Our mourning and awakening continues this weekend as BLACK LIVES MATTER holds center stage. THEATER: From the BOCH CENTER watch this potent, hyper-relevant performance piece called “Ode To The Young Black Man” from the 2016 City Spotlights final showcase, written and performed by program alumnus Alex Drumm! MOVIES: The Coolidge Corner Theatre [...]
URBAN NUTCRACKER Boston is pleased to offer Joyce’s Choices followers a CHANCE TO WIN TIX to one of four Family-4 packs (4 tickets!) to see the City Ballet of Boston production of Urban Nutcracker at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre! WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 27 at 7pm! The show is SO much fun! More than your usual ballet, URBAN NUTCRACKER celebrates a wildly [...]
I just saw the world premiere of FINISH LINE: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon. It runs circles around the movie "Patriot's Day" which managed to somehow reduce this global tragedy even as it ramped up the explosions and Mark Wahlberg's ubiquitous heroics. FINISH LINE has no literal explosions and makes a better point: there were no heroes, that is, no [...]
Last week was a big disappointment on the theater scene for me-- two plays I couldn't wait to see came up short. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS which just opened its national tour onstage at the new Boch Center's Wang Theatre (through November 6) is gorgeous to look at with great choreography, sets, costumes, and music-- but a book that [...]
