Review: FAIRVIEW at SpeakEasy Stage Forces Audiences to Look Inside Themselves and Reflect
'I'm uncomfortable' was the thought I had to myself after leaving FAIRVIEW.
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Review: THE 12TH ANNUAL 10 X 10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at Barrington Stage Company Offers Berkshire Audiences a Sure Sign the 2023 Season is On the Way.
The company and seemingly all involved with BSC’s 10X10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL have done an admirable job creating and presenting an event that is enjoyable, relatable, entertaining, and thought provoking.
Review: The Huntington's THE ART OF BURNING Could Use a Bit More Fire
The trend of modern plays seems to be that playwrights a trimming down their plays, often to ninety minutes or less.
Review: TORCH SONG at Moonbox Productions
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Review: LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Have there ever been such devoted sisters as the four March girls, birthed by Louisa May Alcott in her postbellum semi-autobiographical novel LITTLE WOMEN? Director Ilyse Robbins shows her abiding affection for the story with her devotion to its heart and soul on display in the production of the 200
REVIEW: THE EDGAR ALLAN POE DOUBLEHEADER
If you have yet to reach your fright limit for the Halloween season, you still have two chances to experience chills of the dramatic variety at THT Rep at the BrickBox Theater in Worcester.
REVIEW: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Two hundred years after Washington Irving introduced the little hamlet of Sleepy Hollow and its superstitious denizens to the canon of American literature, the legend remains among the most enduring of stories that capture the imagination of adults and children alike, inspire questions about the sup
Review: AUGUST WILSON'S JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE was the first Wilson play produced at the Huntington in 1986, the beginning of a 19-year relationship that saw all ten of his American Century Cycle plays chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century performed on the local stage.
Review: SEASCAPES at Berkshire Theatre Group
Typically, I don’t care much for works that fall into the realm of existentialism, theatre of the absurd, and the like.
Review: GOLDEN LEAF RAGTIME BLUES at Shakespeare & Company
GOLDEN LEAF RAGTIME BLUES does provide a pleasant hour and 20 minutes of pleasant entertainment free of politics, angst and the chance to sit back and relax, and focus on something completely different for a bit which most of us can use and appreciate these days.
Review: ALL OF ME at Barrington Stage Company
ALL OF ME is all kinds of good.
Review: JERKER at The Provincetown Theater
What at first sounds like an evening of gratuitous nudity for the pleasure of gay men actually turns into quite the opposite.
Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Barrington Stage Company
Where most productions paint the duo as downtrodden and rather depressed, here the two main characters are painted with s sense of comedic timing and light-heartedness that almost seems choregraphed.
Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Shakespeare & Company
Each player has moments of strength, weakness, anguish, despair, all presented well individually.
Review: DRACULA at Berkshire Theatre Group
As is often the case the BTG production is a high-quality production where seemingly everyone involved has played their role and done their work well.
Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Barrington Stage Company
There are a few technical glitches that presented themselves to a keen eye, but virtually something for everyone to like.
Review: PIPPIN: Growing Up Is Hard To Do
The second and final production of Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston’s 2022 season is Stephen Schwartz’s PIPPIN, originally produced on the Broadway stage in 1972 with direction and choreography by Bob Fosse, and revived/reimagined in 2013 by Diane Paulus at the American Repertory Theater b
Review: WE ARE CONTINUOUS at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Simon and his mother, Ora, have always been close.
Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Berkshire Theatre Group
There is not one single word of spoken dialogue.
Review: ANNA IN THE TROPICS at Barrington Stage Company
ANNA IN THE TROPICS is something like a well curated and presented collection of themes that are both timeless and universal.
Review: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at The Emerson Colonial Theatre
Biographical jukebox musicals are becoming more and more common.
Review: MAN OF GOD at Williamstown Theatre Festival
The relevancy to current issues such as Me Too, Feminism, Sexism, Abuse of Power, Patriarchal Systemic Inequality, Masculine Toxicity, My Body – My Rights, See Something – Say Something … abound.
Review: WEST SIDE STORY: You've got to be taught
What did our critic think of WEST SIDE STORY at Reagle Music Theatre Of Greater Boston: There's a new spring in the step of Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston in Waltham.
Review: ABCD at Barrington Stage Company
At two very different public schools in the same city — an underserved school on the verge of shutdown, and an elite magnet program nearby — pressure to perform well on standardized tests drives students and teachers to compromise their integrity.
Review: American Repertory Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company's 1776 is a Master Class in Musical Theatre Revivals
It is no surprise to anyone that we are living in an incredibly politically charged time.
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Worcester Youth Orchestras Auditions: Travel to Europe Mechanics Hall (8/25-8/25) |
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Matteo Lane Provincetown Town Hall (8/07-8/07) |
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The Borromeo: Luminous Beauty Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (8/07-8/07) |
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Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR. AND Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 JR. North Shore Music Theatre (7/23-7/24) |
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Downtown with Imani Winds: Amplify Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (8/03-8/03) |
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Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene (the Original Audrey) Emerson Colonial Theatre (8/28-8/28) |
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Meet the Cartozians Boston Center for the Arts (2/18-3/21) |
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Moon Over Buffalo-Cackeling Comical Cabaret - 08 August 2026 Paris Cabaret Starline Room Dinner Theatre (8/08-8/08) |
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Huntington Theatre (10/08-11/08) |
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Mamma Mia! Boston Opera House (4/13-4/25) |