What could be more fitting for this summer's FREE annual Commonwealth Shakespeare production on the common, than THE TEMPEST? In a season of storms: climatic, pandemic, and politic, and their cross currents: moral ambiguity, familial friction, and racial strife, the brilliant John Douglas Thompson and company deliver a masterpiece of rough magic and earthy wisdom [...]
This weekend is a mixed bag and involves Mick Jagger and William Shakespeare. If only they had worked together. I couldn't wait to see the THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY a Sony Classics release beginning August 7 at West Newton Theater. For this movie critic/arts reporter, what could be better than an art heist film starring [...]
From the minute you enter the American Repertory Theater mainstage in Cambridge, MA. there's a tingle in the air, like the one that Shakespeare's Prospero must have felt when years before, exiled by his usurping brother, he and his infant daughter Miranda washed up shipwrecked on the shores of a magical island. This production of [...]
