Get a ticket fast-- these will not last. The Huntington has wrapped up its season by sending us off to Italy with its most elegant production yet— a stunning, full-throated, openhearted, operatic sweep of a musical, visually and vocally sumptuous! I was completely enveloped by THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. L to R: Sarah-Anne [...]
I've seen a heap o' histrionics lately, and despite a few purported hits in town, nothing quite hit a home run for me-- though some came close: THE HUMANS at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre comes trailing a 2016 Tony Award for Stephen Karam's play as well as a slew of critics awards and a [...]
DON'T MISS the Huntington Theatre Company's "RIPCORD" which just opened at the Calderwood Pavilion and has already been extended through July 2! David Lindsay-Abaire's comedy is set in that most hilarious and freewheeling of all environments--an assisted living complex. Hang on, it involves two elderly women who find themselves roommates, but one of them can't stand the other. The sour-pussed Abby (Nancy E. Carroll) [...]
She's won two TONY AWARDS and an EMMY for her role as President Allison Taylor on "24" and this year she's our GUEST OF HONOR at Boston's version of the Tony's: The 35th Elliot Norton Awards will honor CHERRY JONES! TONY AWARD WINNER CHERRY JONES It's all happening on Monday May 15 at the Huntington Theatre Company’s [...]
A few bedraggled Kit Kat Chorines milled around onstage as the audience filed in to see the iconic Kander and Ebb musical that had its 1966 pre-broadway premiere right here in Boston. Now, more than a half century later the Boston Opera House welcomes the Roundabout Theatre Company's pivotal Tony Award-winning production of CABARET -- and trust me: this is no walk in the park, old chum, not [...]
FENCES-- the seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning work by August Wilson, one of a decade-by-decade 10-play cycle about the black experience in America--will rattle your bones. I've seen the great James Earl Jones do it onstage in a fearsome, monumental performance. Now I've seen two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington do it on the big screen and my cage has been rattled and shattered [...]
Last week was a big disappointment on the theater scene for me-- two plays I couldn't wait to see came up short. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS which just opened its national tour onstage at the new Boch Center's Wang Theatre (through November 6) is gorgeous to look at with great choreography, sets, costumes, and music-- but a book that [...]
It was nominated for ten and won four Tony awards including "Best Musical" and just arrived at Boston's Shubert Theatre (only until 10/23!) on its first national tour: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER! It's a howlingly funny, sexy, saucy, romantic musical comedy-mystery-farce with a dazzling script, score, sets, costumes, and performances! This is one of the most entertaining evenings at [...]
I have a new favorite musical and it's called MATILDA THE MUSICAL!!! This literate, darkly funny, empowering, and bizarrely inventive Tony award-winner just hit the Boston Opera House in its first national tour-- and don't you dare miss it! MATILDA THE MUSICAL is based on Roald Dahl's best-selling novel, and captures the writer's strange and shadowy sensibility, as [...]
MUST DO this weekend: Head on up to Gloucester Stage and treat yourself to their 37th season opener, Tony Award-winner Peter Shaffer's slight but delicious LETTICE AND LOVAGE about two women who forge a friendship as they mount an attack on the modern world with their love of role-playing and romance! This amusing bauble of a play is polished to perfection by a dazzling [...]
