From producing and starring in family holiday pageants as a child, to avid member of Broadway Across America and Show of the Month Club, Nancy has cultivated her love of the art and respect for the craft of theatre. She fulfilled a dream when she became an adult-onset tap dancer in the early 90's ("Gotta dance!"); she fulfills another by providing reviews for BroadwayWorld.com. Nancy is a member of the Boston Theater Critics Association, the organization which bestows the annual Elliot Norton Awards which honor the outstanding achievements of the Boston theater community, and she formerly served on the Executive Board of the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE). Nancy is an alumna of Syracuse University, has a graduate degree from Boston University, and is a retired Probation Officer-in-Charge in the Massachusetts Trial Court system.
The title may not grab you, but Director Daniel Gidron's production at the Lyric Stage will keep you laughing and guessing in Liz Duffy Adams' comic sex farce.
Walt McGough's new play feels both fresh and broken in, thanks to nurturing collaboration with Director David R. Gammons and talented team of actors and designers.
'Tiny Kushner: An Evening of Short Plays by Tony Kushner' opens the Zeitgeist Stage Company 2011-2012 season with a tasting menu of five short plays by the prize-winning playwright. Richard Nixon's analyst and Laura Bush are just two of the amazing real life characters who transition from the headlines to the stage.
In addition to the range, power, and magnificence of her incredible vocal instrument, it is Audra McDonald's stunning capacity for storytelling in her singing that places her in the upper stratum of concert performers.
At the end of the millennium, 'Rent' was a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner that went on to run for twelve years and 5,124 performances, making it the ninth-longest running Broadway musical. New Repertory Theatre stages an intimate and powerful production that shows the rock opera is still relevant with its message: No day but today.
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston makes a big splash with the Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' the stories of an adventure-seeking boy and a runaway slave as they journey down the mighty Mississippi River.
Farcical final production of Cape Playhouse's 85th season features a cast of summer stock regulars whose crack timing infuses Paul Slade Smith's play with laughter, warmth, and surprises.
Broadway veterans Rachel York and Graham Rowat star as the Marquise de Merteuil and her sparring partner Vicomte de Valmont in 'The Game,' a musical based on 'Les Liaisons Dangereuse,' on the Mainstage at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA
Williamstown Theatre Festival presents the American premiere of Tony Award-winner John Doyle's newest musical featuring dozens of unforgettable songs from the catalogue of Rodgers and Hart. Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie and Malcolm Gets lead a stellar ensemble of actor-musicians who tell a romantic story with voices and instruments, but with surprisingly little dancing.
John Kolvenbach's 2007 Olivier-nominated feel-good play underscores the importance of human connection and the magical powers of falling in love.
World premiere of Richard Vetere's play at Gloucester Stage is chock full of buried secrets, red herrings, and blind alleys.
In '1001,' now in its Boston premiere at Company One, playwright Jason Grote reinvents the collected works of 'One Thousand and One Nights' and creates a mash-up of two worlds, time-traveling between ancient Persia and 21st-century America in the throes of the 9/11 attack.
The Independent Drama Society closes shop after four years with 'The Good Doctor,' Neil Simon's 1973 play that marries his intelligence and wit with the realistic style of the stories of Anton Chekhov.
Back for a return engagement, the Montreal-based troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main performs jaw-dropping acrobatics and circus stunts that illustrate a variety of mental maladies.
Kander and Ebb musical revue 'The World Goes Round' is perfect entertainment for a warm summer night. Director/choreographer Ilyse Robbins puts a quintet of local favorites through their paces on a stroll down a memory lane lined with Broadway classics.
Frank Loesser's 1956 operatic musical, overflowing with melodic tunes and outstanding performances, is a showcase for the ways that a small, intimate stage can add depth and heart to an old chestnut.
A labor of love and a wonderful homage to the man who was an institution in Boston, Ken Dooley's 'The Auerbach Dynasty' offers a hefty helping of nostalgia alongside a strong portrayal of Arnold 'Red' Auerbach by Jeff Gill in a solo performance as the first coach of the Boston Celtics.
Excitement pulses through The Colonial Theatre from the opening notes of the Prologue and song after classic song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. With revamped book by Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins' choreography, the National Tour of the 2009 Broadway revival that ran for 748 performances settles into Boston for a four-week engagement.
There is nothin' like a dame and two of the best belters on Broadway are mixing it up with the Boston Pops Orchestra for two performances only under the baton of The New York Pops Music Director Steven Reineke. Stephanie J. Block and Julia Murney, affectionately tagged as 'Broadway Divas,' take turns thrilling the audience with their interpretations of some of the greats from the American Songbook, including a trio of songs from 'Wicked.'
Innovative ensemble supplies a breath of fresh air and innocence with the world premiere of 'The Mountain Song,' an original folk tale that blends live music, puppetry, shadow play, and clever lighting effects for a family-friendly theatrical entertainment.
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