I've seen a heap o' histrionics lately, and despite a few purported hits in town, nothing quite hit a home run for me-- though some came close: THE HUMANS at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre comes trailing a 2016 Tony Award for Stephen Karam's play as well as a slew of critics awards and a [...]
Here's the bottom line on some of what I've seen lately onstage and onscreen: THEATER *This is the last week to see Katori Hall's SATURDAY NIGHT/ SUNDAY MORNING at the Lyric Stage. It's an entertaining slice of life set in Memphis during WWII at Miss Mary's Press n' Curl, [...]
As the curtain rises, Cicely Tyson as Mother Carrie Watts sits framed in a window by moonlight, awake but dreaming of her long ago home in a little texas town called Bountiful. In the next room her fractious family sleeps-- a frustrated, striving son named Ludie (Blair Underwood) and his pretty, nagging wife Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams). Together, [...]
