Begin the new year by seeing the powerful, complex, vividly staged and imagined INVISIBLE MAN. Ralph Ellison's towering novel of a black man's struggle for identity has been brilliantly adapted for the stage by Oren Jacoby. Every word is taken from Ellison's masterpiece, acutely and imaginatively directed by Christopher McElroen who has channeled the metaphorically [...]
Director David Cromer as Stage Manager in "Our Town" Do not miss a masterpiece onstage right now presented by the Huntington Theatre Company: OUR TOWN. There is no way to talk about this re-staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play without feeling the fullness of its resonance almost 75 years after it premiered on [...]
Onstage at the Huntington Theatre, it's 1977 and a man and a woman, Jerry and Emma, sit drinking in a pub. The conversation is halting, and we find out two things almost immediately-- they were lovers, they are not now. The play--BETRAYAL-- then unfolds in a series of short scenes that flow backwards in time-- [...]
Theater season is up and running and this week I'll give you my take--beginning with the best show on stage right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's wise and wicked-funny season opener GOOD PEOPLE! It's a Tony-nominated show that's very close to home. Pulitzer Prize-winner and South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has set his tale in [...]
Want to be superficial and delight in the moment? Then dash to the best show in town right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's season ender PRIVATE LIVES! Witness an effervescent ensemble who add extra crackle to Noel Coward's crisply witty comedy. On the surface everyone behaves beautifully, while underneath feelings are as unstable and evanescent [...]
It's not too late to see one of the BEST shows now onstage in Boston-- the Huntington Theatre Company's explosive, soul-searing production of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM. With this play, the Huntington completes its presentation of all ten of Wilson's epic cycle of plays, one for each decade of the [...]
We're all gearing up for a little rumble this weekend-- and if you're in that kinda' mood head on over to the Huntington Theatre Company for a little bloodletting. There you'll find the Tony Award-Winning comedy "GOD OF CARNAGE" which sets up a nasty little encounter between two couples who meet for the first time [...]
