Rounding out the season, I've seen a raft of shows-- here are the ones that floated my boat: Photo/GretjenHelene.com DRAGON MAMA: I was blown away by this one-woman show at Club Oberon part of A.R.T.'s breakout series in Harvard Square, Cambridge. This is a solo memoir and tour de force performance by the extraordinary [...]
Love is adding up on stages around town-- here are my calculations: BAD DATES: The Huntington Theatre Company has revived one of its most popular shows ever, which had its premiere there 15 years ago: Theresa Rebeck's one-woman show about a woman cataloguing her harrowing and hilarious romantic excursions! BAD DATES was a great date [...]
It's BEDLAM out there and I am referring to the rambunctious and fantastically subversive theater troupe out of NYC who takes a hearty bite out of Shakespeare, or rather two bites of the same juicy apple. The Bard called his gender-bending comedy of love, manners, and female empowerment TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL. BEDLAM takes the title literally and [...]
DO NOT MISS one of the best actresses in this or ANY town in a bravura one woman show: GROUNDED about a female fighter pilot navigating charted and uncharted territory. It FLOORED me. Every pun intended. Presented by THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY at Cambridge's Central Square Theater, GROUNDED stars CELESTE OLIVA who steers us through a physical, emotional, psychological and ultimately spiritual journey without ever leaving her seat; I'm [...]
The title is unwieldy--but in her day she wielded enough intellectual and sexual heat to amp up the already significant wattage of the Age of Enlightenment. Emilie du Chatelet should be a household name like Newton and Einstein but history has shoved her aside. Because of her gender, her brilliance has been overlooked, undermined, and [...]
I could barely keep from screaming when I saw it: PHOTOGRAPH 51--an eye-opening play about yet ANOTHER unsung woman's achievement: Rosalind Franklin, a scientist duped out of the NOBEL prize by Watson and Crick of double helix fame. I will now forever think of them as double-crossers. The play by Anna Ziegler tells the [...]
