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 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 [...]
As the curtain came down on opening night of THE ADDAMS FAMILY musical comedy, I was suddenly reminded of Kurtz's famous last words at the end of "Heart of Darkness"-- "The Horror!The Horror!" As I, along with many other unfortunate theater-goers, fled the Shubert last night-- some of them at intermission--one of them called out [...]
We're all gearing up for a little rumble this weekend-- and if you're in that kinda' mood head on over to the Huntington Theatre Company for a little bloodletting. There you'll find the Tony Award-Winning comedy "GOD OF CARNAGE" which sets up a nasty little encounter between two couples who meet for the first time [...]
You have till Sunday (1/29) to see this world premiere --and you must. It's called SUGAR, and Robbie McCauley has spun an extraordinarily sweet and stirring memoir out of her grueling, life-long battle with disease: Diabetes. What? A one woman show about diabetes? That's right, and I sat there for two hours mesmerized; the story [...]
Hurry!! The first JoycesChoices follower to respond with his or her full name (via "contact Joyce" on the home page) gets A PAIR OF FREE THEATER TICKETS to see "RED" at SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston! This is the best show on stage right now in town! Click here for my complete review! *****The tickets [...]
It all begins with a blank canvas. Doesn't everything. But who could have imagined what would happen when one of three friends purchases just that-- and all hell breaks loose? That's precisely what French playwright Yasmina Reza imagined in her play 'ART,' a terrifically engaging and very well-played dramedy? tragicomedy?-- now onstage at [...]
Planning the weekend? Don't rule out LA CAGE AUX FOLLES now playing at Boston's Shubert Theatre until December 18!! Even though star George Hamilton cannot sing, dance, or act, the man generates such debonair goodwill, I just wanted to be in his company. I saw the show last week, and the rest of the cast [...]
