I'm just back from a winter break catching up with a couple of productions--and the best of what's now onstage is easily August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama THE PIANO LESSON. It is yet another transfixing production mounted by Actors' Shakespeare Project in partnership with HIBERNIAN HALL with an exceptional ensemble bringing visceral life to August [...]
The following are both CRITICS PICKS which indicate shows that the Boston Theater Critics Association (of which I am proud to be president) have especially recommended while they are still onstage and able to be seen in and around Boston! Photo: Jim Sabitus The first is the greater Boston premiere of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated [...]
A haunting and beautiful production of playwright August Wilson's most ruminative work, SEVEN GUITARS, is now onstage in the heart of Roxbury at historic Hibernian Hall. Mounted by Actors' Shakespeare Project with a compelling ensemble cast and directed by resident company member and award-winning actor/director Maurice Emmanuel Parent, the production is a glowing ember in [...]
Women dominate much of what's onstage right now, beginning with George Bernard Shaw's comedy of manners, gender, class, and now-- colonialism and cultural assimilation. PYGMALION has gotten a makeover by New York's brilliant Bedlam theater company by way of Underground Railway Theater at Central Square. It's a crisp, up-to-the minute, vibrant and touching take on a classic. [...]
