There's still plenty of time to get out to TANGLEWOOD, the idyllic summer home of the BSO in the Berkshires. I hadn't been there since before the pandemic and it's even more glorious than ever, lush with greenery and music. Coming up soon a beloved annual tradition since 1946 with something for the whole family [...]
SO MUCH THEATER OUT THERE NOW! I caught up with five shows while nursing a broken ankle (don't ask) and most of them were worth going the distance. OTHELLO at THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER in Cambridge by way of The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an update on Shakespeare's tragedy about a noble man of [...]
It's one of my all time favorite musicals: the monumental and deeply American tale based on E.L. Doctorow's novel RAGTIME! Producing director Meg Fofonoff's Fiddlehead Theatre Company--in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union-- mounted this Tony-Award-winning musical as the season opener at the newly refurbished Strand Theatre in Dorchester. Ragtime's themes of social justice [...]
