There are two fabulous shows in town right now right next door to each other: BURGERZ at The Paramount and AIN'T TOO PROUD The Life And Times of THE TEMPTATIONS at The Opera House! BURGERZ closes this weekend so time is short and so is the show. Only 70 minutes, but it packs a wallop--and [...]
Theater is non-stop in this town and two world premieres are now onstage in Boston! WOLF PLAY: This world premiere produced by Company One and written by Hansol Jung took me completely by surprise because it was about something I had never heard of: the online "adoption dissolution" of previously adopted children, bypassing regulated legal [...]
Check out these productions onstage NOW, beginning with Keith Hamilton Cobb's solo show AMERICAN MOOR back in town at the Paramount! If one picture is worth a thousand words, then my video review below should convince you to get there before it ends this weekend 4/21: Then grab the kids and go see [...]
Daniel Gerroll, Patricia Kalember, Karen Pittman, and Jim Poulos in The White Card. Photo: Gretjen Helene Photography It is accepted wisdom that "Seeing is believing," and seeing is precisely what THE WHITE CARD requires: seeing what is assumed and unexamined, namely the white card which gives those who have it a hidden pass, [...]
It's a feast for body and soul on a summer night: a troupe of young, sexy, international performers begin whirling about the stage, turning somersaults, tossing eggs, telling stories and cooking up their latest recipe for love, laughter, and courage in what Poet Jack Gilbert called "the furnace of this world." The show is called CUISINE & CONFESSIONS performed [...]
This is a MUST SEE now onstage only through Sunday 3/6: a breathtaking, translucent production of Chekhov's THREE SISTERS in Russian that was so staggeringly beautiful, vibrant, and accessible that I apprehended every word, every nuance. And I don't speak Russian. Rarely have I seen a production of a [...]
Yes-- MORE THEATER! The season is in full swing and I just saw THE MOST WILDLY INSPIRING theatrical undertaking thus far this season presented by ARTS EMERSON: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME. In case you forgot, he's the legendary Irish explorer who crossed Antarctica between 1914-1917 and barely made it back alive after the ice ate his boat, and the crew ate the dogs. That Ernest Shackleton. And yes, it's [...]
Some EXCELLENT theater out there right now, and one production has a short shelf life so I'm starting with Robert Lepage's NEEDLES AND OPIUM presented by ArtsEmerson now dazzling audiences onstage at The Cutler Majestic. Attention, singers, actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, architects, acrobats--imagine a giant cube in cross section, suspended in a black void, turning on a shifting axis, ceiling becoming floor, becoming [...]
What could be better than a tragic love story on a cold winter night? How about one that's also funny, hot, and funky--and will still tear your heart out!? That's KNEE HIGH'S TRISTAN & YSEULT now onstage at ArtsEmerson's Cutler Majestic, fresh from the UK, and I do mean fresh. Kneehigh lives between Monty Python and grand opera. Here, they take this classic [...]
The best theatre I've seen lately was a rambunctious KING LEAR presented by ARTS EMERSON and SHAKEPEARE's GLOBE ON TOUR over at the Paramount. Shakespeare's tragedy of a father who is blind to himself and the truth about his daughters-- twin vipers Goneril and Regan (wily performances by Gwendolen Chatfield and Shanaya Rafaat)-- and the true blue [...]
