Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and WAITRESS the world premiere, Broadway-bound musical composed by Grammy-nominated artist Sara Bareilles and directed by the A.R.T.'s Tony award-winning artistic director Diane Paulus. Start [...]
Head on up to Gloucester Stage for the last week of a touching play with a marvelous cast. SWEET AND SAD is part 2 of the four-part "The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country " cycle of plays by Tony-Award winning playwright Richard Nelson, here co-presented by Stoneham Theatre. This slice of the apple is juicier than [...]
Tina Chilip and Zachary Booth Photo: T. Charles Erickson AFTER ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS I DO-- with whom does that not resonate? Who among us hasn't searched for forgiveness, or at least understanding after all or even one terrible thing we've done? The new play by [...]
Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac. Photo by Gretjen Helene/A.R.T. If the end of the world were tomorrow, there's no one I'd rather have shuffle me off to Buffalo and back than Mandy Patinkin (in his A.R.T. debut) and Taylor Mac ("The Lily's Revenge") as a pair of waterlogged vaudevillians who tap their way ashore after a global [...]
There's a lovely, touching production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK playing through this weekend, presented and performed by the acclaimed Boston Children's Theatre in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank's death. On stage at the Calderwood Pavilion, the BCT production is impressive not only because of its sophisticated [...]
And the shows go on!! If you can make your way through the piles of white stuff-- there's lot to warm your heart out there on stage. Here's what I've seen recently: INTIMATE APPAREL: This is a warm, wise tale about about an African-American seamstress's hopes and dreams unfolding against the huge historical changes afoot at [...]
What to see now ONSTAGE? There are a slew of good productions playing, and I am going to give you thumbnail reviews to catch up and let you know where I think your time is best spent beginning with the following DO NOT MISS SHOW: --The miraculous BEDLAM'S ST. JOAN presented by Underground Railway Theater and directed by Eric Tucker [...]
It's nuts out there on the boards! We've got bad Jews & displaced Hindu gods, dead poets and long lost lovers wrestling with love. Here we go! BAD JEWS: This is a real crowd pleaser written by Joshua Harmon, and directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, now breaking records over at SPEAKEASY STAGE. It's raucous and funny and plunges us right into [...]
ASTRO BOY & THE GOD OF COMICS Company One's latest production- is fast and fun, but also deeply, darkly moving, resonating far beyond the thin black comic book lines materializing before us onstage. Leave it to this cutting edge company to produce the New England premiere of playwright/director Natsu Onoda Power's extraordinary work incorporating actors, [...]
Here's what's onstage this summer-- beginning with TWO productions right now in Boston-- and 11 MORE farther out, courtesy of my colleague ED SIEGEL at THE ARTERY! SMART PEOPLE-- a smashing world premiere production now at the Huntington Theatre Company's Second Stage (Calderwood Pavilion) is the latest from the brilliant Lydia R. Diamond. You may [...]
