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Review: Sullivan Rep's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Shows Sondheim is Worth a Second Look
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Review: A Thrilling BLACK SWAN at American Repertory Theater
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Review: Emilio and Gloria Estefan Musical Will Have You ON YOUR FEET! in Beverly
Whether autobiographical like “Jersey Boys,” “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” and “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” or fictionalized like “Mamma Mia!,” jukebox musicals often rely on the drama of their source material as much as their familiar scores for success.
Review: EUREKA DAY is a Tempest in a Vaccination Teapot
But in playwright Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” – now being given a cleverly funny production by The Huntington at the Huntington Avenue Theatre through June 28 – they are also comic fodder for a trenchant story about a tempest over vaccination in a hyper-woke teacup.
Review: DRIVING MISS DAISY at Barrington Stage Company
Cast and Crew deliver a high-quality production that is both simple and sublime; historically accurate, topically relevant; and well worth seeing.
Review: Darren Criss Kicks Off New Concert Dates in Boston
What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH DARREN CRISS at Emerson Colonial Theatre?
Review: SELECTED SHORTS at The Adams Theater
Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight.
Review: JOHN & JEN at Berkshire Theatre Group
As BTG's Artistic Director, CEO Kate Maguire stated: 'Through moments of joy, heartbreak, humor and healing, JOHN & JEN explores the enduring connections between siblings, parents and children- the people who remain part of us across a lifetime.
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
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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.
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
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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
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Review: Lyric Stage Boston's Latest Is ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS
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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.
Review: Nothing to Protest in SUFFS
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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
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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
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