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Review: The Huntington's OEDIPUS EL REY Turns Tragedy Into Triumph
Playwright Luis Alfaro aimed high when he decided to bring Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” from 429 BC into the 21st century with “Oedipus El Rey,” his contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio....
Review: JON BATISTE Brings His Musical Genius to BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall
What did our critic think of JON BATISTE BRINGS HIS MUSICAL GENIUS TO BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall?...
Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! is Anything But at Lyric Stage Boston
When it comes to playwrights and poets, William Shakespeare towers above everyone else who has ever put pen to paper. After all, he is the greatest writer ever in the English language, and his 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and three long narrative poems have been translated into virtually every living lang...
Review: Music Carries the Day in The Umbrella Stage Company's HAIRSPRAY
In most, if not all, other mountings of “Hairspray: The Broadway Musical,” Tracy Turnblad is tucked under her bedcovers when audiences first see the young heroine, ready to show off her high-teased bouffant and let loose with the first notes of the rousing opener, “Good Morning, Baltimore.”...
Review: August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN at Actors' Shakespeare Project Has Glint of Greatness
What did our critic think of GEM OF THE OCEAN at Actors' Shakespeare Project?...
Review: Dramatic Musical SWEPT AWAY Stays Afloat with Score by The Avett Brothers
The musical “Swept Away” tells the story of four whalers shipwrecked off New Bedford in 1888, making it especially resonant for local audiences, who can experience the musical drama in a well crafted New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company in the Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwo...
Review: WHO IS EARTHA MAE? at The Brickbox Theater
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you say the name Eartha Kitt? Those of us who are even remotely familiar with the late singer-dancer-actress will most likely say Catwoman, the iconic feline femme fatale she portrayed in the 1967 season of the ‘Batman’ television series, or her o...
Review: Matthew Lombardo's WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL Slays with Laughter
Seven years ago, an already hot summer in Boston heated up even more during a pre-Broadway tryout of a truncated version of playwright Matthew Lombardo’s “Tea at Five” at the Huntington Theatre when its star, Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway, was fired after allegations that she physically an...
Review: Eddie Shields Excels in BREAKING THE CODE
What did our critic think of BREAKING THE CODE at Central Square Theater?...
Review: Lyric Stage Boston's Latest Is ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS
What did our critic think of ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS at The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston?...
Review: Full House Enjoys AN EVENING WITH DIONNE WARWICK at Groton Hill Music Center
As Dionne Warwick took the stage at Groton Hill Music Center in Groton recently, before she had sung a single word, she was met by a rousing standing ovation. It was clear from the get-go that the capacity audience knew they were in the presence of a legend....
Review: Nothing to Protest in SUFFS
What did our critic think of SUFFS at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...
Review: THE ANTIQUITIES Looks Back from the Future at SpeakEasy Stage
Playwright Jordan Harrison’s 2025 drama “The Antiquities” – being given a fine New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company at the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts through March 28 – uses history to explore where things went wrong....
Review: WAIT UNTIL DARK Brings Spine-Tingling Thrills to Stoneham
What did our critic think of WAIT UNTIL DARK at Greater Boston Stage Company?...
Review: Umbrella Stage Company's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Keeps Harper Lee Classic Vividly Alive
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about the fictional small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the Depression-era South grappling with violence and racial inequality, along with issues of class, courage, and compassion, is a classic of modern American literature...
Review: Apollinaire Theatre's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
What did our critic think of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Apollinaire Theatre Company?...
Review: Aimee Doherty Hits Homer with PENELOPE
At this time last year, the American Repertory Theater was premiering a stirring new dramatic adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by actor and playwright Kate Hamill, which moved back and forth between King Odysseus and Queen Penelope during a three-hour production with two intermissions....
Review: 15TH ANNUAL 10X10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at Barrington Stage Company
In the past, I have compared the 10x10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL to dining at a Tapas restaurant, and it is. The production offers theatre goers a variety of content in small sized servings, to explore, share, and shake off a bit of mid-winter blues in anticipation of the bountiful season ahead. You may see...
Review: LITTLE WOMEN at Actors' Shakespeare Project
Louisa May Alcott’s novel “Little Women” has proven so enduringly popular since it was first published in 1868 that it has been turned into two plays, a musical, an opera, 11 different feature films and TV movies, three Japanese anime versions, and even a 12-part Korean streaming series....
Review: A Startling THE MODERATE at Central Square Theater
What did our critic think of THE MODERATE at Central Square Theater?...
Review: AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Emerson Colonial Theatre
What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...
Review: A Thrilling JOB at SpeakEasy Stage Company
What did our critic think of JOB at Roberts Studio Theatre?...
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC is Gorgeously Sung at the Citizens Opera House
What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Citizens Opera House?...
Review: NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH SETH MACFARLANE AND THE BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall
Seth MacFarlane was in great voice when he took the stage at Symphony Hall recently for his sold-out New Year’s Eve concert with the Boston Pops, even if it wasn’t his most familiar voice....
Review: A Taut IS THIS A ROOM at Apollinaire Theatre Company
What did our critic think of IS THIS A ROOM at Apollinaire Theatre Company?...
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