BWW Review: Boston Playwrights' Theatre Concludes Season of New Plays With DEAD HOUSE
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BWW Review: SYLVIA: The Lady Is A Tramp
Theater UnCorked drains the bottle of its inaugural season this weekend with a fully-staged production of SYLVIA, prolific playwright A.
BWW Review: Zeitgeist Stage Company Cements Its Imprint With World Premiere of TRIGGER WARNING
The world may end with a whimper, but Zeitgeist Stage Company goes out with a bang, presenting the world premiere of Jacques Lamarre's TRIGGER WARNING.
BWW REVIEW: Testosterone Fuels Riveting TAP DOGS at Hanover Theatre in Worcester
There are times when the percussion in TAP DOGS, the testosterone-fueled tap dance extravaganza now at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester through April 14, is so penetrating that your diaphragm literally pulses in rhythm to the beat.
BWW Review: A BRONX TALE: Standin' On The Corner
The North American tour of A BRONX TALE doo-wops its way into the Citizens Bank Opera House through April 14th as part of the 2018-2019 Lexus Broadway In Boston Season.
BWW Review: EXTREMITIES - Also Known As Theatre
In 1982, Extremities, by playwright William Mastrosimone, premiered at Westside Arts in New York starring Susan Sarandon, and later the play was adapted into a movie starring Farrah Fawcett, the final actress to play the role of Marjorie in the Broadway production.
BWW Review: World Premiere THE HAUNTED LIFE: Kerouac's Back in Lowell
It's a different time and a different war, but the protagonist in this coming of age story faces many of the same challenges as would a young person today.
BWW Review: New England Premiere of CARDBOARD PIANO at New Repertory Theatre
What does God want, and who truly knows? Who gets to decide what is right? These are just a couple of the questions raised in Hansol Jung's wrenching new play, CARDBOARD PIANO, in its New England premiere at New Repertory Theatre.
BWW Review: NOT MEDEA: Motherhood Gone Awry
Playwright Allison Gregory combines myth and magic to craft a non-linear narrative about betrayal, death, motherhood, and the darkest tragedy.
BWW Review: ONEGIN: Russian Romantic Collusion
The Greater Boston Stage Company presents the U.
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.
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.
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Bat Boy: The Musical Umbrella Arts (9/25-11/08) |
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Covenant SpeakEasy Stage Company (9/25-10/17) |
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The Sound of Music Boch Center Wang Theatre (11/17-11/22) |
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An evening with LaChanze Berklee Performance Center (11/01-11/01) |
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BOUNCERS by John Godber Modern Theatre At Suffolk University (10/01-10/24) |
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Cheyenne Jackson Shalin Liu Performance Center (10/18-10/18) |
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Rocky Horror Show The Company Theatre (10/02-10/18) |
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Summer, 1976 The Unicorn Theatre (10/07-10/31) |
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CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM: THE MUSICAL The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (10/28-10/28) |
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Little Bear Ridge Road SpeakEasy Stage Company (1/29-2/20) |
