It's a feast for body and soul on a summer night: a troupe of young, sexy, international performers begin whirling about the stage, turning somersaults, tossing eggs, telling stories and cooking up their latest recipe for love, laughter, and courage in what Poet Jack Gilbert called "the furnace of this world." The show is called CUISINE & CONFESSIONS performed [...]
This is a MUST SEE now onstage only through Sunday 3/6: a breathtaking, translucent production of Chekhov's THREE SISTERS in Russian that was so staggeringly beautiful, vibrant, and accessible that I apprehended every word, every nuance. And I don't speak Russian. Rarely have I seen a production of a [...]
Some EXCELLENT theater out there right now, and one production has a short shelf life so I'm starting with Robert Lepage's NEEDLES AND OPIUM presented by ArtsEmerson now dazzling audiences onstage at The Cutler Majestic. Attention, singers, actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, architects, acrobats--imagine a giant cube in cross section, suspended in a black void, turning on a shifting axis, ceiling becoming floor, becoming [...]
What could be better than a tragic love story on a cold winter night? How about one that's also funny, hot, and funky--and will still tear your heart out!? That's KNEE HIGH'S TRISTAN & YSEULT now onstage at ArtsEmerson's Cutler Majestic, fresh from the UK, and I do mean fresh. Kneehigh lives between Monty Python and grand opera. Here, they take this classic [...]
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 [...]
The best show I've seen lately -- no question-- is onstage only until November 2 at the Cutler Majestic: Luis Bravo's FOREVER TANGO!!! We're talking 14 gorgeous Tango dancers and an 11 piece orchestra. Theater? you ask. Absolutely! I say. The Argentinian tango-- originally considered indecent, came out of the bordellos of Buenos Aires in [...]
