DO NOT MISS one of the best actresses in this or ANY town in a bravura one woman show: GROUNDED about a female fighter pilot navigating charted and uncharted territory. It FLOORED me. Every pun intended. Presented by THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY at Cambridge's Central Square Theater, GROUNDED stars CELESTE OLIVA who steers us through a physical, emotional, psychological and ultimately spiritual journey without ever leaving her seat; I'm [...]
What to see now ONSTAGE? There are a slew of good productions playing, and I am going to give you thumbnail reviews to catch up and let you know where I think your time is best spent beginning with the following DO NOT MISS SHOW: --The miraculous BEDLAM'S ST. JOAN presented by Underground Railway Theater and directed by Eric Tucker [...]
The title is unwieldy--but in her day she wielded enough intellectual and sexual heat to amp up the already significant wattage of the Age of Enlightenment. Emilie du Chatelet should be a household name like Newton and Einstein but history has shoved her aside. Because of her gender, her brilliance has been overlooked, undermined, and [...]
To see OR not to see? That is the question I will answer about what's onstage around town right now. To see: AS YOU LIKE IT presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project at the Springstep Building in Medford! Full disclosure: my husband the brilliant architect Andrew Cohen of ACTWO Architects designed the building, and it has [...]
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET--is worth maybe $100,000. Now onstage at the Colonial (the video above features a different cast) the show speculates on what actually happened the night of Dec. 4, 1956 when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis met at producer Sam Phillips studio and improvised an historic jam session, later dubbed [...]
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 [...]
