I raved about HYPE MAN: a break beat play by Idris Goodwin at its 2018 world premiere directed onstage by Company One's artistic director Shawn LaCount. Now, as George Floyd haunts and Daunte Wright brings us to flash point again, this urgent piece of theater brings a too familiar tragedy right to our screens and [...]
Theater is non-stop in this town and two world premieres are now onstage in Boston! WOLF PLAY: This world premiere produced by Company One and written by Hansol Jung took me completely by surprise because it was about something I had never heard of: the online "adoption dissolution" of previously adopted children, bypassing regulated legal [...]
AN OCTOROON co-presented by Company One Theatre and Arts Emerson is smart, sassy, devastating "play-within- a-play"making, which begins with a black playwright casually putting on white face, and speaking directly to us through the layers. The central questions-- what it is to be black, to be white, to be any color in between, what those designations have to do with [...]
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 [...]
It's nuts out there on the boards! We've got bad Jews & displaced Hindu gods, dead poets and long lost lovers wrestling with love. Here we go! BAD JEWS: This is a real crowd pleaser written by Joshua Harmon, and directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, now breaking records over at SPEAKEASY STAGE. It's raucous and funny and plunges us right into [...]
Boston Theater Critics Association members with Olympia Dukakis and Paul Daigneault Olympia Dukakis Paul Daigneault It was a fabulous night!! THE MAYOR Marty Walsh spoke about his commitment to Boston as an ARTS town; OSCAR-WINNER Olympia Dukakis was honored, and her cousin and former GOVERNOR Mike Dukakis paid [...]
Liza Voll Photography THE FLICK is set in a movie theater and when the movie’s over, that’s when the real show begins. It’s not just ingenious—it’s brilliant. THE FLICK -- which won an OBIE for its talented playwright and cinephile Annie Baker--is here mounted by Company One and has to be one of [...]
There are two intense productions onstage in Boston right now--the first is an eye-opening, "in your face" piece of theater by that frisky but serious COMPANY ONE, now doing its first show at Arts Emerson's Paramount Black Box. "WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT...." tells the story of the first genocide of the 20th century, the [...]
You MUST see Company One's entertaining and enlightening HOW WE GOT ON! This is a jubilant show directed by Summer L. Williams that not only made me understand rap in a new way-- but made me FEEL it! This show captures the heart, mind, and soul of the art form, and channels the here and [...]
There's an ethnic smorgasbord onstage around town; I'm half Italian-- so let's begin with ArtsEmerson's presentation of Carlo Goldoni's commedia dell' arte classic THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. A maelstrom of mayhem ensues when a servant hatches a plan to earn twice as much money by serving two masters simultaneously! Warning: A little commedia dell [...]
