I was struck by how moving this production of BREAKING THE CODE-- Hugh Whitemore's 1986 play now onstage at Central Square Theater-- still is! In the hands of an excellent cast, elegantly directed by Scott Edmiston, beautifully lit and simply staged with an updated epilogue by Neil Bartlett, the play remains an acutely relevant real [...]
WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL is now having its world premiere onstage at The Huntington Theatre! The title, if not suggestive of a common occurrence, must surely be an everyday impulse. This semi-uproarious comedy by Matthew Lombardo was inspired by a real life backstage/onstage drama to which Bostonians had a front row seat in the summer of [...]
I had my socks knocked off last night by SUFFS a show which hits like a thunderbolt across history re-igniting our own fraught fight for social justice! SUFFS now onstage at THE EMERSON COLONIAL THEATRE is a stirring call to action, enacted by a glorious cast who deliver the history of women's suffrage with fire [...]
You have GOT to see this show: 300 PAINTINGS . Never has "bipolar disorder" or art seemed so accessible or fun! I am not being flip. This one-man show is built on the shoulders and psyche of an Australian stand up comic diagnosed with bipolar disorder who's made his way through the USA, Europe, the [...]
HAMILTON is back onstage presented by Broadway in Boston at Citizens Opera House-- and long may it wave. Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterwork whose book, music, and lyrics rapped us through the Revolutionary War with its multiracial, multi-ethnic cast, is the hip hop musical heard round the world. This stunning production is more potent, more relevant, and [...]
This is the 29th summer of Commonwealth Shakespeare's Company's FREE production of Shakespeare on Boston Common and it is, indeed, AS YOU LIKE IT. I like it too! Directed by CSC's Artistic Director Steven Maler, this is an exuberant, out of the box, big as all outdoors production of one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies. [...]
BACK TO THE FUTURE is a boundary-breaking technical tour de force! It lifts us out of our seats and into the space/time continuum along with Marty McFly and an excellent cast who take us back to the beloved film! Based on the charming, witty, sci-fi classic released almost 40 years ago to the day-- July [...]
WELL HELLO!! I must say, that this iconic, long-running, Tony-Award-winning musical HELLO DOLLY! has never been a fave of mine and I've seen a few incarnations of its heroine including the divinely daffy Carol Channing's signature stage turn and Barbra Streisand's miscast movie version. AIMEE DOHERTY brings her musical theater chops, deepened vocals, comic timing, [...]
Get a ticket fast-- these will not last. The Huntington has wrapped up its season by sending us off to Italy with its most elegant production yet— a stunning, full-throated, openhearted, operatic sweep of a musical, visually and vocally sumptuous! I was completely enveloped by THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. L to R: Sarah-Anne [...]
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is an old story with eternal clout. This rapturous production now onstage at THE HUNTINGTON is a rollicking exploration of love and reason, gender and power, politics and class. Yes, it was written in 1732 by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux and has a marvelous cast but it's the rip-roaring [...]
