Let's begin with STRAIGHT WHITE MEN-- since most things do. But time's up and now what? That's the question raised by playwright Young Jean Lee in her Broadway hit now having its New England premiere onstage presented by New Rep Theatre. First, I am a fan of another work of Lee's-- "We're Gonna Die" which [...]
It has stayed with me all week: ZEITGEIST Stage Company's production of LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! A line of men in white tulle; they are performing "Swan Lake" in drag. It's a scream--and heartrending. They are like angels appearing and disappearing, AIDS waiting in the wings, hovering over their lives, in the shadows of one summer [...]
Nancy E.Carroll and Michael Kaye. Photo by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo In MOTHERS & SONS, we never meet the son, but we meet his mother immediately, center stage, heavily defended in thick fur. Katherine (Nancy E. Carroll) has just paid a surprise visit to her deceased son's former partner Cal (Michael Kaye) and [...]
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 [...]
