Interview: Brian Stokes Mitchell Talks KEITH LOCKHART 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION at Tanglewood
Brian Stokes Mitchell says he doesn’t recall exactly when it was that he met Keith Lockhart, but he’ll never forget his first impression of the Boston Pops conductor....
Interview: Paul Michael Valley Talks AS YOU LIKE IT and Why 'All The World's a Stage.'
Actor Paul Michael Valley is nothing if not versatile. In his almost 40-year career, the Whitefish, Wisconsin, native has earned a Tony nomination – in his Broadway debut, for playing Thomas Jefferson in the 1997 Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the musical “1776.”...
Interview: Lucas Hallauer Feels The Power of Love in BACK TO THE FUTURE
Actor, singer, and dancer Lucas Hallauer says he has always been a fan of time travel, so when he saw a film about the subject as a child, it got his attention right away....
Interview: Richard Topol Talks Arlekin Players Theatre's OUR CLASS
Arlekin Players Theatre’s production of “Our Class” led the winners at this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards, presented at New York University on May 4, where the play, by Tadeusz Słobodzianek and adapted by Norman Allen, was honored as Best Revival....
Interview: Maureen Keiller Tells of Being Invited to THE PROM at Wheelock Family Theatre
Talent and versatility are just two of the reasons that Maureen Keiller is one of greater Boston’s busiest performers....
Interview: Kathy St. George Talks Acting on Broadway, Understudying a Soap Star and Being Honored at Elliot Norton Awards
Kathy St. George – who will receive the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from the Boston Theater Critics Association at the 42nd annual Elliot Norton Awards on June 2 at the Huntington Theatre – is that rare breed, a show business quadruple threat....
Interview: Aimee Doherty says HELLO, DOLLY! in Her First Jerry Herman Musical
Classic American theater composers like Leonard Bernstein, John Kander, and Stephen Sondheim have been good to Aimee Doherty – giving her a wide range of characters to play and songs to sing. She has returned the favor by giving standout performances in their musicals that have made her one of the...
Interview: George Takei Takes a Star Trek Into MUSIC OF THE COSMOS With Boston Pops
When it comes to “Star Trek,” George Takei has been there from the beginning, when the now iconic “Theme from Star Trek,” by composer Alexander Courage, first invited television viewers to go “where no man has gone before.”...
Interview: Conductor Keith Lockhart Talks His 30th Year With BOSTON POPS
The Boston Pops will once again turn to the music and stars of Broadway when the orchestra opens its 139th spring season at Symphony Hall on May 8 with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winner Cynthia Erivo (“The Color Purple”) as special guest....
Interview: Carolee Carmello Comes to Boston in KIMBERLY AKIMBO
Stage star Carolee Carmello has played a wide range of roles in her career – from “Cordelia, the kosher caterer,” in the original Broadway production of “Falsettos,” Lucille Frank in the Broadway premiere of “Parade,” Donna Sheridan in “Mamma Mia!” Dolly Gallagher Levi in “Hello,...
Interview: Westfield Native Joshua Michael Burrage Talks BOOP! The Musical
Few cultural icons have held the public’s attention for as long as the one and only Betty Boop. And now, the wide-eyed vixen has branched out from animated films and television to live-action Broadway in BOOP! The Musical....
Interview: Tym Brown Plays the Principal Role in MEAN GIRLS
And the Plastics of North Shore High School – the self-obsessed, their-way-or-the-highway trio of “mean girls” at the center of the eponymous hit 2004 feature-film comedy, the 2018 Broadway musical it inspired, and the 2024 feature film based on the musical – have done just that, becoming ...
Interview: Kristine Nielsen Talks Summers in Cotuit and Appearing in a Broadway SMASH
Kristine Nielsen has made her name on Broadway playing roles in all kinds of comedies and dramas, but only a very few musicals. She’s changing that up this season, however, portraying Susan Proctor, an Actors’ Studio teacher and confidante to Ivy Lynn, a Broadway star preparing to play Marilyn M...
Interview: Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton Talks Boston Lyric Opera's Production of CAROUSEL
The legend of Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre stems in part from the many pre-Broadway tryouts that have and continue to take place there, including not one but two now-iconic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals, 1943’s “Oklahoma!” – when it was still being called “Away W...
Interview: David Mendizábal Talks Directing DON'T EAT THE MANGOS at The Huntington
In playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s “Don’t Eat the Mangos,” three Puerto Rican sisters are living outside San Juan as a hurricane approaches and family tumult causes secrets and ugly truths to spill out....
Interview: Melody Munitz Talks Playing Wednesday in THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Anyone familiar with the mysterious and spooky, not to mention altogether ooky, Addams Family will tell you that Morticia and Gomez’s daughter Wednesday is known not only for her morbid nature, but also for her ever-present and carefully protected pigtails....
Interview: Waltham Native Krystal Hernandez Makes Broadway Debut After Open Call Audition
Waltham native Krystal Hernandez made her Broadway debut on February 19, taking over the coveted role of Anna of Cleves, one of the wives of Henry VIII, in the New York production of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy “SIX,” now at the Lena Horne Theatre....
Interview: Playwright Sarah Ruhl Talks Bringing Vivaldi & Ruhl's THE SEASONS to Boston Lyric Opera
Growing up outside Chicago, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl (“The Clean House,” “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)”) would listen to a cassette of Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” on holiday drives with her family to her father’s home state of Iowa....
Interview: Gerard Alessandrini talks spoofing Sondheim and more in FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: MERRILY WE STOLE A SONG
Writer and director Gerard Alessandrini, the comedy mastermind behind “Forbidden Broadway,” has long taken his own Broadway fandom one step further, though, creating iconic parodies of stars like Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli, Yul Brynner, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, M...
Interview: Playwright, Actor and Producer Jordan E. Cooper Talks AIN'T NO MO' and More
Actor, playwright, producer, and director Jordan E. Cooper is on a roll. The Emmy-nominated television sitcom “The Ms. Pat Show,” which he created, co-executive produces and directs, premiered on BET+ in 2021 and is now in its fifth season on the streaming service....
Interview: You Should Hear How Melissa Manchester Talks About FUNNY GIRL
Having landed more than a dozen hits – “Midnight Blue,” “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” and “Through the Eyes of Love” among them – on the Billboard charts in her long recording career, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester k...
Interview: Christine Goerke Talks Boston Lyric Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra Collaboration on DIE TOTE STADT
Goerke will be doing just that in “Die Tote Stadt” (“The Dead City”) – composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s poignant opera about the struggle with haunting memories of a lost loved one, that captures the final chapter of the Romantic era – which will be presented by the Boston Symphony O...
Interview: Lea Salonga Talks 'Sounding Joy' with the Boston Pops
Lea Salonga, who makes her home in New York, was in Los Angeles recently when she took time out for a telephone call to discuss her new holiday album, her debut with the Boston Pops, and more....
Interview: Maurice Emmanuel Parent tells of Front Porch Arts Collective's HOLIDAY FEAST Where Sitcoms are on the Menu
For the second straight year, Front Porch Arts Collective, Boston’s leading Black theater company, is presenting a “Holiday Feast” of staged readings of Christmas episodes from classic Black sitcoms, at Central Square Theater, December 12–14....
Interview: Sarah Milnamow Heads Home for the Holidays in DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL!
Actor and singer Sarah Milnamow grew up in Northborough watching the classic animated television special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” every year....
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