man's struggle for identity has been brilliantly adapted for the stage by Oren Jacoby. Every word is taken from Ellison's masterpiece, acutely and imaginatively directed by Christopher McElroen who has channeled the metaphorically [...]
My head's STILL spinning from Sunday night's 70th installment of THE GOLDEN GLOBES! What a wild night. BEN AFFLECK trumped the OSCAR snub by winning-- much to his and everyone else's amazement-- BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (drama) for ARGO. He then forgot to thank producer George Clooney with whom he was sitting all night. [...]
I went expecting nothing-- and came away feeling like I'd really been somewhere: FAIRHAVEN-- an absorbingly authentic chamber piece about a restless man fishing for a meaningful life. Set in the working class town of Fairhaven on the south coast of Massachusetts, the film is a maiden voyage for its filmmaker Medford-born Tom O'Brien who [...]
I set my alarm (as a late riser, I'm always on L.A. time) and was up at the crack of 8:30 to hear Emma Stone and this year's Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane announce the nominations-- when I was blown out of my breakfast nook by the stupefying news that Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck were [...]
Osama Bin Laden is dead. The chilling and detailed ZERO DARK THIRTY directed by Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Director: THE HURT LOCKER) and written by Mark Boal tells us with great suspense and precision of the ten-year hunt for the terrorist leader, and his execution by Navy [...]
My husband remarked, that any show that needs a troupe of circus performers to liven it up couldn't be much of a show to begin with. He has a point. PIPPIN-- the 1972 Tony Award-winning musical is once again headed for Broadway in a new incarnation. The A.R.T.'s 40th Anniversary production certainly gets a lift [...]
Hello Arts lovers! Now that I've got your attention with one man's creative approach to photographing his wife (click here) Let's support the Arts in Massachusetts by speaking up now! I know you and I believe in the arts as essential to life, and a key part of what makes our state great! The following [...]
I have always loved this musical onstage, but was never so miserable as when I sat through all 157 minutes onscreen. LES MISERABLES--despite some exceptional musical performances--dies a torturous death by close-up at the hands of tone-deaf director Tom Hooper. "LES MIS" as we familiarly call it, is the theatrical extravaganza put to music by [...]
There are THREE more good shows onstage in Boston RIGHT NOW that you should try to see before they close-- so hurry! MEMPHIS--The 2010 Tony Award-winning musical written by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, and which began in Beverly, MA in 2003 at the North Shore Music Theatre, is inspired by the true story of [...]
Director David Cromer as Stage Manager in "Our Town" Do not miss a masterpiece onstage right now presented by the Huntington Theatre Company: OUR TOWN. There is no way to talk about this re-staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play without feeling the fullness of its resonance almost 75 years after it premiered on [...]
