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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.
'42nd Street' Diverts in Downtown Stoneham
May 22, 2011
May 22, 2011
Ilyse Robbins adds Director to her resumé with impressive staging of classic Broadway musical. Her choreography is well-served by a talented troupe of tapping chorus boys and girls. Local favorite Kathy St. George gives leading lady Dorothy Brock a makeover.
Groucho and Harpo Give 'Animal Crackers' Its Bite
May 18, 2011
May 18, 2011
Marx Brothers 1928 Broadway musical can still make 'em laugh, but is at its best when Minnie's boys are upstaging everyone else.
The Boston Pops and Linda Eder Pay Tribute to Judy Garland For Season Opener
May 12, 2011
May 12, 2011
A sure sign of spring in Boston is the opening of the 126th season of the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall
A Toast to 'The Drowsy Chaperone!'
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
SpeakEasy Stage Company concludes its 20th anniversary season with regional premiere of 2006 Tony Award-winning musical within a comedy. Thanks to a who's who of local talent, it is one hour and forty minutes of entertainment that will make you anything but drowsy.
Paula Plum Rules as Cleopatra
May 4, 2011
May 4, 2011
Actors' Shakespeare Project inaugurates The Modern Theatre with William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra, a treatise for the ages on love, passion, greatness, and political folly.
'A Picasso' Searches for Authenticity
April 26, 2011
April 26, 2011
Merrimack Repertory Theatre wraps up 32nd season with regional premiere which imagines a confrontation between the famous painter and a Nazi functionary bent on destroying his work.
'The Book of Grace' Is a Worthy Tome
April 23, 2011
April 23, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzanne Lori-Parks asks you to examine your own 'Book of Grace' and look for the evidence of good things in your life. This Company One production is one of them.
Eruptions Abound in 'Walking the Volcano'
April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
Jon Lipsky's final play staged with honest, compelling performances by Boston Playwrights' Theatre and Boston Center for American Performance
Kurz, Gleason Sparkle in 'Sons of the Prophet'
April 15, 2011
April 15, 2011
New play by Stephen Karam worthy of hoopla in Huntington Theatre Company world premiere production at Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Peter DuBois
'9 Circles' Concludes Run at Publick Theatre
April 10, 2011
April 10, 2011
Award-winning play by Bill Cain, the founder of the Boston Shakespeare Company, featured tour de force performance by Jimi Stanton with strong support from Will McGarrahan and Amanda Collins, under the direction of Eric Engel.
Celebrity Series of Boston Presents Patti LuPone, 'The Gypsy in My Soul'
April 4, 2011
April 4, 2011
You've seen her Tony Award-winning performances on the Broadway stage; you've watched her on the small screen; you've read her best-selling autobiography, 'Patti LuPone: A Memoir;' big thanks to the Celebrity Series of Boston for bringing her to Symphony Hall
'BROKE-OLOGY' - A Study of a Family
March 28, 2011
March 28, 2011
Lyric Stage Company's Boston premiere of first play by up-and-comer Nathan Louis Jackson purports to be about the science of being financially broke, but exposes the fault lines within a loving African-American family and turns out to be about all of us.
Let Your Freak Flag Fly at 'Hair' at Colonial Theatre
March 26, 2011
March 26, 2011
The overall experience of seeing 'Hair' is exhilarating, as if some pent-up emotion lying dormant for decades is finally being let out into the air, but this revival feels inauthentic, a little like the Disney ride version of the decade and cultural upheaval that changed our society in so many important ways.
New Rep's 'Dollhouse' Solidly Constructed
March 20, 2011
March 20, 2011
Theresa Rebeck's contemporary adaptation of Ibsen classic is rich with timely themes, and features solid direction, smart design elements, and compelling performances
'Educating Rita' Merits High Grades
March 17, 2011
March 17, 2011
Award-winning Director Maria Aitken returns to the Huntington Theatre Company with Willy Russell's award-winning comedy about a working-class hairdresser seeking a university education and her frustrated poet/professor charged with helping her change her life. Both are transformed in unexpected ways in this play that mixes humor, pathos, and heart.
Neil LaBute Creates Reasons to Feel Yucky
March 16, 2011
March 16, 2011
SpeakEasy Stage Company completes LaBute's "Beauty Trilogy" with New England premiere of 'reasons to be pretty.' Director Paul Melone is a master of these character-driven dramas, leaving no stone unturned to portray the unattractive obsessions of four young beauty-seekers.
'My Wonderful Day' Vintage Ayckbourn
March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011
Zeitgeist Stage Company presents New England premiere of playwright Alan Ayckbourn's 70th play. Lead by 10-year old Hyacinth Tauriac (alternating with Alanna Logan) in a star turn, talented ensemble portrays adults behaving badly, as seen through the eyes of a child who puts it all down in her homework essay called 'My Wonderful Day.'
Unusual Guests at 'The Hotel Nepenthe'
March 6, 2011
March 6, 2011
Playwright John Kuntz challenges you to connect the dots in his new one-act play, the second of three in Actors' Shakespeare Project's Winter Festival at The Storefront in Davis Square.
New Rep's 'Dollhouse' Solidly Constructed
March 4, 2011
March 4, 2011
Theresa Rebeck's contemporary adaptation of Ibsen classic is rich with timely themes, and features solid direction, smart design elements, and compelling performances
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