BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET: Capturing the Zeitgeist
The Huntington Theatre Company digs into the William Shakespeare canon and pulls out a plum written more than four centuries ago.
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BWW Review: ONCE: Guy and Girl Extend Their Stay at SpeakEasy Stage
Once upon a time, a guy and a girl meet on the streets of Dublin, bond over their shared passion for music, enrich each other's lives, and find the way forward to the separate paths that their lives were meant to follow.
BWW Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY: A Great Escape
THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY can make you forget your troubles and get happy for a couple of hours.
BWW Review: ENDLINGS World Premiere at American Repertory Theater
With North Korea so much in the news these days, the American Repertory Theater is offering the opportunity to take a virtual trip to that part of the world with its production of Celine Song's new play, ENDLINGS.
BWW Review: BIRDY: Timeless Story of War and Friendship Achieves Liftoff at CommShakes
Pigeon keepers are an interesting and unique, albeit diminishing, subset of humans, and within that group is a subset, presumably small, of people who identify with the birds.
BWW Review: World Premiere of Lauren Gunderson's THE HEATH at Merrimack Rep
Patrons of the Merrimack Repertory Theatre are quite familiar with playwright Lauren Gunderson, named the most produced playwright in America by American Theatre Magazine in 2017, most recently for the much-lauded MRT December production of MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY which she co-authored
BWW Review: SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODY National Tour Extends at Huntington Theatre
Needham native Gerard Alessandrini has been practicing the craft of parody professionally for nearly four decades, ever since FORBIDDEN BROADWAY debuted in New York in 1982.
BWW Review: THE LITTLE FOXES: Lillian Hellman's Classic Bares Its Fangs At Lyric Stage
Eighty years after the Broadway premiere of Lillian Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES, the Lyric Stage Company production, under the direction of Scott Edmiston, demonstrates that the classic American drama has lost none of its punch.
BWW Review: 10X10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at Barrington Stage Company Serves Up A Theatrical Smorgasbord In The Midst of Winter.
There is something for everyone in this offering.
BWW Review: THE CHRISTIANS: Come To Jesus At Chelsea Theatre Works
THE CHRISTIANS by Lucas Hnath takes us into the world of an evangelical megachurch, a place that holds a certain amount of mystery for those of us who practice different religions or lack belief in any faith.
BWW Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK - THE MUSICAL: From Brainiacs to Musical Maniacs
SCHOOL OF ROCK - THE MUSICAL is bursting with kids, all of them bursting with talent.
BWW Review: STILL STANDING: A MUSICAL SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR LIFE'S CATASTROPHES
Anita Hollander lost her left leg to cancer in 1977 and channeled her experiences and musical theater skills into writing and performing a solo show, STILL STANDING: A MUSICAL SURIVAL GUIDE FOR LIFE'S CATASTROPHES.
BWW Review: World Premiere BARE STAGE: A Play for the Zeitgeist
The world premiere of Boston playwright Michael Walker's BARE STAGE lands smack in the middle of the zeitgeist, surrounded by the swirling maelstrom of #MeToo and a building movement within the theater arts community to pay attention to the needs of actors when they are at their most vulnerable.
BWW Review: BEDLAM'S PYGMALION: The Unsinkable Eliza Doolittle
Bedlam returns to Central Square theater for the third time in five seasons, fresh from a critically-acclaimed production Off-Off-Broadway.
BWW Review: WHO IS EARTHA MAE? World Premiere at Bridge Repertory Theater
In one of the most mesmerizing performances in recent memory, Jade Wheeler answers the question with a stunning interpretation of Eartha Kitt, both as an artist and as a person.
BWW Review: SLOW FOOD World Premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre
You might go home hungry, but you'll have your fill of belly laughs at Wendy MacLeod's SLOW FOOD now having its World Premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell.
BWW Review: HEARTLAND: What's Going On?
HEARTLAND conjures up an image of amber waves of grain and purple mountains majesties.
BWW Review: Manual Cinema's THE END OF TV: Silhouettes on the Shade
Around this time last year, Chicago-based theatre troupe Manual Cinema made its debut appearance at ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage with a five-day run of ADA/AVA.
BWW Review: THE WOLVES: Empowered By The Pack
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama is a compelling production at the Lyric Stage Company with an all-female team of director, designers, and actors.
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2: Nora Drops In, Torvald Drops Jaw
Nearly a century and a half after Nora Helmer walked out on her husband Torvald and their three children in Henrik Ibsen's 1879 classic A DOLL'S HOUSE, playwright Lucas Hnath proposes a well-thought reply to the speculation of what became of her in A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2.
BWW Review: Boston Opera House Welcomes CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY National Tour
The Boston premiere of the US National Tour of Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY opened at the Boston Opera House this week, just a year after the Broadway production closed.
BWW Review: Sounds of Silence Resonate in SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS
SpeakEasy Stage Company presents Boston premiere of Bess Wohl's 2015 Off-Broadway comedy with a stellar cast of locals under the masterful direction of M.
BWW Review: BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES: Conversations and Coiffures
BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES takes you on a cultural exchange trip across the continent of Africa, with a side journey to the UK, to meet and listen in on communities of men who go to the barber shop for much more than a shave and a haircut.
BWW Review: WINTER PEOPLE: Burn It Down
Playwright Laura Neill is an angry person who channels her fiery passion onto the page and, ultimately, onto the stage.
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Summer, 1976 The Unicorn Theatre (10/07-10/31) |
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Golden Girls The Laughs Continue Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/28-11/28) VIDEOS |
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The 2026 Boston Pops Holiday Tour The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (12/04-12/04) |
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Godspell Queer Theatre Company, Inc. (8/21-8/30) PHOTOS |
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Rachel Sumner and Travelling Light at Harmony on the Green Harmony on the Green (5/01-5/01) |
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LOOK AT ME NOW Josephines Cabaret Club Cafe (10/11-10/11) |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/28-11/28) VIDEOS |
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Beetlejuice Jr. The Company Theatre (11/06-11/08) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (All audience members regardless of age must have a ticket. Children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult Emerson Colonial Theatre (10/27-10/27) |