BWW Reviews: Ma and Ax Channel Beethoven at Tanglewood
Ma and Emanuel Ax performed all five Beethoven cello sonatas in one evening at Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Shed
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BWW Review: 'A New Argentina' Has Risen with Cape Rep's EVITA
When Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice came together to write Evita, they probably didn't realize how big a splash they would be making the realm of musical theater; with its dynamic and rather challenging score, its continuous demand for the sung word (trademark of many Lloyd Webber pieces) and
BWW Review: Let There Be No Prejudice Here
It is safe to say that Monomoy has done a spectacular job staging Austen's work: from the chosen cast, the beautiful period costumes and the way in which it just felt like the novel should feel, there is really nothing bad to say about this production.
BWW REVIEW: Audra McDonald Dominates WTF's A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
There's no mistaking who's in charge in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's crackling production of A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN now running through August 23.
BWW Reviews: Andris Nelsons Takes Command in Tanglewood Mahler 8
Subtitled "The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert" in homage to Bernstein
BWW Reviews: MOTHER OF THE MAID at Shakespeare & Company
Imagine: you're a peasant woman in 15th century France, and your teenage daughter has taken strange.
BWW Reviews: WONDERFUL TOWN: A Nice Place to Visit
Katie Anne Clark and Jennifer Ellis are dynamite as the dynamic Sherwood sisters in the Reagle Music Theatre production of WONDERFUL TOWN, an old-fashioned musical comedy with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
BWW Reviews: Majesty At Its Peak at Harwich Junior Theatre
As part of a very impressive sixty-forth summer season, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon makes its Cape Cod premiere with Harwich Junior Theater's current production…and what a clever idea it was to bring such a heartwarming story to its stage! Written by Grace Lin, adapted by Jeannine Coulombe a
BWW Reviews: A Trio of TALKING HEADS at Elements Theatre Company
Elements Theatre Company selected three of the 12 monologues in Alan Bennett's TALKING HEADS for their summer production which concluded its brief run this past weekend at Paraclete House at Rock Harbor in Orleans.
BWW Reviews: Monomoy's SPELLING BEE Spells Success!
What would happen if one were to switch the first few letters of "amazing" to form a new, exciting word that only certain minds could quickly figure out? Actually, who cares! As long as each of you knows the word's definition and what it implies, there can only be synonyms of the word used to descri
BWW Reviews: Tanglewood Celebrates 75 Years of Koussevitzky's Dream
The world's most gifted young music students study with esteemed members of the Boston Symphony
BWW Reviews: 'OH MY!' to Cape Playhouse's MY FAIR LADY
My Fair Lady is truly of the most perfect testaments of a musical success there ever was; from a plot filled with witty little criticisms to rather verbose songs about the triumphs of the human will, Lerner and Loewe's classic has captured the hearts of many since its premiere more than half a centu
BWW REVIEW: Who Could Ask for Anything More of Ogunquit's NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT?
You won't be slipped a Mickey Finn, but Maine's Ogunquit Playhouse will knock you off your feet with its 'delishious' production of NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT running through August 15.
BWW Reviews: A WONDROUS TALE Of GUYS AND THEIR DOLLS
The Chatham Drama Guild, established eighty-four years ago and boasting one of the only truly volunteer managed community theater groups on the Cape, continues its summer season with Guys and Dolls, the well-known tale of gamblers-by-trade Nathan Detroit, Sky Masterson and their 'dolls' in the midst
BWW REVIEW: Coolidge Ends Run in SAVING KITTY 8/2 in Cambridge
Stage, film and television star Jennifer Coolidge ends her acclaimed run in SAVING KITTY at the Nora Theatre Company in Cambridge, Mass.
BWW Reviews: A Knight of a Night at APA'S MAN OF A LA MANCHA
What is interesting about Quixote, though, is that he is not a knight at all, but a man soon considered by the masses to be delusional - a complete lunatic to believe that knights are still in existence and can be of some heroic use amongst men when such people seem hopeless causes for which to figh
BWW Reviews: THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM: Same Dance, Different Day
Superlative acting, intense staging, and timeless themes are the hallmarks of THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, Enda Walsh's 2010 Obie Award-winning play now receiving its New England Premiere at Gloucester Stage Company under the direction of Interim Artistic Director Robert Walsh.
BWW REVIEW: BELLS ARE RINGING Forces the Comedy in the Berkshires
Berkshire Theatre Group's revival of BELLS ARE RINGING starring Broadway's charming husband and wife duo Graham Rowat and Kate Baldwin can be described in two words: sensory overload.
BWW Reviews: COLOSSAL Blurs the Line Between Sport and Art
Three summers ago, Company One Theatre converted the Roberts Studio Theatre into an authentic wrestling arena for its acclaimed production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Kristoffer Diaz's satire of the faux violence and bright lights of the show biz world of professional wrestling.
BWW Reviews: Get the Wine! Cape Playhouse Presents WOMEN IN JEOPARDY
This is one show for which it is imperative that someone yells "Don't forget the wine!" so that each character is mentally prepared for what mess is to come.
BWW Reviews: Magic Really Exists in HJT'S ALADDIN
Ever since I attended my first production at the wonderful Harwich Junior Theater a few months ago, I have consistently been amazed by what has appeared on that stage then and thereafter.
BWW Reviews: Monomoy Theater's LEND ME A TENOR
Directed by Francesca James, Lend Me a Tenor is beyond brought - it is more like jolted to life in Monomoy's current production of Ken Ludwig's Tony-winning comedy, and to say that it is anything but brilliant this time around is a severe understatement.
BWW REVIEW: Stellar Cast Wanders OFF THE MAIN ROAD in Williamstown
Small-town life is anything but a picnic in William Inge's newly discovered, previously unproduced play OFF THE MAIN ROAD currently receiving its decades-delayed world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires.
BWW Reviews: HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN: A NEW MUSICAL PLAY
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents the East Coast Premiere of HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN: A NEW MUSICAL PLAY at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre.
BWW Reviews: DROWSY We Are Not!
Now, to continue in the tradition of giving each of us the theatrical experience we truly relish and yearn for this time of year (if not always!), the Playhouse brings a stellar production of five-time Tony Award Winner The Drowsy Chaperone to a Cape Cod audience, and let me just put it out there no
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Midsummer Dreamers Tina Packer Playhouse (9/01-9/03) |
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Circus & The Bard: The Next Chapter. Tina Packer Playhouse (7/16-7/26) |
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Unorthodox Huntington Theatre (4/29-5/30) |
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Rendezvous with Rachel Revere™ Marshfield Council on Aging (7/28-7/28) |
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Koe Wetzel & Shane Smith and The Saints Leader Bank Pavilion (8/19-8/19) |
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Jagged Little Pill The Company Theatre (7/24-8/16) |
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John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig 25th Anniversary Movie Tour Boch Center (10/01-10/01) |
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BETRAYAL Gloucester Stage Company (7/09-8/01) |
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Oh, Mary! Emerson Colonial Theatre (12/21-1/03) |
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The Borromeo: Luminous Beauty Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (8/06-8/06) |