I returned from Southeast Asia apparently dragging the heat and humidity with me but absolutely unable to get the last thing I saw onstage before I left out of my head: BLACK SWAN! Melanie Moore (Nina)/Credit: Hawver and Hall This world premiere production still onstage until July 12 at the American Rep Theater, [...]
Get the New Year off to an upbeat, feel-good, rousing start and, if you haven't already, do yourself a favor and see REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES! Head to the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge for a world premiere musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Sergio Trujillo who keeps this 2 hour 40 minute production [...]
The American Repertory Theater's world premiere "musical reckoning" of Melville's masterpiece MOBY DICK is nothing to sneeze at. And yet, that's what I did in the penultimate moments of this 3 1/2 hour magnum opus; my attempt to stifle a freakish, out of the blue, nasal explosion backfired, and to my utter shock and awe, [...]
The evening seared my soul: Langston Hughes' poem THE BLACK CLOWN made its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater this week, awesome, painful, and inspiring word made flesh. The piece adapted by performer Davone Tines (who first wowed me in CROSSING) and composer Michael Schachter is a brilliant collage of word, music, and movement, [...]
I left the show trailing streamers, confetti and what was left of my breath. The world premiere, Broadway-bound musical MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL has just reopened America's oldest and most beautiful theatre, Boston's Emerson Colonial -- and what a rebirth! The show is a no holds barred, dazzling live theatrical reinvention of Baz Luhrman's Oscar-nominated [...]
