Must see this IMMEDIATELY --without the kids-- and it closes this weekend: ROSEMARY'S BABY JESUS. It's the Gold Dust Orphans' annual Christmas musical spectacular! DESPITE the bawdy send up of Roman Polanski's horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" about a young married couple starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse whose neighbors turn [...]
'Tis the season to be jolly! From the sacred to the profane, you'll find it all onstage now--with MUSIC! Hang onto your hot cocoa and here we go. Head on up to Stoneham to see one of the best productions ever mounted by Greater Boston Stage Company: LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical! It's Louisa [...]
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Christmas is being celebrated on other planets, and has special significance on those indiscreetly-named celestial bodies currently being invaded by Ryan Landry's GOLD DUST ORPHANS. I laughed my ass off, and so will you! If you like silly, bawdy fun in the holiday spirit, then CHRISTMAS ON URANUS is [...]
This Monday May 11, 7 PM you're all invited to the event I've been working on ALL YEAR -- THE NORTIES, more formally known as THE ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS onstage at THE SHUBERT THEATRE. (BUY TICKETS HERE!) It's the night The Boston Theater Critics Association passes out awards to our fabulous theater community, then passes out at a [...]
Remember that famous number from GYPSY where three strippers advise a novice on how to take it all off, "You Gotta Get a Gimmick"? Well imagine now that it's three men (?) in burqas peeking through veiled flaps over heavily mascara-ed eyes singing "You Gotta Get a Burqa"! This is the kind of irreverence Ryan Landry and his Gold [...]
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 [...]
Photo courtesy Michael von Redlich Listen up beautiful people-- The Gold Dust Orphans are back with a bang and this time they have some pretty big shoulders to fill. Joan Crawford did it in 1945 and Varla Jean Merman (Jeffrey Roberson) is doing it onstage right now at Machine: MILDRED FIERCE! To quote [...]
I have never laughed so long and so hard in my life. I may never need abdominal exercises again: I just saw the most obscenely funny show in town-- MARY POPPERS now playing at MACHINE-- otherwise known as The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. It's the latest Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans [...]
