The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Boston.
While the Earth didn't exactly move during the national tour stop of BEAUTIFUL at the Hanover Theater in Worcester this week, this more successful than most biographical jukebox musical did set off an occasional temblor.
Over the span of two hours, TIME STANDS STILL explores the relationship between the individuals and the two couples at a crucial juncture in each of their lives.
Just as the centuries-old spirituals sung by American slaves created community and gave voice to the thoughts and emotions they were forced to repress, so too the music in CHOIR BOY serves to give hope and healing to the young men struggling to find and express their true identities at a boarding sc
There's more gray than black and white in the scintillating new play THE PURISTS written by Dan McCabe and directed by Billy Porter.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS is a play that will make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings, teach you to appreciate little things while not sweating the small stuff, and, ultimately, make you glad you decided to spend 85 minutes at the theater.
Playwright Patrick Gabridge, the 2018-2019 Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-In-Residence, is presenting THE AMERICA PLAYS, the second series of site-specific plays, following THE NATURE PLAYS produced in June.
LAST NIGHT AT BOWL-MOR LANES is a nostalgia piece in more ways than one.
Rachel Bertone has set the bar high for the 45th anniversary season of the Lyric Stage Company with her pitch perfect production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Gloucester Stage Company is the first theater in the country to produce THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT following its SRO limited run on Broadway.
Director-choreographer Kyle Pleasant is back with Peregrine Theatre Ensemble's main stage summer show – and he has not come to play.
Whether you know 'whodunnit' or not, you're bound to enjoy this rollicking MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS adapted by Ken Ludwig at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
Felder's performance is sublime.
Sometimes all you need to lift your spirits is a good old-fashioned star-driven musical comedy, and, boy, does the national tour of HELLO, DOLLY! with Betty Buckley deliver.
One should plant their tongue firmly in cheek for this one.
The brothers reflect on their lives revealing bad parenting, neglect, abandonment and a series of life events that have left the two relatively young men badly broken.
The cast includes Martin Jason Asprey (Mr.
Directed by Gregg Edelman, this production features Carla Duren (Colleen Haran), Carson Elrod (Glen Geer), Penny Fuller (Lucinda Royal Scott), Samantha Hill (Summer Oliver), Dee Hoty (Joan Stern), and Count Stoval (Hal Polick).
In the summer of 1983, Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein put on a show that was light years ahead of the zeitgeist, vis-a-vis the awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ people in America, and about twenty years before the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Yes, the setting and backdrop for the events that play out is recovery.
This production with the new translation is notably fresh and remarkably relevant.
Jersey Boys opened this week to one of the most enthusiastic welcomes I have ever witnessed at NSMT.
Gloucester Stage Company presents the Boston area premiere of Richard Strand's BEN BUTLER, a Union army general who was a settler of Gloucester's Bayview neighborhood, a presidential candidate, and the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.
There are a few slower moving moments in Tony Award winning (Book of Dear Evan Hansen) playwright Steven Levonson's work but there is plenty of pathos as well as lots of levity and laughter in IF I FORGET.
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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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Wicked Citizens Opera House (9/23-11/15) |
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Buena Vista Orchestra Emerson Colonial Theatre (10/08-10/08) |
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Rock of Ages North Shore Music Theatre (8/12-8/23) VIDEOS |
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Kristin Hersh Payomet Performing Arts Center (7/18-7/18) |
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Adia & Clora Snatch Joy Huntington Theatre (11/24-12/13) |
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Monty Python''s Spamalot Boch Center (10/06-10/11) |
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Margo Price - Wild At Heart Tour Payomet Performing Arts Center (9/03-9/03) |
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Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (7/30-8/23) |
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The Norwegians Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (9/04-10/04) |
