BOSTON THEATER REVIEWS

I attended a show at Improv Boston, a company that provides a variety of comedy shows, including improv, sketches, and stand-up. Currently, they have a very special project in the works: B.U.M.P, or Boston's Unscripted Musical Project, a musical show completely composed on the spot....

Hub Theatre Company of Boston presents the Boston premiere of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE under the direction of Paula Plum. Music is evocative, but it turns out that clothing serves the same function for many women. Writers and sisters Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron convey the important connection bet...

Those who love theatre that is fresh and new are finding their surprises at the nine year old Berkshrie Fringe....

Heather Lind as Eliza and Robert Sean Leonard as Professor Higgins shine in this five act play that is George Bernard Shaw's most popular....

With Kate Burton as 'mother' the Williamstown Theatre Festival stages a fluid though viscous Hapgood, Tom Stoppard's complicated send up of James Bond, spy stories and particle physics....

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of Two Gentlemen of Verona, revamped in the style of Rat Pack Las Vegas, is bright and showy with neon colors, flashing lights and sporadic musical numbers, and is playing free in the Boston Common....

The timeless musical OKLAHOMA! is on stage again in the Berkshires of Massachusetts....

Stephen Sater's world premiere play isn't setting the world on fire at Chester, but strong cast keeps the tinder lit...

Christmas is never easy, even if you are King. With three sons and continually plotting wife, there is no rest for the mighty....

A new season of plays on the theme of "Writes of Passage" blooms at Gloucester Stage Company with the 2007 Tony Award-winning Best Musical SPRING AWAKENING. The groundbreaking rock musical about adolescent love in an era of repression resonates, thanks to sensitive direction by Eric C. Engel and a f...

It may be an economy sized production, but it fills the bill as one of the funniest musical comedies ever conceived. Williamstown Theatre Festival goes all out to deliver a full course of music, theatre and dance for this venerable joyride....

The Cape Playhouse in Dennis Village is offering a bouquet of smiles for a summer's night with the world premiere of David Zippel's tribute show, THEY'RE PLAYING HIS SONGS: THE MUSIC OF MARVIN HAMLISCH, honoring both the man and his music. This bittersweet labor of love features the virtuoso piano a...

As a one-man show, the Boston premiere of playwright Bernard McMullan's JIMMY TITANIC sinks or swims on the talents of Tir Na Theatre Company's Producing Artistic Director Colin Hamell. Leave the lifeboats tethered, for it's full-steam ahead with his tour de force performance in New Repertory's blac...

The Theresa Rebeck fable about the woman in black who turns lives upside down is on stage again, with some tweaks from the playwright....

Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop homage to home is enjoying an extended run at the SpeakEasy Stage in Boston through June 30....

When the discussion moves beyond making money to the price that is paid for dismantling a company for profit, the full horror and shallowness of the practice is exposed. Never has a 25 year old play been so relevant....

The Cabaret Series continues to bring local artists and new songs to contemporary audiences at the Central Square Theater. Boston-based triple threats Cheo Bourne, Jennifer Ellis, Brian Richard Robinson, and Kami Smith look and sound great, backed by a trio of talented musicians....

Torn from the headlines, MUCKRAKERS is based on (but not about) Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and revealing government secrets, public privacy....

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston celebrates its 45th anniversary season with Fosse-style high kicks, hip thrusts, and splayed hands in Director/Choreographer Gerry McIntyre's delightful production of the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. Sara Gettelfinger, Angie Schworer, a...

The full Bernstein score honors ON THE TOWN, not the truncated movie version, on stage with a great cast, stunning choreography and a fresh new approach under the artful hand of John Rando, director....

Sir Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy is a classic example of British farce, with abundant physical humor, extreme politeness, mistaken identities, and hidden passions. The story concerns a sculptor who aims to impress his fiance's father and a potential buyer by borrowing his neighbor's fancy furniture;...

When three veteran actors from Shakespeare & Company set out to play 'Heroes,' there's no lack of excitement on stage, and even a little warfare....

Maria Callas was one of the great prima donnas of Opera, and in Terrence McNally's Master Class she is played by the formidable actor, Annette Miller at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA....

THESE SHINING LIVES tells the important story of a 1928 groundbreaking case which established legal precedents for labor safety standards still in effect decades later. Five factory workers, dubbed the 'Radium Girls,' sued their employer after contracting life-threatening radium poisoning while pain...

Sleeping Weazel, whose mantra is "making different possible", is currently presenting their own abstract piece, Real Realism at the Factory Theatre. In the piece, five strangers are stuck together in a windowless room, apparently unaware of their reason for being so, and discuss their own lives and ...