Some fine productions have just opened in the last week all around town! Here's my first choice to kick off the fall theater season! Omari K. Chancellor in Purpose; photo by Marc J Franklin PURPOSE at the HUNTINGTON's Calderwood Pavilion, first made me laugh-- then made my head explode. The Huntington continues to [...]
COULDN'T RESIST! A few more pics at the FAB AFTER PARTY following the 2026 ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS held on Monday night June 1 presented by the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION at the HUNTINGTON THEATRE honoring the OUTSTANDING work of this past THEATER SEASON! We swanned around with Paul Melendy (now appearing in IRMA VEP at [...]
THE 43rd ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS held MONDAY NIGHT JUNE 1 at the HUNTINGTON THEATRE was a spectacular, heartfelt evening in which the BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION honored the OUTSTANDING work of the greater Boston Theater Community! 142 nominations in over 3 dozen categories were represented as Actors, Directors, Writers, Choreographers, Musicians, Designers took their bows, [...]
I'd never heard of Toni Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball on a man’s team in the Negro Leagues, but TONI STONE is now onstage presented by THE HUNTINGTON through June 16 and a CRITICS PICK! Admittedly, I know little about baseball and its history but I have heard of Babe Ruth and [...]
The Huntington in association with Alliance Theatre and Front Porch Arts Collective has kicked off its seventh season at the BCA Calderwood Pavilion with a brilliant production of the wildly funny and wise FAT HAM! This show which has already been extended through October 29, marks yet another chapter in a remarkable and eye-opening collaboration [...]
Dancing broke out onstage at the after party. DJ WhySham didn't stop 'til midnight. Applause, cheers and passionate, heartfelt, exuberant speeches even picked up momentum as the three-hour-plus show continued. This was the vibe at the 40th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS held at the Huntington Theatre on Monday night May 8, 2023, also proclaimed-- in [...]
Bobbie Steinbach, 2023 recipient of The Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence The NOMINATIONS for The 40th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS are out! FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE and THE HUNTINGTON lead the pack with 30 and 29 nominations respectively in a field of 137 nominees in total. The winners will be announced at [...]
The news is out! The BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION of which I am proud to be President has officially announced that our season-end extravaganza known as The Elliot Norton Awards honoring the best of greater Boston theater is back LIVE and IN PERSON after three years! The Boston Globe ran the story today-- READ IT [...]
TWO WORLD PREMIERES hit the stage in Boston-- BOTH very much worth seeing. While not perfect, these works live at the edge of what's happening now, reminding us with urgency of what we already know and need to address. THE ART OF BURNING is onstage now at Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. It's [...]
In the last two weeks I have seen three productions--the most challenging of which I saw less than 24 hours ago and has left me reeling. BLKS which is making its New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage has tested the limits of my personal boundaries around what I find funny, and what is just too [...]
