Most of the productions I'll review over the next few days will end this weekend MAY 7--See them before they close! Beginning with: BECKETT IN BRIEF: A stunning troika of Beckett plays brought to luminous life by an equally stunning trinity of actors led by the incandescent Will Lyman who appears in each. Lyman's extraordinary elegance, timing, [...]
OH GOD--A man walks into a psychologist's office. He needs to talk and she's the one. Oh...and he's God. As in the deity. As in The Word--first, last, and always. Presented by Israeli Stage and written by the late Anat Gov in a season of all female playwrights, "Oh God" cracks open this borderline blasphemous exclamation and releases [...]
(l to r) Regan (Jeanine Kane), Cordelia (Libby McKnight), King Lear (Will Lyman), Regan (Deb Martin)Photo:Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures It was a sweltering night when I saw Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's latest FREE Shakespeare on the Common, but so absorbing and mighty was Will Lyman’s performance as KING LEAR that I hardly noticed the elements, save [...]
OMG. I just saw what has to be one of the most exciting new plays, productions, and ensembles of the year--by the excellent actor Steven Barkhimer called WINDOWMEN at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. The whole thing takes place in one dingy room of the wholesale lower Manhattan fish market known to the world as the Fulton [...]
The 31st annual ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS honoring Boston theater was one of the best shows ever! As president of The Boston Theater Critics Association I was honored to emcee this annual event at Boston's Paramount Center (5/13) where 24 winners took home their "Norties"-- the coveted Elliot Norton Awards! BROADWAY ICON CHITA RIVERA ACCEPTS LIFETIME [...]
Can't wait another minute to tell you about the Nora Theatre Company's absorbing world premiere production of OPERATION EPSILON by Alan Brody-- the true tale of the top ten nuclear scientists in Nazi Germany captured by the Allies at the end of WWII and hidden away on an elegant English estate. Why? To find out [...]
