What to consider while you're digging out and planning your next theater outing! Josephine Moshiri Elwood and Dennis Trainor, Jr. Photo: Benjamin Rose Photography. JOB--MUST SEE THIS at SpeakEasy Stage! Buckle up- the opening scenes of this psychological thriller might give you a heart attack. One set. Two actors. 80 minutes. No intermission. It's [...]
Here are three to see onstage this summer weekend-- all are short, smart, inspiring, entertaining, and incredibly affordable or PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN to see! LOVE, LOSS, & WHAT I WORE presented by HUB THEATRE COMPANY of BOSTON only runs through Saturday 8/5-- and it's too bad it's not having a longer run! Based on the book by [...]
You certainly can...not touch it. And once you see this production of "can i touch it," especially if you have ever posed this and other imposing questions about a Black person's hair, you will understand why not. Company One Theatre presents this 4 person piece about "beauty"-- from beauty supply products and gentrification to who [...]
There are some fabulous shows onstage in Boston, right now! At the top of the list is a kick-ass production of the Tony Award-winning musical AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' The Fats Waller Musical now onstage at Central Square Theater! Trust me-- you don't want to miss this. The joint started jumpin' before the show even began! The [...]
COMPANY ONE THEATRE is in top form as it opens its 19th season with a thrilling 75 minute world premiere: HYPE MAN at the BCA PLAZA. Playwright Idris Goodwin ("How We Got On") delivers another in his cycle of break beat plays, this one a fresh, bold wholly engrossing musical that uncoils the tensions social, [...]
From the best nanny to the last Schwartz, Shakespearean lovers to LGBTQ rendez-vous's--there's a lot worth your while as you while away these midsummer nights. FIRST, pack a picnic and head down to the heart of Boston to see Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the common. This is one of their best productions ever! Now until August 7 don't [...]
Maria Jan Carreon in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them Company One has done it again with the most provocative, engrossing, well-acted, and directed show onstage in Boston right now: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM. It's another unwieldy but aptly titled play by hot new playwright A. Rey Pamatmat whose [...]
ASTRO BOY & THE GOD OF COMICS Company One's latest production- is fast and fun, but also deeply, darkly moving, resonating far beyond the thin black comic book lines materializing before us onstage. Leave it to this cutting edge company to produce the New England premiere of playwright/director Natsu Onoda Power's extraordinary work incorporating actors, [...]
