There is an absolutely no holds barred, heart-breaking production of WEST SIDE STORY presented by Fiddlehead Theatre Company now playing at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester for six performances only. You MUST make time to see it. I'm talking thrilling voices and choreography, a beautiful, evocative set, and vibrantly staged production numbers that make use [...]
Yes-- MORE THEATER! The season is in full swing and I just saw THE MOST WILDLY INSPIRING theatrical undertaking thus far this season presented by ARTS EMERSON: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME. In case you forgot, he's the legendary Irish explorer who crossed Antarctica between 1914-1917 and barely made it back alive after the ice ate his boat, and the crew ate the dogs. That Ernest Shackleton. And yes, it's [...]
© T Charles Erickson Photography The song was SEND IN THE CLOWNS and when I first heard it in 1973, the year Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC won the Tony--I was never the same. I was absolutely stricken by its painfully exquisite, wryly mournful melody and lyrics, somewhere between a dream of romance and the irony of missed chances. Huntington [...]
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 [...]
Reagle Music Theatre is giving away 5 PAIRS of tickets to Guys and Dolls on Friday, June 12th exclusively through JoycesChoices! Guys and Dolls runs from June 11-21 at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham (617 Lexington Street). Enter to win! Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will open its 47th consecutive summer season with the Broadway favorite,Guys and Dolls, from June 11-21, [...]
The A.R.T does it again with WITNESS UGANDA a vibrant, moving world premiere production, that tells a modern true story of the power and the dark side of philanthropy(!) and stars the actual gay, black, Christian man who lived it. That man is the ultra-personable Griffin Matthews, a charismatic young performer who was kicked out [...]
The best show I've seen lately -- no question-- is onstage only until November 2 at the Cutler Majestic: Luis Bravo's FOREVER TANGO!!! We're talking 14 gorgeous Tango dancers and an 11 piece orchestra. Theater? you ask. Absolutely! I say. The Argentinian tango-- originally considered indecent, came out of the bordellos of Buenos Aires in [...]
I have never laughed so long and so hard in my life. I may never need abdominal exercises again: I just saw the most obscenely funny show in town-- MARY POPPERS now playing at MACHINE-- otherwise known as The Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. It's the latest Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans [...]
YOU MUST SEE The Tony Award-winning Broadway show FELA now playing at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre!! It's a spectacularly inspiring hybrid: theater, music, dance, biography, history lesson, political rally, religious experience, and the first theatrical production I've REALLY wanted to write about in awhile. Directed and choregraphed by the great Bill T. Jones, FELA is [...]
