BWW Review: WOMEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN by Asian American Theatre Artists Of Boston
In Women Behind the Curtain, Michael Lin weaves a narrative about a French spy, Renee, on a mission in Cold War Moscow.
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BWW Review: Arlekin Players' STATE VS NATASHA BANINA: Live Theater on Zoom
Fresh on the heels of a solid showing at the virtual 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, where the Boston Theater Critics Association recognized their achievements during the abbreviated 2019-2020 season with ten nominations and four wins, the Arlekin Players Theatre boldly launches a new production i
BWW Review: KIND THING; NICE THING at Homesick Play Project
My immediate response to this reading of the play, which had its premiere at Tufts University unfortunately canceled, is that I would love to see how it would change were the actors cast actually artists who use they/them pronouns in their lives.
BWW Review: BELOVED KING: A QUEER BIBLE MUSICAL at Oberon
The score is catchy, folksy, and declamatory in a way that fuses rock sounds with medieval sensibilities, and Kaedon Gray as the prophet, Samuel, begins the show with an expository narration worthy of a mystery play.
BWW Review: TORREY PINES at ArtsEmerson
Beginning in darkness with the sounds of the sea, we launch into a film that directly serves as a companion to a well-constructed soundtrack.
BWW Review: THE CHILDREN: Cleaning Up Our Own Mess
The Boston premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's 2018 Tony Award-nominated play THE CHILDREN at SpeakEasy Stage Company is an affecting drama, thanks to a combination of the playwright's excellence at her craft, Director Bryn Boice's focus, and the trio of Elliot Norton Award-winning actors whose portrayals c
BWW Review: REVOLUTION: DANCE ON THE EDGE at Boston Ballet
Boston Ballet's rEVOLUTION: Dance on the Edge features three works by pivotal choreographers which stretch the label 'contemporary' to its breaking point.
BWW Review: THE TREASURER at Lyric Stage Company of Boston
For playwright Max Posner, sitting down to write The Treasurer must have been a feat of de-centering oneself.
BWW Review: WOLF PLAY at Company One Theatre
For a long time within their history, Company One has cornered the market in Boston for selecting those cutting-edge new works that are able to effectively spark conversations and juxtaposing them against each other in ways that are both productive and incendiary.
BWW Review: 10 X 10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at Barrington Stage Company Offers A Little Something for Everyone.
With costumes by Trinity Koch, lighting by Lucas Pawelski, sound by Alex Sovronsky, stage management by Rachel Lynne Harper, and line production by Nora Zahn, ten new plays presented by six fine performers under the guidance of two strong directors, the 10 x 10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL continues at Barri
BWW Review: HAMLET 360: THY FATHER'S SPIRIT at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
It is interesting to look at the history of art and entertainment by analyzing the innovations which have been deemed exclusively novelties and written off as fleeting trends by their contemporaries.
BWW Review: MEAN GIRLS at Citizens Bank Opera House
With friends like The Plastics, who needs enemies? That's the basic premise for the surprisingly fresh and sometimes scathingly funny high school musical MEAN GIRLS written by Emmy Award winner Tina Fey based on her 2004 hit film.
BWW Review: DETROIT RED at ArtsEmerson
In David Mamet's book On Directing Film, he breaks down the way a linear narrative can be conveyed by placing images in direct contrast to each other.
BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Celebrity Series Of Boston
Sutton Foster, since her Tony Award-winning break through as the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, has been one of the select leading ladies who have held a decades-spanning monopoly on Broadway's biggest musicals.
BWW Review: KING JOHN at Praxis Stage
Why isn't this show an impersonation of cool even if it falls into some trappings of the dreaded 'regional theatre' scene? I think it's because Praxis Stage is, at its heart, genuinely concerned with the prospects of theatre that every other theatre in this city needs to purport to care about in ord
BWW Review: HUNDRED DAYS: Every Song Tells a Story
HUNDRED DAYS and the intimate Black Box at the Umbrella Stage Company in Concord are a perfect match, not unlike Abigail and Shaun Bengson, the couple whose true story of their romantic and musical journey is told in this original song cycle.
BWW Review: BRIGHT HALF LIFE at Actors' Shakespeare Project
Queer couples in the greater Boston area: if you are looking for a mushy, warm, romantic gay love story with a backbone and plenty of heartbreak that will make you want to cuddle up with your partner between now and Valentine's Day weekend, you couldn't do much better than Actors' Shakespeare Projec
BWW Review: LAST CATASTROPHIST: Don't They Know, It's the End of the World?
David Valdes has seen the future and it doesn't look good.
BWW Review: BOOM at Wellesley Repertory Theatre
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's boom was the most produced American play of 2010.
BWW Review: SMOKED OYSTERS at TC Squared Theatre Company
One of the inescapable pillars of the human condition is the universal narcissism with which we consume media.
BWW Review: A BRONX TALE at Hanover Theatre In Worcester, MA
If you like your coming-of-age-on-the-mean-streets stories served with an extra side of red sauce, then Chazz Palminteri's semi-autobiographical A BRONX TALE is for you.
BWW Review: PASS OVER: Poetic, Profane, and Powerful Drama of Search for a Promised Land
SpeakEasy Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's PASS OVER, in a co-production with The Front Porch Arts Collective.
BWW Review: MAYTAG VIRGIN: Folding Laundry, Mending Hearts at Merrimack Rep
MAYTAG VIRGIN is a slice of life, character-driven romantic comedy about two forty-something school teachers, both widowed, who meet cute in their connecting yards in a fictional town in Alabama.
BWW Review: CATS at Citizens Bank Opera House
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The Norwegians Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (9/04-10/04) |
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The Nutcracker The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (11/27-11/29) |
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Hamlet Tina Packer Playhouse (8/13-8/30) |
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By Any Other Name SpeakEasy Stage Company (5/07-5/29) |
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Gunhild Carling at City Winery Boston City Winery Boston (9/16-9/16) |
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Floyd's Row at Harmony on the Green in Lexington Harmony on the Green (3/13-3/13) |
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Golden Girls The Laughs Continue Academy of Music Theatre (11/18-11/18) VIDEOS |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/28-11/28) VIDEOS |
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Martha Graham Dance Company The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (4/24-4/24) |
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Sasha Velour: Travesty The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (9/26-9/26) |