I'm just back from a winter break catching up with a couple of productions--and the best of what's now onstage is easily August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama THE PIANO LESSON. It is yet another transfixing production mounted by Actors' Shakespeare Project in partnership with HIBERNIAN HALL with an exceptional ensemble bringing visceral life to August [...]
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Two musicals have just descended on the Boston area: one old, one new--each with its ups and downs. Mara Cecilia as PEGGY SAWYER First,"Come and meet those dancing feet/On the avenue I'm taking you to/42ND STREET"--now in Waltham at the REAGLE THEATRE just finishing up its 49th season! This is the final weekend of [...]
The world premiere musical FINDING NEVERLAND now playing at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge is part magic and mostly schlock-- which might be a recipe for a Broadway smash (It's headed there in March 2015) but left me hungry for the production I believe it can be. The show is based on the 2004 [...]
By now you've probably heard that PETER PAN has been flying around City Hall Plaza since October. No--this isn't some kind of wisecrack. It's simply true--and it's a unique theatrical production of J.M. Barrie's little boy who wouldn't grow up. I saw it awhile ago-- and some of it is quite thrilling-- and some of [...]
