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 [...]
It pains me to have to say this-- which is why I've probably put it off-- but the A.R.T.s latest production and world premiere-- is the biggest disappointment of the season: WILD SWANS is a real turkey. There's a good chance you were one of the more than 13 million who read Jung Chang's 1991 [...]
I am so EXCITED!! The hottest show on Broadway, the winner of nine Tony awards including Best Musical-- THE BOOK OF MORMON-- is headed to Boston as part of the upcoming 2012-2013 Lexus Broadway Season presented by Broadway in Boston! Plus: the winner of five Tony awards including Best Play WAR HORSE, Tony award-winning Best [...]
I could barely keep from screaming when I saw it: PHOTOGRAPH 51--an eye-opening play about yet ANOTHER unsung woman's achievement: Rosalind Franklin, a scientist duped out of the NOBEL prize by Watson and Crick of double helix fame. I will now forever think of them as double-crossers. The play by Anna Ziegler tells the [...]
TIME STANDS STILL -- in a photograph-- but what is its value, and its cost? These are the questions a photojournalist must ask herself in one of the smartest new Broadway plays now onstage in Boston at The Lyric Stage Company: TIME STANDS STILL by Donald Margulies. Under Scott Edmiston's astute direction, this expert ensemble [...]
We've all been there-- those uncomfortable little family dinners, roiling with resentments and old hurts, that turn testy between courses. Welcome to Zeitgeist Stage Company's accomplished production of TIME OF MY LIFE. As we enter the theater, it's like walking into a restaurant and we're spectators-- some of us at neighboring tables-- observing a cacophonous [...]
Marvel's THE AVENGERS kicks off the summer movie season May 4! But this LEAP DAY--you can see all your favorite action heroes in the new trailer starring: Robert Downey Jr, (IRON MAN), Chris Evans (CAPTAIN AMERICA), Mark Ruffalo (BRUCE BANNER), Chris Hemsworth (THOR), Scarlett Johansson (BLACK WIDOW), Jeremy Renner (HAWKEYE), Tom Hiddleston (LOKI), and [...]
HURRY!! You and your family are invited to a complimentary 3D advance screening of Disney’s’ “JOHN CARTER”. THE FIRST 12 PEOPLE TO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on home page) WITH THEIR FULL NAMES WILL BE NOTIFIED by e-mail of PASSES FOR FOUR! Thursday, March 1, 7:00PM at a Boston Theater. (Theater will be named when [...]
