BWW Review: FAST COMPANY: The Art of the Con
Described as a theatrical crime caper, FAST COMPANY explores a major con gone wrong and digs into the dynamics of the family Kwan.
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BWW Review: YOURS, ANNE: Eventide's Momentous Ode to a Fallen Hero
The Eventide Theatre Company has made a bold choice in sharing Frank's story with a Cape Cod audience through means of a score depicting her feelings while fearfully secluded in the "Secret Annex," with certain lyrics molded from actual quotes made by the young prisoner.
BWW Review: RHINOCEROS: Collective Psychosis or The People's Choice?
The Suffolk University/Boston Playwrights' Theatre co-production of RHINOCEROS, newly adapted by Wesley Savick from Derek Prouse's translation, features a Boston setting, but maintains the themes of Eugene Ionesco's 1959 classic play from the Cold War era.
BWW Review: Brown Box Theatre and Icaro Theatro Presents a Series of Latin American Short Plays in FROM WATER TO DUST
Brown Box Theatre Project and Icaro Theatro presents Boxer Shorts: A Cycle of Short Plays.
BWW Review: There's No Place like the Academy Playhouse for THE WIZARD OF OZ
There is so much about the heartwarming nature complete with a simple lesson learned and the sheer magic involved in making that happen that have brought many to profess their love of The Wizard of Oz, which is, in essence, a wonderful story that tugs at the heartstrings ever so slightly.
BWW Review: CAKEWALK Lacking Nutritional Value
In a departure from its more substantial recent fare, Zeitgeist Stage Company offers up a sugary confection about a cake baking competition in a small Vermont town.
BWW Review: SORRY: An Unfortunate Title for Third Installment of APPLE FAMILY PLAYS
Stoneham Theatre stages the third installment in Richard Nelson's four-play series with the director, design team, and cast intact from the earlier entries.
BWW REVIEW: What's Scarier than George Orwell's 1984? Politics in 2016.
The horrific future depicted in George Orwell's cautionary tale '1984' feels that much more frightening in 2016 because so much of the oligarchical world predicted by the visionary author in his dystopian 1949 novel has come to fruition.
BWW REVIEW: Teen Dreams Are as Empty as the Calories in MILK LIKE SUGAR
There's not much hope for the girls at the center of MILK LIKE SUGAR, Kirsten Greenidge's Obie Award-winning play about teenagers seeking fulfillment through pregnancy.
BWW REVIEW: AN OCTOROON Takes Race Relations down the Rabbit Hole
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has assaulted the fourth wall and countless racial stereotypes in his funny and audacious new play AN OCTOROON.
BWW Review: Try Getting Over this Ogre of a Show at CCTC's SHREK
The Cape Cod Theatre Company, home of the Harwich Junior Theatre, brings a stunning production of Shrek: The Musical to a Cape Cod stage and does an absolutely fine job of making sure audiences will see all the wonder to be found in this show.
BWW Review: Can You Hear Me Now? Touch Performance Art Presents SEARCHING FOR SIGNAL
Identity and the search for it is a common thread that binds us.
BWW Review: TINKER TO EVERS TO CHANCE: You Gotta Have Heart
Merrimack Repertory Theatre hosts the regional premiere of Mat Smart's TINKER TO EVERS TO CHANCE, a play for die-hard baseball fans.
BWW Review: BACK THE NIGHT Clouded by Doubt
Boston Playwrights' Theatre mounts BACK THE NIGHT, Melinda Lopez's new play that explores violence against women on a college campus.
BWW REVIEW: PIPPIN Brings Its Magic Back to Boston
The extraordinary journey of the Broadway revival of PIPPIN began at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge a few years back, and now that triumphant Tony Award-winning musical, directed by Diane Paulus, is back in Boston via the national tour.
BWW Review: A Battle of Beliefs in Danai Gurira's THE CONVERT at Central Square Theatre
In a blackout we hear shouting.
BWW Review: Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal Together In A.R. Gurney's LOVE LETTERS
Storytelling is theatre in its' purest form, but a story can often become secondary or lost when faced with spectacle.
BWW Review: There's Something About Mary
New Repertory Theatre continues its third annual Next Rep Black Box Festival with Colm Toibin's THE TESTAMENT OF MARY, a controversial one-woman play that reimagines the life and attitudes of Mary some twenty years after the crucifixion of her son.
BWW REVIEW: A.R.T. Hooks Mark Rylance's NICE FISH Before NYC Run
If the homespun humor and quirky philosophizing that comes to you live from Lake Woebegone via A Prairie Home Companion warms you up on a cold winter's night, then NICE FISH is your cup of cocoa.
BWW REVIEWS: DISGRACED and VIOLET Kick Off 2016 Strongly in Boston
DISGRACED and VIOLET heat up the winter with power and grace as the Huntington Theatre Company and SpeakEasy Stage enter the second half of their 2015-2016 seasons with winners.
BWW Review: BISTANY'S MYSTERIES Choose-Your-Own Murder Mystery Comedy at ImprovBoston
When the author greeted the audience at the top of Bistany's Mysteries he explained that when he sat down to give us his latest novel, he realized suddenly he was staring at a partially blank page.
BWW Review: Merrimack Repertory Theatre Stages World Premiere of THE WHITE CHIP
MRT stages the first of three world premieres with Artistic Director Sean Daniels' play THE WHITE CHIP, a dark comedy about his own alcoholism and recovery.
BWW Review: SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM in Good Hands at Lyric Stage
There's Sondheim music galore playing at the Lyric Stage Company as Producing Artistic Director and recognized Sondheim expert Spiro Veloudos directs an octet of Boston musical theatre performers in SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM.
BWW Review: Who You Gonna Call? THE HOUSEKEEPER
Fresh Ink Theatre Company presents the inaugural production of Ginger Lazarus' THE HOUSEKEEPER at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
BWW Review: A Bit of Comedy and Conniving Seizes Audiences with DEATHTRAP at APA
Directed by Rich McKey, who brings his creative vision of what kind of world Levin's five characters should inhabit as they simultaneously create and avoid their own demise, Deathtrap is a joyride into the minds of maniacal people who think that their plans and intentions will be brought about not o
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Puppet Showplace Theater Presents: Word Play by Good Hearted Entertainment Uncommon Corner (8/08-8/08) |
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BETRAYAL Gloucester Stage Company (7/09-8/01) |
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FORTUNE FEIMSTER: TAKIN' CARE OF BISCUITS TOUR! Provincetown Town Hall (8/14-8/14) |
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Moulin Rouge! Boston Opera House (7/29-8/09) |
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JOHN DOE Payomet Performing Arts Center (9/01-9/01) |
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Valerie June Payomet Performing Arts Center (8/30-8/30) |
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Larry McCray Payomet Performing Arts Center (8/12-8/12) |
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CINDERELLA by The United European Ballet Company Symphony Hall (12/11-12/11) |
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Worcester Youth Orchestras Auditions: Travel to Europe Mechanics Hall (8/26-8/26) |
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A Christmas Carol North Shore Music Theatre (12/03-12/23) |