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Review: THE ELEPHANT MAN at Berkshire Theatre Group
The production is uniformly strong in all respects as is the cast. Even the unseasonably cold and damp weather during the opening weekend helped to set the proper atmosphere. Standout performances are delivered by Laura Shatkus, Harry Smith, and Michael Wartella. The latter incorporating subtle cont...
Review: Chuang Stage & Company One Theatre's LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT
History is being made on Broadway this season, with seven performers of Filipino descent simultaneously bringing luster to the stage and ticket buyers to the box office....
Review: The Huntington's THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA is Sweepingly Cinematic
The 1962 feature film “Light in the Piazza” was shot on location at the Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the Via Veneto and Roma Ostiense railway station in Rome, making its technicolor splendor a hard act to follow when the story, based on a 1960 novella by Elizabet...
Review: FOUNDING F%!#ERS: THE STORY OF ETHAN ALLEN AND BENEDICT ARNOLD at Greater Boston Stage Company
And if you’re too busy to take your pencils back to school, and maybe not the biggest stickler for accuracy, then you may want to head to Stoneham for “Founding F%!#ers: The Story of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold,” a play by Conor Casey being given its world premiere at Greater Boston Stage ...
Review: Cynthia Erivo Brings Her Star Power to OPENING NIGHT AT POPS
Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops set the mood for the recent Opening Night at Pops, featuring the luminous Cynthia Erivo, with a rhythmic “The Club” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” and the rousing “Gotta Dance” medley from “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.”...
Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company's JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
And when it comes to the humble Harlem hair salon in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, now in its New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage in the Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, through May 31, make that something to marvel at....
Review: Make a Reservation at THE SPITFIRE GRILL
The musical “The Spitfire Grill” – with book and music by James Valcq and lyrics by the late Fred Alley, who also co-wrote the book – perfectly captures the small-town ethos of its rural Gilead, Wisconsin, setting....
Review: North Shore Music Theatre's THE SHARK IS BROKEN Looks Inside Jaws
In the summer of 1975, moviegoers flocked to theaters to see “Jaws,” the story of the hunt for a man-eating great white shark attacking beachgoers at a summer vacation spot, making the picture the first summer blockbuster....
Review: Sondheim Musical is in Good COMPANY at Sullivan Rep
Over 50 years since its original Broadway production had its out-of-town tryout at Boston’s Shubert Theatre, the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, with book by George Furth, has had three revivals....
Review: North American Tour of SHUCKED Serves Up Sweet Corn in Boston
Indeed, when those one-liners and puns are not only corny but all about corn, you just may want to surrender and let the laughs burst like Jiffy Pop, as they are on the North American tour of “Shucked,” the musical being presented by Broadway in Boston at Citizens Opera House now through April 2...
Review: Central Square Theater and Front Porch Arts Collective's HER PORTMANTEAU Packs a Lot Into Fraught Family Meeting
In “Sojourners,” the first play in the nine-part Ufot Family Cycle by first-generation Nigerian American playwright Mfoniso Udofia – presented last fall by the Huntington – Boston audiences met Abasiama, a hardworking Nigerian living in Houston, Texas, in 1978 and working toward a degree in ...
Review: American Repertory Theater's NIGHT SIDE SONGS Shows Power of Community and Music
What did our critic think of NIGHT SIDE SONGS at American Repertory Theater?...
Review: Greater Boston Stage Company gets everything right with THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
What did our critic think of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Greater Boston Stage Company?...
Review: Harbor Stage Serves Up a Tasty MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ
Written by and starring comedic actor and playwright Wallace Shawn and avant garde theater director André Gregory, and based on their lives, the 1981 film is the story of two old friends who share dinner at a New York bistro while revisiting their ongoing debate about the life of an artist and the ...
Review: The Huntington's THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is Just That
The first production of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux’s “The Triumph of Love” – performed in Paris in 1732 – was no box-office bonanza. Indeed, it closed after just six performances, with audiences apparently finding distasteful the story of a princess seducing not only a young ma...
Review: No One Should Pass by Emerson Colonial Theatre's PARADE
What did our critic think of PARADE at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...
Review: SpeakEasy Stage's Splendid A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE is Paul Daigneault's Fitting Farewell to the Company He Founded
What did our critic think of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?...
Review: 14TH ANNUAL 10 X 10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at Barrington Stage Company
BSC’s 2025 10X10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL offers plenty of humor along with moments that will have audience members saying hmmh, topical relevant content, and something for just about everyone....
Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL Makes Impressive Return to Merrimack Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL at Merrimack Repertory Theatre?...
Review: Excellence Abounds in Actors' Shakespeare Project's Finely-Tuned Production of AUGUST WILSON'S THE PIANO LESSON
With its magnificent mounting of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” at Hibernian Hall in Nubian Square, Roxbury, through February 23, Actors’ Shakespeare Project has given Boston theatergoers the first must-see production of 2025....
Review: Company One Theatre's HAUNTED Uses Humor To Make Case for Indigenous Land Acknowledgments
What did our critic think of HAUNTED at Company One Theatre?...
Review: Re-Imagined PETER PAN Takes Flight at Citizens Opera House
Theater fans have a long and affectionate history with the musical “Peter Pan,” and the J.M. Barrie play, “Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” and subsequent novelization, “Peter and Wendy,” of the classic story of the little boy who can fly that inspired it....
Review: CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY Comes To Moving Life At Lyric Stage Boston
What did our critic think of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY at Lyric Stage Boston?...
Review: A NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION WITH BERNADETTE PETERS AND THE BOSTON POPS
What did BroadwayWorld's critic think of A NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION WITH BERNADETTE PETERS AND THE BOSTON POPS at Boston Symphony Hall? Read the review here!...
Review: American Repertory Theater's DIARY OF A TAP DANCER is Illuminating Look at Dance History
Get a ticket, if you still can, to her illuminating and immensely entertaining new play “Diary of a Tap Dancer” – being given its world premiere production by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge through January 4, 2025 – and you’ll never forget it....
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