In this year of the centennial of women's suffrage (Is it possible we've only had the vote since 1920??) it's perfect that the woman most associated with second-wave feminism beyond enfranchisement-- "Women's Lib" as I first called it in the '70's--is still on the front lines, driving home the conversation she began 50 years ago. [...]
Here it is short and sweet--a guide on what to see this weekend onstage! THE LION KING: Disney's extravaganza by way of the movie and local wunderkind Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor, THE LION KING has roared back into town! The show literally emerges grandly from the audience and right up onto the stage [...]
I just saw a very moving "theater double feature" in one afternoon involving sons and daughters in jeopardy. Boston Playwrights' Theatre just opened its season with "THE TRAGIC ECSTASY OF GIRLHOOD" a new play with an unwieldy title but an ensemble of exceptional young actresses who draw us into the painful emotional centers of their [...]
MUST SEE: "A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK." On the night I saw it at the Huntington Theatre's second stage at the Calderwood, the audience wouldn't stop clapping until this killer two-man cast came out to take another bow. Penned by Ken Urban and directed by Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo, this swift and scorching play stars [...]
There's a BIG FISH flopping around onstage over at SPEAKEASY. It's a tale by Daniel Wallace born as a novel, morphed into a film by Tim Burton, then blown up to a broadway musical, with a book by John August and music/lyrics by Andrew Lippa--who then scaled it back from 26 actors to 12, and gave it its "intimate" New England premiere. The relationship between a tall tale-telling traveling salesman Edward [...]
RUSH to see TRACES--a vibrant gorgeous troupe of Canadian circus performers known as LES DOIGTS DE LA MAIN-- or "Seven fingers of the hand." It won't take you long to get a handle on them. Hanging by the slimmest of theatrical threads-- they're supposed to be locked in a shelter during what might be the apocalypse, trying to make the most of their [...]
OMG. I just saw what has to be one of the most exciting new plays, productions, and ensembles of the year--by the excellent actor Steven Barkhimer called WINDOWMEN at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. The whole thing takes place in one dingy room of the wholesale lower Manhattan fish market known to the world as the Fulton [...]
