BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR 30th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS Tommy Tune To Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Award Kate Snodgrass To Receive Annual Prize for Sustained Excellence Tickets: $30 available online: aestages.org. or call: 617-824-8000! 30TH ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARD NOMINEES: OUTSTANDING VISITING PRODUCTION Mabou Mines DollHouse (ArtsEmerson) Richard III and [...]
This spring and summer live music will turn up the heat all over New England! SO much music--SO little time. Here are my picks for the best shows coming to town! If you have teen or pre-teen girls- THIS JUST IN: ONE DIRECTION!! THEIR FIRST HEADLINE TOUR SELLS OUT IN MINUTES INCLUDING MADISON SQUARE GARDEN! DUE [...]
It's not too late to see one of the BEST shows now onstage in Boston-- the Huntington Theatre Company's explosive, soul-searing production of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM. With this play, the Huntington completes its presentation of all ten of Wilson's epic cycle of plays, one for each decade of the [...]
This is a lean time of year for good films-- but THE HUNGER GAMES has put an end to the famine. It isn't perfect-- but it is perfectly cast. Jennifer Lawrence who earned considerable notice for her powerful, understated performance in 2010's WINTER'S BONE, is bound for superstardom in this futuristic thriller directed by Gary Ross, [...]
MAD MEN lovers--gotta love this!
Delusional "bipolar depression with manic episodes," isn't usually the stuff of musical theater, but Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book/lyrics) have set the malady to music and turned it into art, winning three Tony's and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama. NEXT TO NORMAL has just made its Boston premiere at the SpeakEasy [...]
I haven't been able to get these glorious songs by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg out of my head, since seeing the new 25th Anniversary Production of LES MISERABLES at the Boston Opera House last week. The show remains a pulverizing extravaganza of story, music, and emotion, as powerful as the first time I saw [...]
BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE LEGENDARY SONG & DANCE MAN TOMMY TUNE RECIPIENT OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS SET FOR MAY 21 AT PARAMOUNT CENTER Tickets on sale March 15 at 10am. The Boston Theater Critics Association is pleased to announce legendary song and dance man TOMMY TUNE will [...]
One of my oldest and dearest friends from high school-- Brigid Smith-- is a brilliant writer and wrote the following in honor of today's special date! "It's Pi Day! 3/14/2012 12:00:00 PM Every year on March 14 we pause to celebrate pi, the irrational number commonly abbreviated to 3.14. Some enthusiasts go so far as [...]
Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY and I embrace all my sisters the world over! Female empowerment is one of THE pivotal issues of the 21st century and I am about to add fuel to the fire. I have just finished watching one of the most infuriating movies I have ever seen. It’s a 90-minute documentary [...]
