I'll start with "astonishing": FUN HOME presented by The Huntington is a production I will never forget. I have always liked this Tony Award-winning musical, but it revealed itself here in all of its humanity and power. This production of FUN HOME stars an astonishing young performer who brought the house down more than once [...]
Here's PART III of my take on the rush of fall theater season openers in and around Boston, in order of how long they are open to help you plan! Photo: Ken Yotsukura If you thought your wedding was hard to plan-- this one's a load. THE CEREMONY is a world premiere and [...]
There's SO much to see out there right now! Here are 4 excellent productions, and this week I talked about them on THE CULTURE SHOW (airing daily at 2pm on GBH 89.7) with host JARED BOWEN! To hear our conversation, click HERE and scroll to April 15, 2025. The segment begins at 34:20 seconds in! [...]
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is an old story with eternal clout. This rapturous production now onstage at THE HUNTINGTON is a rollicking exploration of love and reason, gender and power, politics and class. Yes, it was written in 1732 by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux and has a marvelous cast but it's the rip-roaring [...]
An exceptional beginning at THE HUNTINGTON: SOJOURNERS is the first of a cycle of 9 plays-- THE UFOT Family Cycle written by Massachusetts-born playwright Mfoniso Udofia, a Nigerian-American whose family saga follows 3 generations over 100 years. Epic and intimate, SOJOURNERS swells with poetry, emotion, and characters whose lives and fortunes compel us to follow! [...]
WHAT TO SEE NOW! NASSIM presented by The Huntington at the BCA CALDERWOOD through 10/27! The show is never the same twice, literally. Each night a different performer takes the stage and that performer has never before seen the script! It's a leap of faith for all involved, performer and audience. Nassim has been performed [...]
I've just seen 4 plays in 10 days. Here are two of them-- more to come! MUST SEE: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN presented by THE HUNTINGTON at CALDERWOOD/BCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgU5gm042Ok&t=4s Look out Arthur Miller. Playwright Kimberly Belflower has flipped the script on witches, bitches, and snitches in a crucible of a play about predation, [...]
The theater season continues to explode like fireworks on the horizon. The Huntington season opener is a fleet and ferocious production tackling all the tough questions about the relentless scourge of antisemitism in a civilized society, and demands to be seen now. That it does so with equal parts humor and heartbreak is miraculous. PRAYER [...]
OK. I just saw the most exhilarating show of the season-- and YOU MUST SEE IT too! Presented by The Huntington in association with Front Porch Arts Collective: K-I-S-S-I-N-G is as sweet and lovely as that little jingle suggests- audience and actors "sittin' in a tree" in love with life and possibility! Supported by our [...]
THE HUNTINGTON opened its fall season with the musical "SING STREET" based on the 2016 movie by writer/director John Carney. It's a coming of age story set in 1980's Dublin about a teenage boy who falls for a beautiful mysterious girl who calls herself a "model." So he claims to have a band and then [...]
